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

By having the preliminary task as a starting point, we were able to get to grips with using the camera and filming a variety of shots for example medium shots, long shots, close-ups, wide shots etc. We also learnt how to upload anything we filmed and how to edit anything we filmed., through Final Cut Pro. The things that we learnt from filming were that sometimes, even though using a handheld camera in a horror film made some scenes effective, it was better to use a tripod to provide better quality and to also get shots that wouldn't look so shaky, and unprofessional and it was also better to use a tripod to capture shots we wouldn't have been able to capture using hand-held, for example a shot when we were scanning the beginning of the park to establish the surroundings. Other things that we learnt about the technologies was that our videos needed continuity as jump-cutting didn't look good in the film as it wouldn't have made sense and it looks more effective when it runs smoothly. The way in which we should make sure there's no jump-cutting is by filming more shots and filming them for longer. In our film, there are quite a few jump cuts, e.g. from when the girl walks into the tress, to when she is stood by the fire, some of these look effective as jump cuts in horror films aren't unusual, however, sometimes it looks incontinuous and from this, we have learnt to film for longer and film more.

We also learnt to edit effectively in order to make the film of good quality and to represent other typical psychological thriller films. Having too many effects didn't make the film look good so we decided to use a minimum amount of effects and also due the time limit, we decided to keep it plain and simple but effective in the way we captured shots, e.g. an establishing shot (pan) of the park as the film opening moves away from the chapel and into the next scene. The only visual effect we used was the black and white effect to give some parts of the film a classic, timeless quality to it and further add eeriness to the product, as a lot of horror films have black and white scenes to make them look as though they are filming in the dark/or in the past and to provide the audience with a sense of the unknown.