1- Blogger.
We learnt how to set up a blog account, and how to make posts both in and out of school. We completed the majority of our coursework on this, and it is highly convenient to use, because we can access it at school on the macs and out of school either on our phones or laptops, which means we can do work on it whenever. This was my first bit of work using a blog, so it was helpful to learn how it all worked.
2- Apple Macs.
Although I had previously had experience with macs, we learned how to use lots of software on it and how to navigate our way round the macs. This helped us to use OS at it's full potential. We used these to edit our films, to view what we had filmed, and to download music and also make blog posts. Without these, we wouldn't have done our work to it's full ability.
3- Premiere Pro.
We used various programs such as premiere pro and final cut in order to edit our films. I had never used software like this before so it was all new to me, so learning from scratch did initially seem fairly daunting but it was eventually easy to navigate round and use. On this, we learned how to input sounds and titles, edit the film itself and cutting and cropping out what we didn't want.
We used live type to make the titles for our film. Also having never used this type of software, we learned how to use it and create titles that fitted with the narrative of our film openings. We experimented with various titles, and this program worked well for this.
5- Websites for sound.
We used a website called 'Purple Planet', which provides royalty free soundtracks for film openings like ours. This is where we got our soundtrack from, and the rest of the sound that features in our film opening was recorded ourselves on the camera that we used, meaning all the diagetic and non-diagetic sounds were made on either purple planet or we recorded ourselves on the camera.
6- Camcorder.
We had both had previous experience having used camcorders such as the Sony one we had used, however we had never used this specific camera before so this was new to the both of us. We learned how to film on it and used this to film all of our opening, and we rested it on a tripod to make sure all the shots were steady and wouldn't need to be retaken. We also used a flip camera to film our preliminary film and the audience testing, and these were fairly easy to use as me and Hannah had both had experience using these exact cameras before this. These cameras were all fairly helpful toward filming the film opening because they were reliable cameras, and we also used the microphone on the camera to film all the diagetic sounds. I would defiantly use this technology in future because I found it very easy to get on with.
7- Facebook/messaging
Me and Hannah, because there was only the two of us in a group, found communication fairly easy as we are friends outside of this project. We used Facebook Messenger and text messaging in order to stay in touch. This allowed us to organised when and where we were going to film by communicating our schedules and sorting out when we were free, and we talked with our actors through this to sort out when we were free to film. This also helped me and Hannah to organised who was going to have the camera, who was going to keep what we had borrowed from school in order to film and when we were going to hand things in.
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