In the construction stages of our film the video footage was originally imported into iMovie, though this proved too low a quality to use for editing. With this considered, we then imported the footage into Final Cut Express which allowed us to add effects and edit audio accordingly. These effects would prove to be incredibly beneficial to the general aesthetic of the video.
We filmed using a Sony Digital High definition Video Camera, which allowed us to use higher quality footage in our film. However despite the fact that the quality on camera and editing was very good, many of the scenes once digitized and compressed on to YouTube became blurry and quite difficult to make out. This was down to the fast pace of the scene changes rather than the quality of the equipment that we were given.
In the research and planning stages large referencing sites such as YouTube where used to look at videos of previous films like “Law Abiding Citizen”. YouTube gave us access to almost every scene from the film and meant that we could analyse the parts that we needed to very easily. In addition to this we used Google maps in the planning of where our film was going to be shot. We plotted on a map where all of our houses were and decided which the best for everyone to go to was. Luckily every member of the group was able to drive and so although the drive may have been long we were able to all get to the same place.
In communication we had many technologies at our disposal. The school “Leaning Platformt” which everyone in the school has access to gives every person in the school a Gmail account. In using Gmail we could immediately share documents with each other in a very easy format. Additionally we could also copy in our teacher so he knew when and where we were filming, and this was used on many occasions to book out the equipment when we needed it, and was useful for our teacher to then be able to ask us for it back. What made Gmail especially helpful was the fact that we all had Blackberry Smartphone’s and so when sending an email everyone would receive it like a text and made the process far quicker, it was like having our own online blogs to instantly talk to each other.
Upon publicising the film, Facebook was a great tool. It was good because when I posted the film in my status i knew it was going specifically to an audience that would be interested to see this genre of film in a cinema, in addition to this when people commented on the video we could use this as primary research, and analyse the comments that people had made. Not only this but it was a free and effective way of showing our film to as many people as possible.
We also used Microsoft Word to type up a lot of our research and Microsoft Excel to quantify the data which we had collected from our research.
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