HR: [QUESTION 6] What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• During this process, we have used a wide variety of different medias to conduct our project. The first piece of technology we used was a Panasonic HDC SD-10 for our preliminary task. We edited it with Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0, the same software we used for our opening sequence. We made no changes to the colouring or sound as we were mainly focusing on the potential types of camera angles we could have use. We later used this camera to film our audience immediate response and our question 7 evaluation.

• To analyse the different openings to give us inspiration for our opening, we embedded clips from YouTube onto Blogger to make it look more organised and neat, plus it makes watching the clips easier.
• Also when we were analysing the clips, we took screen shots of the opening, pasting them into Paint and uploading the pictures onto Blogger to make the post have multimedia.
• For the presentation to get the green light, we used PowerPoint presentation to present our ideas to the rest of the class and we uploaded this onto SlideShare to then put on the blog rather than doing many screen shots.
• Another piece of online software we used was survey monkey to get audience research prior to film making and audience feedback for our film. This way it allows us to analyse the results easily and to adapt it to how we wanted. 
• For the actual filming, we used three different cameras: Panasonic HDC SD-80, Sony Bloggie, Canon IXUS 115 HS and for one small sound clip, an HTC Desire HD smart phone. These all film in high definition so continuity editing was not really a problem.
 

• As previously mentioned, the editing software that we used to edit our opening was Adobe Premiere Elements 9.0. We used a variety of techniques within the software to help our film more cinematic.We did this by altering the brightness and contrast, saturation and lightness to make continuity fluent.
• To distinguish between the two cameras used by the girls, for one camera we added a layer onto the clip to make it have a camera battery icon and a record button onscreen. For the other camera, we altered the quality of the clip by adding an old film style effect on top and changing the gamma.
• For some of the dialogue, we took the sound from one clip and put it over another ones for example when the protagonists are trying to escape from the house. To keep continuity the same so the shouts were not choppy, we chose the best sound from all the takes we did and put it over the clip. We used this method several times in our opening, another example being the screams at the end of the opening when one of the protagonists die.
• For our titles, we used two both downloaded from DaFont, one called "gogo zombie" (for the initial titles) and the other called "skin & bones" (for the film title). The first being the titles within the opening showing director, editor and the actors names. We layered this and positioned them in places that appeared to be bare, then changed them by adding a shadow effect onto them so they would show up more easily. To make the transitions smooth, we made them fade in and out making sure they lasted for around the same time periods.

• For the film title, we used a stencil made in Photoshop which could allow us to show the footage through each of the letters as it zoomed in to reveal the title: Gutted. 

• The music in our piece was downloaded through video2mp3.net  and was placed on a separate track on Adobe Premiere Elements so it would not get confused with the dialogue and sounds in the other clips. The two sounds we used were the sound of a blackbird singing so the beginning scene had a sound bridge rather than being in silence and the second piece being our main background music. We had to change the volume for some parts of the opening so it would not conflict with other sounds on top. For the chase scene we made the sound as loud as we possibly could in order to connote fear and tension.