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

We came to start filming at the chosen locations some shots seemed to be too hard to achieve, such as a shot that we had to go under the bridge that was in a river as we thought there was a platform there. But there wasn’t so we resulted in doing this shot on a side path that was almost the same level. This change didn’t affect the film too much as the shot that we got instead wasn’t too different from our original idea. One other Change we had to make was because of the weather. On the days that we wanted to film, it had snowed. We decided that we should still film because the snow we thought gave off good lighting, and effects that you cant get any other way as. So we thought we should make the most of it, as it brings new aspects to the mise-en-scene. As you can see from Still number 3, the snow on the ground and the classic street lamp, together represent fantasy and an evil landscape. The lamp and the snow connote this because of in the film ‘Narnia’ these two things represent the evil, in which the snow connotes fantasy.
When Creating and putting our thriller film together, and through all the individual processes I have become aware of the facts that miniscule touches to the film, can change it dramatically, such as steady shots (to obtain a steady shot, we used a tripod.) and that the more shots we took the better all from different angles such as a high angle shot a low angle shot, over the shoulder shots, two shots, tracking shots and panning shots all go together, to create a fast paced movie that keeps the audience involved and wanting to see more. When we were editing we found that when we got our music and soundtracks sorted it was much easier to edit as we had beats to cut too. In our film for the transitions I used fade to black mostly as this transition enhanced our heart beats effect that repeats through out the film. We liked this idea as when you can hear the sound but the screen is just black the audience can become confused, this is perfect for a thriller.