EVALUATION ACTIVITY 6

This photo shows all the equipment which i have used to create the film opening, as you can see there is a mac in the background and we used this mac to do all of our editing using programs such as: GarageBand, Final Cut and Photoshop. We also used little sights such as, Blogger, Vimeo, Youtube, and Flickr.

There is also a camera with the microphone and tripod. We used the camera obviously to record, and the tripod was to keep steady shots, but we didn't always use steady shots as we had some over the shoulder shots as well. On top of the camera is a microphone which records all of the sound whilst filming, but we didn't actually use any of the sound which we had when recording because it was mostly Sven shouting (Action); but we did record sound at a later stage.

We also used headphones whilst on GarageBand, to make our own music for the soundtrack of the film. The headphones are on my head in this photo.

FINAL CUT

Here are some screengrabs of the main programs which we used to make our film opening look professional and not rushed.

Final Cut was the crucial program for our film, because this is where we edited everything, like cutting scenes out of our film, and putting everything in the right position, we also used it for special effects and adding titles.

In our film opening we had many special effects, like at the beginning we blurred the POV shot to make it look like blurred vision as the character has just been pushed to the ground. Later on in the film we added another special effect, where the characters meet and everything goes to slow motion for a little while creating tension.

GARAGE BAND

GarageBand was another program which we had to use to make our film stand out, because in this program we had to create our own music and we had to take lots of sounds to do this. In my opinion, by the end of making the soundtrack which we struggled with at first, it turned out to be very appealing, and actually went with the type of film we have, also if you listen carefully the tone of the music changes when it switches between characters. Another thing I think we did well, was when the characters meet, the music changes to build a lot of tension.

When using GarageBand we also had to fade the music out at the end, so we had to get the pen tool out and put dots on the line where we wanted to drag it down, then when we had it at the right point, we would play it through and it would fade out perfectly.