During the research and planning stages, before making the product, I learnt a lot about what the internet had to offer. The internet offered a vast amount of information on past and present thriller films, clips of films going all the way back to the 1960's, which would not have been easily accessible if it wasn't for internet sites like YouTube.
All the information used on the internet was free, and without it, we would have had a limited number of thrillers to analyse and discuss and to use for inspiration for our own film sequence. When producing our product, we used DV cameras, these are not the best quality of cameras, giving a grainy and dull image throughout the sequence.
The DV cameras also picked up buzzing sounds throughout filming, but we overcame this by adding scores over the top of all our scenes, so this buzz was unidentifiable.
We knew the DV cameras would not be able to pick up dialogue very well when filming outside, so we decided not to include any dialogue, and instead use the camera work, scores and editing to explain the plot and moods. The overall use of the DV cameras was easy to use and they were reliable. During post production we used the internet again to look for scored to add to our footage, we used a website called freeplaymusic.com.
This website offered free, non copyrighted music at our finger tips. Without this website we would have had to either make our own scores which would have been extremely challenging, or contact music producers and ask for permission to use their music, this would have been a very time consuming process. We also used a free software called iMovie to edit our film together. Although it was not industry standard editing software, it was easy to use, offering keyboard shortcuts for tasks such as "split". It offered a non linear and non destructive way of editing.
So if you made a mistake, you could always go back to how it originally was, this meant we could experiment different types of effects and editing ideas before submitting our final piece. We also used internet sites such as youtube, facebook, twitter, and tumblr to distribute our product which was a great success.
All the information used on the internet was free, and without it, we would have had a limited number of thrillers to analyse and discuss and to use for inspiration for our own film sequence. When producing our product, we used DV cameras, these are not the best quality of cameras, giving a grainy and dull image throughout the sequence.
This was a problem especially in the bedroom scene where there was no natural light. There is a big difference between this clip compared to a block buster movie, such as Harry Potter:
The DV cameras also picked up buzzing sounds throughout filming, but we overcame this by adding scores over the top of all our scenes, so this buzz was unidentifiable.
We knew the DV cameras would not be able to pick up dialogue very well when filming outside, so we decided not to include any dialogue, and instead use the camera work, scores and editing to explain the plot and moods. The overall use of the DV cameras was easy to use and they were reliable. During post production we used the internet again to look for scored to add to our footage, we used a website called freeplaymusic.com.
This website offered free, non copyrighted music at our finger tips. Without this website we would have had to either make our own scores which would have been extremely challenging, or contact music producers and ask for permission to use their music, this would have been a very time consuming process. We also used a free software called iMovie to edit our film together. Although it was not industry standard editing software, it was easy to use, offering keyboard shortcuts for tasks such as "split". It offered a non linear and non destructive way of editing.
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