Throughout our A2 project we were lucky enough to have been provided with the best resources to ensure our film would be at the highest standard possible. We had access to apple macs every single lesson meaning our planning and research stages were made a whole lot easier. The internet was vital at this stage as without it our research would have been very limited. The first stage of the project was to create a blog, where all our research etc. could be transferred to,
we then made a start or deciding what needed to be in our film for it to be a successful romantic comedy. We used websites such as Google, Google made it easier to research things like what would be expected from our 12 rating as it led us to the BBFC website, we also researched different types or genre's to see whether ours fit appropriately to our script and as well as this we looked at past posters etc. to give us an idea of what one consists of so we were aware of what we needed to out in ours.
YouTube was also very useful as we were able to watch videos, we watched past five minute films to give us inspiration and to help us understand what would be expected in our film, we also watched things such as past title sequences, viral adverts, radio spots and also films with similar genres. Facebook was used a number of times, such as when getting audience feedback from both our draft film and final film. Excel was used to create our questionnaires and to gather the results on later, this again made things easier for us as it made the results a lot more clear to see.
Final cut was vital when making our film; we used this throughout the whole of the process to edit our film and also to create the title sequences for the beginning and the end of the film. Photoshop was also very important. This was what we not only made our production logo on but also what our draft and final poster was created on and finally Garage Band. This was used for the radio trailer; this made it very easy to put all the voice clips and sound clips together and create the final radio advert. Without these resources our end products would have never have been to the standard that they are now
We were also working with the best equipment, provided with a HDV-1000 video camera that gives up to 20% optical zoom with an excellent focus for filming. We also used a Zoom recorder, that is very simple and we picked up on how to use this almost straight away, it recorded sounds very clear and to the highest standards, this was used to create our radio trailer. It recorded the voice over and then very easily put onto garage band ready for us to edit. Without resources such as these our film would never have been up to the standard that it is now, the new media technologies played a dynamic part in not only the research/ planning and filming stages but also in the editing and final stages ultimately making a film that was constructed in the best possible way.
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