Pre-Production

HARDWARE

The hardware used in pre-production was minimal due to the intern

We used our iPhones to create a group chat for our group, to message each other with ideas and regards including props and costumes before the shoot. We would also use our phones to message the actors and remind them of the shoot schedule. We also used our phones to film the test shoots using the camera app and different lenses on our cameras to capture the film quality. We also took pictures of our props.

Our laptops (Macs) were used for research throughout this process. Using websites to find out more about the industry, film makers and movies with similar genres and conventions.

SOFTWARE

The software in our Pre-production was mainly used for research and planning purposes, using this helped develop our understanding and workings of the industry. And gave us access to the internet

We used iMovie when when creating our test shoots, we would edit the footage and upload them onto our blogs.

we used different social media platforms such as Whatsapp and Snapchat to communicate within our group for props, costume and confirmations before the shoot.

Using Outlook, we emailed different teachers and students looking for a possible cast. Once that was confirmed, we sent out an email of our shoot schedule and any other information needed. We used Google docs and Google slides to write up our research and planning as well as making slides.

ONLINE

YouTube

This streaming service became significant to pre-production as well as a huge part of the production process altogether. This is where we would watch other opening title sequences and upload our own work as well. After making our test shoot and editing it on iMovie, we uploaded it to YouTube where it is open to the public and we then embedded the link onto our blogs. In pre- production I used YouTube when creating my Foley sound video. I watched a YouTube video on how to use the app Inshot to make sound effects and then watched a scene from Jurassic park I wanted to make sound for. After making the sound effects I uploaded my video onto YouTube and then embedded it onto blogger.

Amazon

Using Amazon, an American multinational technology company, we could access all the props, costumes and makeup we would need for our shoot. Typing the website into google, we then searched for what sort of thing we wanted in our sequence. We began adding things to our basket like fake blood and rubber hammers. We also started looking for dresses and a cool jacket on Amazon but ended up using the cast’s own clothes.

Art of the title

Specifically, for research, I used Google to access information on famous filmmakers, roles in the industry, Saul Bass, and what conventions make up a thriller genre (links to my blogs) :

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/preview/4685637558911455924/2056766003936217784

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When researching titles, I used Art of the Title to watch other title sequences on. This then lead me to discussing the meanings and connotations behind each chosen font, size and colour of a title. I looked into the titles from the movie Scream (1996) which succeeded my initial idea that the large, red, dramatic writing, matched the genre of the film. Searching "thriller" or "Horror" genre into the search bar brought up a variety of different title sequences which I could then chose to research into. So using Art of the Title was mostly beneficial for my research in pre-production, having this knowledge then effected what my group and I did in post-production.