Evaluation 6- What have you learnt about technology from the process of construction?

Evaluation 6

We have used YouTube to do research on teen-angst openings by watching the beginnings of different films and analysing them so that we can fully understand the conventions. We have also used YouTube to upload our product drafts.




 We have used Blogger throughout our research and planning for our product to post all our thoughts processes and actions.









We have used PowerPoint and Photoshop to layout and present our ideas for our blog. This has mainly been done by screen grabbing  and saving the documents and then posting them with descriptions.
Microsoft Word was our main program for planning as we used it for making timetables for filming, storyboards and step outlines.





I have used my laptop, phone and iMac to communicate with our actors and plan the filming schedule.
My laptop was also used, with Photoshop, to draw the images for the story board.

My phone was used to film the first draft and the first draft was edited on my iMac using iMovie. We started to edit second draft on Premier Pro but we struggled to get going with it, so we stuck to what we were familiar with.


We used Rachael's DSLR camera to take photos of the settings we were going to use, we posted this on our blog with a description of the locations. We also took photos of the actresses so that we could do analysis of their different outfits and expressions.


The tripod was used to capture steady shots where the characters are walking and getting ready.

Facebook messenger and iMessage were used to communicate with Rachael and our actors (Bryony and Jenna) for what equipment needed to be brought in on which days and what clothes the characters needed to wear.

Here are some screenshots form my phone of the footage that we recorded and some screenshots of a conversation Rachael and I had over iMessage about the filming schedule.

To create the split screen in iMovie, I placed the clip on the left on top of the one on the right. I then selected 'video overlay settings' and clicked 'split screen'. I cropped each image to make sure both characters stayed in shot throughout the effect.












we added the title by dragging the transparent image into the place in the media that we wanted it to appear and selected 'crop'  and 'crop to fit'. This is so that the whole image fit on the screen.

 I have then gone back to 'video overlay settings' and selected 'picture in picture'. This enables me to drag the image around and place it where I would like it to be on the screen.

To insert each transition, I have dragged the transition that I wanted, for example: fade to black, in-front or after the clip I want and then edited the length of the fade.