Today we were given a check list of everything that we needed to put on our blog, so today we added everything that wasn't already on the blog that needed to be. We also continued editing our final film as today was our last lesson till the deadline. We added the titles to our film then began to add our sound from garage band to the actual film. 

Evaluation Questions (Part 2) - Katie Mckeag

7. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

·         Consider the different technologies you have used, the Internet, Blogger, iMovie, Garageband, how did they help you make your film?

·         Did the technologies help you be more creative?

·         Did these technologies help you exhibit your film or improve the structure or your control over the piece?

I was really useful using all the different technologies for the project. The blog helped us keep track of our own progress, what’s been done and what needed to be done. We also used it for print screens when re-shooting to know where the symbol was on our actress’s neck. iMovie was clearly the one that helped the most, it’s what we imported out footage on and made it what it was. We used the internet for research before filming anything. It helped us figure out what really was needed in a satanic horror and search ones that inspired us. As well as that it helped us decide what fonts to use for our title sequence as there are lots of font sites to search and find what was best (dafont.com & 1001fonts.com).

The technologies did help make the film more creative as Garageband is software that lets us make our own soundtrack to the film. It means we can make music match the intense parts of our film, it lets us make the whole thing ours including music. iMovie let us be more creative with it’s choice of effects and whatnot to improve the film. It didn’t all have to be simple cuts, we got choices.

They helped us exhibit our film again through iMovie, like Garageband we got to choose the parts we wanted the audience to concentrate on and alter what they may think of it, it all came from how we used those technologies. This one also helped improve structure as well as control as you can slow it right down to seeing single frames, it means we can cut of seconds so much easier and make it fit perfectly.

14.03.11

It had been planned that one of us were to film on Wednesday the title sequence due to the fact it being un-level on the earlier shoot. However due to circumstances the footage wasn't the greatest so we've planned to go again this Wednesday and sort it.

Today we are again editing our footage, as well as this we are going to be looking at others films so far and reviewing them, with others looking at ours too. We're doing this for feedback on what everyone has so far to improve them. It will also help us answer some more evaluation questions.

As we have before, we looked at earlier students work so see the quality and levels they were given and to ensure we got the best we could.

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As a group we looked at another groups video while they looked at ours. We had sheets to fill in marking 1 to 10 on different aspects, i.e. overall creativity, holding a shot stready, shooting material appropriate for a horror film, etc.
While reviewing another groups, they were looking at ours. When finished we looked over what we got. Taking into account that the film isn't finished yet we got an average for 7 and 8's. WSe thought that was good so far. We realised that editing and transitions/captions/effects were some of the lowest. We knew this ourselves as we hadn't finished these parts. We will take this however and make sure when getting these done they are clear and consistent.

7.03.11

Today we carried on with editing the stuff that we'd filmed. We got it down now quite a bit to only the certain parts we need. We also made a start on then cutting them down to the correct times. We did have a slight problem with a few shots as they looked like they jumped, we asked Jo to see what she thought and she agreed with us; we tried to make it look better but it was still a problem, we've decided to film a POV shot and then slot it here to see if it looks better.
One of our members (Katie) has also ordered a camera for Wednesday to re-do the title sequence, it only really needs one of us to do it; any other re-shoot and we'd all go.
We were also having a few problems with GarageBand right up until the end.

Evaluation Question Two (half-term homework) - Alex Rowbottom