Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process

of constructing this product

Calvin Chohan 1042: WhiteAshley Goodall 2251: Blue

Elliot Sears 1185: GreenHimmet Bahra 1251: Purple

Research and Planning: Slide Share

Slideshare was used primarily to upload all research notes which were done on PowerPoint on to the blog, the reason we used slideshare is because it allows us to upload the PowerPoint and embed it so it can be seen on the blog.

Research and Planning: Youtube

Youtube was a big help in both research and planning, this is due to youtube having a large variety of videos we were able to watch other OTS’s and gain more knowledge on our genre, inspiration and to compare. We also used youtube for tutorials in editing to add effects

Construction: Leave Colour

As our OTS was black, white and red the leave color tool allowed us to create the effect by enhancing the red and make the rest of the clip black and white

Construction: Opacity

The opacity tool enabled us to fade in and fade out text and scenes. Opacity is generally visibility with 100% fully visible and 0% being visible.

Evaluations: Slide Share

When it comes to the evaluation, we will use sildeshare to upload any pieces we have done on PowerPoint.

Embedding the slide to upload to the blog

Research and planning: Art of the Title

Art of the title is a free website with a very large range of film openings covering all genres, even games. It features new film titles and classic titles. This is useful for comparing modern film opening to old ones and how they have changed over time. Another thing that makes Art of the title so useful is that for each film opening it shows how the developers made it step by step. This helped use plan ideas to create a film opening in any style, symbolic, linear or nonlinear.

The way Art of the Title helped us during research was by looking at a lot film openings with the same genre as our film opening, Slasher. How the conventions were used, what credits and style and how the narrative was shown. If it wasn't for this our film would not be what it is today.

Research and planning: Netflix

Netflix is a global site where you can watch entire films or TV series instantly from all genres. The cost of Netflix is 5.99 pound a month. There is an option where we could see all the horror films Netflix had to offer, this was extremely useful for our research.

From the use of Netflix it allowed us to see what genres used what type of credits, the style size and color. We learnt from this research that Slasher film openings have plain and normally in a white credits with a fade effect.

Construction: Camera

During the filming of our Slasher film opening I used my personal camera, a Canon 700D. The image of this camera is really sharp image of 18 megapixel CMOS. This camera has many useful features such as, great low light shots, powerful processing, 1080p movies, corrects best exposure for shooting and creative framing.

From filming I have learnt and developedcamera work skill. Firstly I improved my framing skill with opening framing and closed framing shots of different weapons. Secondly I learnt how to focus pull with control to emphasize the sharpness of weapons. Lastly I recognized effective angles to film to make the clip more interesting the target audience.

Construction: Tripod

With the use of the tripod it allows use to show good control of the camera. It prevented us from having shaky shots and creating blur. Also it allowed use to film in a wide range of different shots , pan, tracking, low, high, and 360 shot.

Without the use of the tripod, our film will not be successful as it is today. An example is that it allowed us to film pan such as when our killer looks over all his weapons and when our victim is reavled.

Evaluation: Prezi

Prezi is a website presentation tool where you can present presentations to in a easy to use format.

Prezi allowed my group and myself to present our ideas, plan and research in a easy and clear way.

Research and Planning: Timetoast

We used timetoast for our blog and we used it to show when we are going to film and edit, it has all of the dates on there in a timeline so it doesn’t make it complicated. It made it a lot easier to plan ahead so we could be prepared and get a lot done quicker.

Research and Planning: GoogleGoogle helped use research all of the things that we will need

to include into the OTS such as what kind of location, props and make up. This told us everything we needed to know, it has hugely benefited us because it helped us get a lot more done and understand the sub genre a lot better.

Construction: Black and white

We used the black and white effect throughout are whole OTS and this was to create a nice effect on the OTS and it made it look darker and it fitted the OTS and it benefited us a lot because the natural lighting would not have work as well as he black and white.

Construction: Audacity

We used audacity to record our foleys and this helped us create sounds for the bat knife slit and the screams. This has benefited us hugely because it was really quick and easy to do and there was no problems with the recording software.

Evaluation: Emaze

We used Emaze for one of our technologies for one of our evaluation questions. This massively benefited us because it was a very quick and easy site to use and we can access it with ease. Also this shows people that we can use different websites so it makes it a lot more interesting.

Research and Planning: Prezi

We used Prezi in presentations to show our peers how we were going to construct our OTS. It’s a broader version of Microsoft PowerPoint and visually on the slide trail see the important factors are we were going to address while in the Research and Planning faze.

Research and Planning: WikipediaWikipedia was a great resource when looking at other slasher horror

films. This gave us an insight into distribution companies, conventions and narrative enigma.

Construction: Cut tool

The cut tool is used for trimming the sides of videos to then capture the section which would be used in a film. The benefit from this was that were able to able to practice shots over to perfect them if the outcome wasn’t good, we could simply select the area to trim with the scissor icon and cut the shot to length.

Construction: Placing clips

Placing clips was an important especially for the overall effect our OTS. We wanted to create a narrative enigma however not confuse the audience. So placing clips to make the editing was continuous was important. The benefit is that the placing can be changed to help suit the message of what's happening just through editing to make the plot line easily understandable.

This is done by holding left click and dragging the clip

Evaluation: Powtoon

Powtoon was a good online presentation website used to create short stories and presentations. The benefit of this was that we were able to use the many editing features as a contrast to a standard PowerPoint do portray our Research and Planning or other sections. In our evaluation, we used Powtoon how we looked into our Distribution company and why we chose it. A big benefit is that its extremely versatile and could change a lot features such as colour design and format to help separate different sections of what we spoke about as a group.