As a group we decided we wanted to do an underwater shot for our opening two minutes, so we used the Kodak 600D, this allowed us to capture underwater clearly in HD keeping up with the other piece of equipment we used for shots that weren't done in water. This camera had auto focus which means it focused onto the hands of the protagonist in the shot, showing what she was doing and why, in this case she was washing blood off her hands. This was a great special effect that we used within our film as people are constantly amazed with how we filmed it and said it was one of the main best parts of our film as it created suspense with the diagetic sound that the movement of the water created and made a good effect on the audince. The other camera we used was the Canon 600D, this machine allowed us to use manual focus which benefited us as it let us experiment and focus in on the most important thing in each shot. For example, the last shot of our opening two minutes; we begun the shot by focusing in on the girl but then changed it so the focus on the antagonist making him the main subject in that shot.
To record our video diaries we decided to just used the iPhone 4s as it was easy to use because we have had much experience filming of it in the passed; it made creating a video diary an easy and fun thing to do.
To edit our clips and to put them together we used Adobe Premiere Elements, this gave us a good range of effects, transitions and fonts we could and did use to create our film. This software allowed us to crop our clips so they're very accurate which benefits us as we wanted to use a lot of match on action shot in our opening two minutes. We needed to be precise with our match on action shots so they would look and run smoothly which makes the film seem a lot more realistic and professional.
From using this software we have been able to learn many new techniques that we didn't already know to make our film, this will massively benefit next year as we are making a trailer for our final piece; learning how to use this software will make the editing process quicker.
To show the evidence of our work we posted it on this webpage - Blogger. Without this blog it would've made the entire year a lot harder as we wouldn't have anywhere to post our process.
Using blogger let us post and edit our post as frequently as we wanted to, share video diaries and our final film from YouTube which meant we could keep all of our work in one place.













