Finally, here is the last blog posts for the CCR questions and for this one, I'm going to be talking about question #4
In my last blog post, I talked about my idea for the video and just like for questions 1 and 2, there's a video for questions 3 and 4 as well so once I finish talking about my 3rd question, I'll transition to the 4th question being: How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware and online-in this project?
Software tools-
So to start off, some of the software tools that I plan to talk about that we used is Pixabay which is a free stock photography website and media website that lets us share photos, illustrations, sound effects, and film footage which helped us in making our film.
To make some of the sounds in our film, we used voice memos on our iPhone and soundboard tuna in the editing process of our film to help add more of an effect to it. The sounds in our film are a crucial part in not just our film, but in many horror films, sound is important to hear when the viewer is watching it as they want a realistic view of what is going on during a horror film to create a more scary, eerie and dark environment.
The last software tool that I integrated was how we edited the film. We edited the film by using Adobe premiere which is a great website for editing the process of our film as it gives us lots of different features and items to utilize when we edit the film. Another thing about adobe premiere is that it was honestly fairly a simple use and we could edit the film with minimal complications so I would recommend it to new filmakers like me who are starting out trying to make films
Hardware-
Our film did not utilize much hardware and I still think it turned out fine. Some reasons that our film did not use many hardware in it is the POV shots that we took as well as the handheld camera. as we did not use any sort of set-up device on the phone camera to help stabilize the shots. We did this since like I said, there are many POV shots of the phone camera on the person, but the many handheld shots also created the aspect of a real horror situation that way happening. The shakiness of the camera gets the viewers a sense of worry and a frightening aspect of the scenes in our film.
The other source of hardware was the phone being a lighting source for the shots that we made. We had some complications with filming due to the shots being too bright or being too dark but we adjusted the phone lighting and put the phone in different positions to get the right shot so it would look the best that we could possibly make it our too.
Online-
Now this part is going to be short since we also did not use online that much but some of the stuff that we did that was online includes the Google drives we made to store the clips so we could get back to them and have them for editing and using YouTube for any type of sounds, music, and tutorials in order to make our film better. The tutorials I feel like helped us a bit since some of the shots were pretty tough to make so watching tutorials made it easier to shoot along with the music and YouTube which actually is where we got our instrumental for most of our film.