We have learnt that during the process of constructing our product that the technology we use is very vital to making our product successful. There were a few problems that occurred with the camera equipment, for example, when filming the killer washing his hands in the sink, we originally had thought to set the tripod up next to the sink but unfortunately there was not enough room for us to do so. The problem that we came across was that if we placed the tripod the other side of the sink we could have a steady shot, but when in the process of doing this the lighting had been a lot darker than wanted. We ended up resolving this problem through shooting the scene on a handheld shot, , on the side of the sink that we'd originally planned to shoot on, even though this was not steady to begin with we resolved this with a function on our editing software which increases the smoothness of the shot.
A minor problem we came across was that when we went to our teacher about putting the News Reporter scene onto disc we had the wrong disc, we had a DVD+R disc and we needed a DVD-R disc. We overcame this problem as our teacher luckily had a clean disc spare for us to use. Another minor problem we came across was that when we went to take the cameras from the Media Suite they didn’t have enough charge for us to film the News Reporter Scene; we overcome this problem by having to quickly charge the camera for half hour. In the end, it was fine and we learnt that when we had finished with the camera we would make sure to charge it straight afterwards. A major problem we found was when we put all of our shots onto the Mac to start our editing we found that some of our shots were a little too dark, we turned up the brightness and tweaked a few things and the outcome was better than we'd imagined.
We used certain equipment that enhanced our film; an example is when we had to put the News Reporter scene onto a DVD-R disc, this enhanced our film as by using the Mac we had the opportunity to put this footage onto a disc. Other equipment that enhanced our film was finding 'loyalty free' music sound effects for the radio tuning which made it sounds more like a news report which would be heard via radio. Other equipment that enhanced our film was the tripod when filming the News Reporter scene, made the filming very still and professional making this more believable to the audience that it was actually filmed in a studio by more advanced professionals.
I have learnt that editing is the most time consuming element of our project. When editing we decided to use iMovie as it was a lot easier and we found that we didn’t need all the extras Final Cut Express offers. Unlike other groups we didn’t need split screen or other types of shots in our film opening, we didn’t want to overcomplicate matters, we decided to stick to our original idea by using the transitions and the shots that we’d discussed. Additionally, I learnt that by layering soundtracks in our film opening in scenes gives more of an atmosphere, as you can hear in our film opening we have different soundtracks that are used to give the piece more of an ambience. We found all of this very useful in creating our overall mise-en-scene for our film opening.
We encountered one problem during the editing process, this was that we wanted our title, which read ‘What you are about to see is based on true events’, to have an effect on it as though it was being typed at the time that the audience were reading it on the screen. We couldn’t find an effect that would do this, we resolved this problem by doing each word separately, then changing the fade in and outs on the words so that it was continuous and so it looked more professional, this was very time consuming, however when done it was how we wanted it. Things we done wrong, was filming the last shot in the room that we'd done our previous scenes in, we found that it was too dark and if I could go back I would have chosen a different location, however the first scenes were how we had organised them to look.
I think that in lesson we all put in our ideas and how the film was going to work, discussing the storyboard and planning out the whole filming process. At the beginning of our main task everyone was very enthusiastic about the work and we were sharing out the work equally, however, getting further into the task and planning and research work increasing you could see by blog posts that others were getting a lot more work to do than others. We were starting to notice when we were giving each other certain posts to do it wasn’t getting done and then others were getting extra work through others not getting them done. Everyone knew what was happening, we all got filming schedules and when editing sessions were so each person in the group was informed. Overall, I don’t think we struggled majorly, if we came across a problem, it got fixed and moved on to the next stage.
Blogger was easy and very useful to use, the best part of it was that we never forgot a post; if we were told to upload a post on something, we would title it, write information below the title on what we had to do and then it would be saved as a draft and later be completed, so that we would not forget, we would then put the names in the drafts of who’s job it was to complete that post, although this was helpful sometimes people in our group did not finish them. Blogger was easy to keep track of our work and understand what was published and what wasn’t, the problem was that even if we put it in chronological order if we then went to edit that post everything would come out of its order and be harder to organise. Overall it was useful to use.
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