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

I have learnt a lot about using imovie since we started making our film. Before, I had never even been onto the editing suite, so by having to use the programme for my media coursework took a lot of time learning and getting used too. We used the method of trial and error to get us through editing our film, so we found ourselves pressing “edit, undo” many of times. Firstly, we cut the film to how we wanted it, and then we added transitions and extra effects such as soft focus in our flashbacks to the rave Rose was at so it would look like it was vague memories flooding back to her. Lastly we added the music. Because we used two different songs; a song from the Prodigy for the flashback scenes and ‘Closer’ by the Kings of Leon for the scenes in the woods, we found it difficult to stop and start them so they wouldn’t run over each other. Trial and error of cutting the scenes here and there made this even more difficult, because every time we changed the sequence of the film, the music would then be out of time with the film. So we found ourselves constantly re- applying the music. By the end of it, I was confident with how imovie works and how to cut, edit and add effects into our film.

When we were filming the actual thing, we found the use of the video camera very easy to use. It was very basic and easy to just stop and start as we were filming. We decided not to use the zoom because we had been advised it would look unprofessional because the camera wasn’t brilliant, and if we had of zoomed, it may have looked a little like a home video. When we came to editing it, we were pleased we had just filmed it with no effects because now we had lots to work with on imovie to make it as good as we possibly could have. An example of a shot sequence we used, was where Rose was stood up, stumbling around and the camera was shooting her from a tree (a high angle shot), then it cut to a close up of her ripped tights, and then cut back to her stumbling around again. We thought this looked good because it showed how much of a state she was in physically and mentally, and then showed her tights which were ripped, which was evidence of how she got taken there and why.
( the close up of the ripped tights)