Evaluation 4

RESEARCH

PLANNING

We found that technology played a massive part in the planning of our opening. The software technology used we used during the planning was Blogger.com, Google, CELTX, and YouTube. The hardware technology we used were the Apple Mac’s.

The most used aspect of software during planning was CELTX, the online ‘all-in-one system for movie and film planning’, was a very useful during our planning, specifically when we were creating our script. First we made a story board by hand using paper and pencils, we had a basic idea of what the actors were going to say and when they were going to say it but we didn’t have it written down. So we chose to use CELTX to produce our script. Although our opening didn’t have much dialog, similar to many horror films. We found that CELTX made our planning process more effective, efficient and fun. A great feature found on CELTX is the session timer, this tells you how long you’ve been writing compared to how long you’ve been thinking. It also has a section where you can set writing goals and deadlines, this helps you stay on track and tells you how many words you need to write at each time limit. They also give you statistics of how you are working alongside your goals. We found by using CELTX we were motivated and knew what work was due in and when, so over all it had a positive impact on out project.  

As well as that we found Blogger.com, Blogger gave us a platform to show, hold and share our planning. We could upload our ideas onto Blogger and it would keep our planning there clearly and made the planning very accessible for me and the rest of our group. A good feature of Blogger is that you can publicly upload parts of your work and it was ever accessible for the rest of your group. For example, if someone in my group was to create a draft script I would be able to view it from their Blog on Blogger.com. By using Blogger, I learnt new skills, one being how to run and take care of an online Blog, a key aspect of keeping the Blog up to speed was time management. If you didn’t have good time management your Blog would not be able to keep up with work or stay set on track, and with the use of Blogger it helped me do so.  By using Blogger, we could upload the planning clearly and it would be somewhere the whole group have easy access to. And it helped us stay on time and keep our planning in one area. This meant our project could progress smoothly and if we wanted to look of refer to our planning we knew it would be in one place.

As well as that, we used YouTube to help us in our planning. Firstly as a group, we came up with a set amount of questions and we asked them to a focus group of four, they fell into the age of our target audience. The questions we asked where so we could get an idea of what our audience would expect from a horror film. We filmed this on one of our mobile phones and uploaded it to YouTube. The good thing about YouTube is that it is very very to upload and extremely easy to view, as I said we filled uploaded and can view the focus group on out mobile phone. After this we copied the link into our blog’s and posted the focus group up. However, YouTube was also very important when it came to teaching us to use some of the new technology that we hadn’t used before, for example some of the features of CELTX were explained in depth over a YouTube video. 

PRODUCTION AND POST-PRODUCTION