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

Through-out both the filming and editing process for our thriller opening of ‘The Thicket’ I have learnt a lot about the different technologies which I have been using.

In order to edit our film we used Final Cut, I had used this program before to edit previous media pieces but from this task I have learnt a lot more about the functions which can be used within the program in order to create a better film.

Filters When we watched our film back, we noticed that during the

bedroom scene the lighting did not look right for the time of day which we wanted to portray it to be. This affected the atmosphere significantly and made it look a lot less realistic. We wanted the audience to know that it was early in the morning, however, the lighting suggested that it was in the evening.

This is when we were introduced to filters. By using filters we were able to use the ‘colour correction’ tool in order to change the overall colour of the scene. By doing this we were able to create a more ‘fresh’ light which would normally be associated with the morning. This made it appear much more realistic and stopped any further confusion for the audience.

Titles I had imported titles into a film on Final Cut before, however I

had not known how to import a font. After looking at different font styles on www.dafont.com, we had come across some really good ideas. We wanted the font for our titles to be significant towards the narrative of our film. We found a font which fit the criteria perfectly. This particular font was chosen as the ‘school-like’ image it gave off helped with the characterisation of the girl who featured in our opening.

We were able to download this font and import it into our film, something which I had not know you could do before. In order to do this we clicked ‘download’ on the website and saved it to the computer. We then imported it into Final Cut and were able to successfully use it in our film opening.

In order to make the titles fit in with our opening we made it so that they would appear on-screen in time with the soundtrack which we had added.

We added a ‘type-writer’ effect to make it appear as though they were being typed onto the screen, complimenting the ‘school-style’.

Sound In order to create a soundtrack for effect we used the program ‘Garage

Band’. This enabled us to create a soundtrack using many different instruments so that it would fit in with the film clip which we wanted it to complement.

At the bottom of the screen there are many different tracks to choose from. Once we had chosen which track we wanted to include, we were able to select it and drag it to the timeline at the top. I learnt that not only were we able to customise the timing of the soundtrack, but we were able to build up many different layers in order to built up a unique one to fit in best with our film

I also learnt how to change the volume of certain tracks so that certain tracks could be heard over the other, or so that the whole soundtrack could be more quiet so that the main focus can remain on the diegetic sound, in our case, the spade.