Evaluation Q6

How we used technology to help us with creating our opening

What was used

Hardware - Laptop, Camera, Tripod, stabilizer

Software - After effects, premier 

Online - Blogger, YouTube, free license soundtrack website and tutorials

Research

We did some research to help us improve our opening. First of all, we looked similarities in apocalyptic thrillers such as walking dead which has a very dull and kind of abandoned location which has been used in our opening. We researched for a soundtrack which had a slow build up which sounded like danger was coming closer.

Planning

Planning was first done on paper where we took a few shots of the location and looked for the best spots to add to the opening. We constructed a mood board to gather up ideas which links to our film and also made a storyboard of a rough idea of which shots will be in which order. These ideas were researched on the internet as we find images which are related to apocalypse. We took several test shots of buildings to see if it was suitable for our opening. This was then posted digitally on the blog which helped us guide our way to construct an apocalyptic thriller. We took a video of ideas of what equipment we will be using in our film opening, the theme of the opening which is an apocalypse and influences that we follow which one of them is the walking dead.

Filming

Filming was taken place with the use of 2 hard wares which are the camera and the tripod. These two hard wares gave us record of what we have filmed which later was used in the opening as we selected the shots that fitted into opening the best. Props were crucial for our film opening as it gives the audience some representation of both characters in the opening. These hard wares converged perfectly which helps benefit the opening. This made it feel like it was more of a beginning of the apocalypse as both characters are still in their casual clothes and look unprepared to what they might have to face next.    

Post production

Lots of after effects has been used in our film opening such as the change in the colour of the sky to make it darker than usual.