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

Once finished filming we used many online/computer technologies such as photoshop, and youtube. While using these sites we had to upload what we'd taken a picture of or filmed and cut it down to the size we needed. While on photoshop we had to crop and then reserve the image so that it would fit correctly onto our blog and then while on youtube we had to convert videos to quicktime, and then upload to youtube, this process took a while but once on youtube it meant copying and sharing our videos for feedback was a lot easier. Two other computer technologies we used were garage band and itunes. On garage band we found background music that we cut down and distorted to fit with our opening scene, and our main song 'teddy bears picnic' we found on youtube and therefore had to convert to mp3 to work with itunes which we then copied onto final cut pro which was the main editing process for our film.

We used the main filming camera to film only our opening scene, as it had the best quality however while using the camera was a useful technology, we did experience some problems during the filming process. On our first day of shooting, after filming the first main sequence, we discovered that is was in fact taking pictures not video clips. This of course did not help our very time-sensitive situation. These shots had to be re-filmed. After this, later that day, the camera ran our of battery which of course stunted the whole plan for that day. As a result of this, we made arrangements to reschedule for a different day. All of these factors held us up but we managed to be flexible and organised in solving these issues. Dispite the faults mentioned, the camera was easy to use, playback, monitor and transfer clips onto the computer afterwards for editing.

FINAL STORYBOARD

KAT drew the images for the storyboard, and SADIE uploaded and edited the images into one whole image.

Target Audience Research

This research shows us how our film shouldn't be aimed at young teenagers, this is because during our videoing and questioning we discovered that people aged between 15-17 weren't necessarily interested in films that involved anything psychological, they were however interested in modern conventional thrillers that involved chase scenes and car crashes rather than our film which will hopefully include mind games, and complicated scenes that engage the audience into believing something that isn't necessarily true.

The two videos above show the age range of our target audience; 18-24. We have chosen this age group as they knew what would be involved within a psychological thriller and stated that they had previously been to the cinema to watch them. We also asked our target audience what the films were that they had seen, as this would therefore give us something to base our film around as it had previously interested our audience.

Our previous thoughts were to go with an audience 25+ however after interviewing that certain age group we found out that they were very uninterested in thrillers all together and therefore it wouldn't do us any favours having them as our audience as we would have to work around the main conventions of a modern/psychological thriller to make it more suitable for them.