Written by Hannah Boardman
I am going to be evaluating the use of technology throughout the production of our trailer.
I have used Blogger to document my research, planning, and evaluations throughout the production of our trailer. I chose to post blogs about our production on this site because it is available for me to use from both within sixth form and at home for free. Blogger makes it easy to edit and upload blog posts and also add pictures and links.
I used this software to create my blog last year, so I knew how to navigate the site.
We used Celtx to write our script on; it allowed us to create a professional looking script which we could give to our actors to make them feel as though they were in a professionally film rather than a student production. It was important to give them a script because I think they took their role more seriously and worked in a professional manner.
During filming North Chamber we used a Nikon J1 camera
because it allowed us to film high quality videos in 1080p HD which produced
clear footage to get a cinematic effect. This camera is easy to operate,
ensuring that the filming process went smoothly as every member of the group
knew how to operate the camera. Another advantage of the Nikon J1 was that it
allowed us to manually adjust the aperture setting to produce a darker looking
image which helped create an ominous atmosphere. However, in one shot we planned
to have a focus pull and we could not film it with the Nikon J1 because we
needed to be able to manually focus during the filming of a shot. Therefore, we
swapped to a Panasonic G6 camera to film the focus pull because it allowed us
to do this. We used the Panasonic G6 to take behind the scenes pictures of
filming and of the film poster shoot.
Panasonic G6
Nikon J1
We used a SanDisk Extreme 32GB memory card to record all of
our footage on because it had enough memory space for the amount we planned to
film.
We used a tripod when possible so that the shots were steady
and looked professional. However in some scenes this was not possible as there
was little space so we had to hold the camera securely with our hands.
To edit our trailer we used Pinnacle Studio 10. This editing
software allowed us to cut clips and edit them together in the order we wanted.
To get the glitch effect when Cassandra is walking down the corridor at the end
of the trailer, I split the clip a few times and deleted small sections from it,
I then replaced the deleted sections by copying and pasting sections from
earlier on in the clip.
As you could only insert two sounds at a time on Pinnacle
Studio, we used Audacity to merge sound effects together so we were able to
build on the sound we already had. This played an important role in building tension towards the end of our trailer.
We uploaded our trailer, location recce and behind the
scenes videos to Vimeo. Vimeo is a site that allows people to upload videos and
share them with others for free. We could access Vimeo from inside sixth form
which was convenient and wouldn’t be possible if we had only used YouTube. We
then embedded the links of the videos onto our blogs.
As not many people use Vimeo, we decided to upload the final
cut of the trailer to YouTube as it has over one billion users worldwide.
YouTube allowed us to show our film to a wider audience and get more feedback.
Social networking sites are used by film makers to promote
films and to get audiences talking about them. We made a Twitter account for
our production company in order to get audiences involved and excited about the
trailer. The account also allowed us to get feedback from people that have
viewed the trailer. Twitter has a ‘trending topics’ feature that includes the
most popular topics on users of Twitter are discussing each day; hashtags are
used on social media sites to identify
messages about a certain topic. We used the hashtag ‘#NorthChamber’ to help
promote our trailer and so that we could search it and see conversations being
had about the trailer.
I used Microsoft Word to write up all of my blog posts and
then I copied and pasted them into a blog post. I did this so that I had a
saved copy of my work in case Blogger lost any of it. I also used it to make my
film poster template as making and moving text boxes on Microsoft word is easy
to do.
I uploaded this Microsoft Word document onto Scribd as I
couldn’t copy and paste what was in it without the layout of the text boxes
changing. By using Scribd, the template looked neat my blog whilst still being
easily accessible.
I used Microsoft PowerPoint to display my ‘The Woman in
Black’ trailer analysis on. I used PowerPoint because the analysis was very
long it would have looked untidy if I had written it in a normal blog post.
PowerPoint allowed me to break up the post into different slides for different
areas of analysis (mise-en-scene, characters, titles etc.). It also allowed me
to add pictures and screenshots to illustrate what I was writing.
I uploaded my PowerPoint to Slideshare so that I could embed
the link into a post on Blogger. Slideshare is a site that allows you to upload
PowerPoint presentations so that others can access them. It allowed me to copy
and paste the embed code for my presentation onto my blog so that it is easily
accessible and also added another technology to my blog.
We used dropbox to share shot lists, scripts and images etc.
with everyone in the group. As everyone played different roles in the
production we needed a way to share what we had done individually with other
members of the group. Dropbox was perfect for this as you can upload files in seconds
and we could log on and find whatever we needed for our blog posts.
I used Microsoft Excel to record the results of our film
demographic questionnaire because you can create graphs and charts easily out
of the data you have collected. This allowed us to see clearly what audience we
should target the film at and what our target audience liked about the horror
genre.
To create our website we used Wix which is a site allowing
people to make and publish websites through the use of drag and drop tools. We
were able to add content; pictures, a link to our trailer and text very easily.
This then gave us more time to focus on the overall look of the website so that
it would be appealing to the audience.
Photoshop was used to create our poster. The software
allowed us to be creative and fully manipulate images.
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