Technologies used in the process of constructing our film

opening.Ryan. A. Henson

IntroductionDuring all the three stages through out the production of our film opening, the technology we used became the most vital factor above all else. Without it we wold not have been able to complete the three production stages of our finished media product.

Pre Production

Pre ProductionBefore starting to craft our film opening, I needed to conduct some research into it. I found that the most effective way of doing this was by using YouTube to research other film openings to get a feel of how to approach this project. YouTube was full of small time film makers uploading their content trying to get noticed, however these were not all just small time film makers. Some film openings were very impressive in how they used the characters and camerawork to convey a hidden meaning. I tried to use such conventions and techniques shown in these real media products into my on film opening. Using YouTube allowed me to see other independent film makers positive and negative aspects of their product, meaning I could develop mine based on this.

Pre ProductionOne of the most important aspects to our pre production was creating our scripts. Microsoft office word allowed us to do this very efficiently, by saving all of our documented scripts in one place digitally. Meaning we could not lose them like we could if we had them, in the form of hard copy, on paper. Word is simple but effective and offers a large range of features if needed, overall there is very little negative things to point out about Microsoft word. We experienced no trouble with using this programme for scripting at all.

Pre ProductionThe most vital part through out the three stages of the production of our product was blogger. We constantly uploaded and updated blog tasks on blogger so that We were all connected during production, we could feed off each other for ideas, concepts and conventions being used in our different film openings. We used blogger as it is simple and easy to get the hang of, it is also very cost effective as it is free to create an account and upload to blogger. All we need is access to the internet, not even a computer or laptop, I was able to upload to my blog via my smartphone which was extremely helpful when I needed to update my blog but was away form my laptop.

Production

ProductionThe camera was extremely important to the production of our film opening, we chose to use the Samsung HD Camcorder with 52x optical zoom. This camera provided us with a good quality for money image and we experienced no troubles when using it for any of the scenes, no data recorded was lost or got corrupted. The zoom feature on this camera allowed us to capture a variety of shots and scenes, from a panning overhead view of the victim to a chase sequence.

Production

The tripod was important when needing the camera to be still and level, we had little scenes of this description. However when we did need scenes as such the tripod came in very handy. The tripod we used came equipped with a spirit level which allowed us to make sure that the camera was still and ready to record when on an uneven surface. This became surprisingly much more useful than we had previously expected, the ground in the woodland area we shot our product was very uneven so it came in handy more times than not. Helping to perfect the quality of the final product being produced.

Post Production

Post productionPhotoshop was used in order to create our company production logo, special tools like the “Burn Tool” were used in order to touch up some of the areas, as well as the magic wand tool, which allowed us to cut out parts of an image very quickly. The “A” tool (text) let me apply the special font onto the image, then we used the “drag” tool to apply special leaks and smudges onto the text. Photoshop allowed us to create a logo very quickly, this meant we had more time to spend editing our film opening.

Post ProductionSony Vegas Pro 13 was used in order to our film opening. all of different our angles were put onto the “File Explorer” and from there we used the preview box on the middle to see what clip is from what angle. This saved us a lot of time that we used on our other blog tasks. We have applied an effect onto each clip, these effects were:

- Black White (17%)

- Color Correction

- “Night” effect

- Color curves

- Zoom

- Motion blur