What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Nikon DSLR

To film our scenes we used a Nikon DSLR camera which was very good quality so we also used it to take still pictures for our montage opening which we were originally going to use however, we found that it didn’t fit so we eliminated that idea after I made a rough idea of how we wanted.

To ensure that what we filmed wasn't shaky, we used a tripod as well as a dolly to film the tracking shots of our character walking out the house and down the road. We used the tripod for every bit of filming we did apart from filming the clock in the science lab which we found that was a mistake because although it was filmed for approximately a second, it was still quite shaky. This is an example of something we could have done differently.

iPhone and social media We used our phones, in particular, we created a Whatsapp group chat in order to keep organised with each other and to discuss our ideas and times in which we were going to meet up and also discuss what the weather was going to be and whether it was suitable to film. We also used my phone to record the voice over in the opening of our film.

We also used a phone as a prop in our film opening to illustrate the fact that the girls are communicating through messages in order to make sure that they are on time for their revenge plan. We changed the name of our contact on the actors phones to Tiffany in order to symbolise that the protagonist was trying to get in touch with her posy.

Other use of social media

We used survey monkey to create a survey which we could ask our friends and family to answer so we could receive a wide range of answers from different age groups and both male and female. The results we received helped us to decide on the plot of our opening and the name of our title.

We also shared the link to our opening on social media such as facebook and twitter in order to receive good feedback on what we could improve and what people liked about the film.

iMac and final cut pro We used the iMac as well as final cut pro to edit the film opening and add all the shots together, deciding which shots we needed to do again if they didn’t fit or didn’t reach the standard we hoped.

During our editing we realised that all the takes we shot weren’t long enough to reach the expected time. This meant we needed to think of new ideas and quickly decide on how and when we were going to shoot them. For example the ending of our opening we had to film the shots of Hayley running down the stairs.