Friday 3 July 2015

Using conventions from real media texts Question 1

Post-Production Question 1a

Research & Planning Question 1a

Creativity Question 1a

Digital Technology Question 1a

Blogger - Allowed us all to have access to our planning and research and it was safe from getting lost.

Nikon D-7000 Digital Camera - + Focus pull where we drew the audiences attention to the protagonists hands breaking free to show them clearly that he is about to escape, and him rubbing his hands in pain to emphasise how tight his hands were tied and the poor conditions he was in. It also allowed us to successfully shoot HD quality shots in low key lighting (pictured below), which previous camera's could not do as they would be pixelated in the dark.

















GarageBand - We used GarageBand to create the 'drone'/music for our film, which was vital in creating/building the tension in the final product. Creating our own soundtrack allowed us to escape copyright infringement and create exactly what we wanted.


SoundFlower - We had to download and use Soundflower to internally record our 'drone' in real time as we couldn't record the drone while adjusting the settings.  This is how we created the drone.



YouTube - Putting our film on YouTube allowed us to embed it into our blog. It also allowed us to get audience feedback to make last minute final changes and use in our evaluation.

Final Cut Pro - Obviously, FCP was a pivotal part of the creation of our final film. The editing process was entirely carried out on FCP and it was smoother and quicker than the software that we used for the Prelim task (Windows Movie Maker). We also got the sound effects that we used in the torture scene (Punches, American football contact sound effects to sound like punches in the stomach, door opening) and the video effects (the flashes and fade to white, the digital clock in the bottom left corner in the London Waterloo scene).