looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?

Since the start of the course or more specifically since the lesson with Mike Schillinger, I feel that me personally along with Michael and Matt have as a team developed our media and film creating skills massively. At the start of the course everything was new to us and since then we have managed to create our own horror opening along with a preliminary, film discussions and including a title menu for our film. We have learned and developed an understanding for various different movie making software such as 'iMovie' and 'iDVD' and used them to edit, adjust and add effects to our horror movie opening. We have took on this blog and worked to include images, videos and text to lead you through our experience. Overall it has been an enjoyable experience and an extremely beneficial one in the world of media. I think we have completed this year positively and all worked to the best of our abilities and hopefully our hard efforts will pay off with the end product!

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?(2)

What has worked and what has not worked? Why?

All of our technologies work successfully and most of them without any hassle. The facebook questionnaire was a success and helped us to retrieve some useful information. We used the colleges Imacs movie software at first but found that Matt's software was more advance and allowed us to edit the movie easier and include more effects. We had slight trouble with adding titles to our end product but we eventually worked it out however it was a time consuming effort. I personally struggled with the updated Blogger layout but I downgraded to the old version which I t found much easier to use. I feel our camera skills were of a good level and we used the camera between us to the best of our abilities to create the best angles and a variety of different shots.

Pros of technology
Less workforce, fast and quick results, advance communications (facebook questionnaire and sending each other work) and accessible worldwide

Cons of technology
difficult to work, can be time consuming, expensive equipment and can be time consuming for some people

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

-Make a list of all the technologies you have used in the module from editing to uploading your film to your blog.

I have used youtube for uploading different clips such as our horror opening, the discussion and the preliminary.


We have used 'iDVD' in order to create a menu for our horror opening.

We used a hand-held camera to film to film all our shots with.


All of our editing was done on 'iMovie' in order to put all of our clips together to make our movie run smoothly and for adding in effects .


We used facebook by uploading our questionnaire onto its server for people to fill out and give us ideas for our plot.

CREATING PROPS

Here is the note we worked together to create as the main prop in our film hence the film title 'the note'. We stained the note with tea bags to give it a worn effect and added red paint to give it a bloody effect...

QUESTIONAIRRE RESULTS!

1. Do you prefer gore or no gore in a horror movie?
YES □ NO □     YES = 13 NO = 7

2. What are you more scared of?
□ What you can't see    = 17
□ What is visually scarey    = 3

3. What is your favourite scary movie?
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Paranormal activity = 6

Dawn of the Dead = 3

The Excorcist = 2

Texas chainsaw massacre = 3

Hills have eyes = 2

Scream = 3

The Grudge = 1

 

4. Do you think the music and non-diegetic sounds work to add tension to the most tense scenes? If so what kind of sounds are suitable and scary?

YES = 18

NO = 2

 

High pitched noises = 16

Screaming = 2

Slow deep-toned music = 2

 

5. Out of the following, what horror genre do you prefer?

□ Vampires = 4

□ Slasher = 6

□ Thriller = 2

□ Supernatural = 5

□ Fantasy = 1

□ Haunted houses = 1

□ Zombies = 1

Who would be the audience for your media products?

-How did you 'target' your audience? why? Give reasons
Firstly we had to read through our plot to know what age group we would be targetting our film at; reading through our plot can give us an idea of how 'scary' or 'gory' our film will be and an understanding of exactly what age group our film is suitable for. We havn't included any gore so our film age rating will not be '18' however we intend for the film to be moderately scary so we feel the most apropriate age rating would be '15'. people of the age of 15 also have a disposable income to allow them to attend the cinemas, seeing as some will possibly have jobs and they are to young to consume alcohol or go out clubbing, they can easily afford to go to the cinemas at weekends and at night.

OUR STORYBOARD

This includes camera angles and shots that were used in our horror opening

LOCATION

here is a couple shots of our location and matt filming the action....