Evalution: Question 6

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When constructing our product digital video cameras were key because if we didn’t have a camera we couldn’t film. From our prelim when we analysed it we decided to improve for our actual thriller we should use one of our own camera because the schools cameras aren’t very good quality and to take our thriller better we needed everything to be clear and easy to understand so we decided on using our own. We decided the shot types we were going to use were extreme close ups most the way through because when analysing other thriller opening titles this is what they used and it was very effective because it didn’t give the audience a clear understanding which left them on edge. 

When researching we found that lighting was important in thrillers and that low key lighting was used quite often. We could use the use of natural light to get the low key lighting but we found when editing we could use tools to lower the brightness to obtain the low key lighting. As for the weather we was quite lucky and the location too. On the day of filming we got a low key lighting from a gloomy looking day and also surrounded by woods darkened the setting giving us less natural sunlight meaning we could use the low key lighting to our advantage. When editing we used Final Cut as we felt this was a more advanced software which help us incorporate the jump cuts and use the blade cut tool to cut up some of our scenes to add in the flashbacks and we felt this was a successful software in ensuring our thriller looked professional.

 

The shot on the left is a normal shot of the location that we filmed at. We looked at this shot and thought it was affective because of the camerawork and positioning. We knew we wouldn’t be able to replicate this but we tried our best. Also we added in a gloomy affect because this fitted in with the genre and the affect we was trying to create