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

K: Like many other media products, such as Kill Bill, which was one of our main influences, we used a flash forwards scene that was in black and white. We decided to use the black and white effect in order to clearly show the distinction between the future and the present.
B: When we tried putting the opening credits over the scenes in our main character's house, they distorited the sound so that it was not in sync with the video. We realised that this was not our fault and, in fact, it was a glitch in the program. Because of this, we had to extract the sound and just match it with out main character's actions - the main action being her turning the radio on with a click. However, the credits had inserted noise that we had originally cut out of the film, that we did not want there. So we had to completely mute the sound for this scene and only allow the click to play. This didn't matter so much because thankfully, none of the sound was crucial.
C: We learnt how to change the volume of the sound because of this. This proved to be quite tricky, but at the end we were able to do this.
E: We couldn't rely on the tripod keeping the camera straight when filming the school sign as it was a windy day. So we tried to film at least two seconds of a straight shot of the sign and then used a still frame of this shot in our final product.
K: We found it extremely difficult to find non-copyrighted music that would actually suit the scene of our main character turning on her radio. So we decided to go on Garageband and make our own song using the program's many beats and tunes. This turned out successful because the music is simple and doesn't sound too depressing or too happy. We also tried to match the music with the end of the scene by making them both fade out together.



We also used the programe iMovie to do a voiceover of Lily breathing heavily, this was one of the sounds we had over the flashforward scene.








We used the two programs iTunes and GarageBand, these were used in the process of making the soundtrack of our opening sequence.



My group and I also used the internet a lot during the whole filming process for research. We regularly visited websites such as Youtube. This was to find our influences and to analyse other opening sequences of films. We also regularly visited the search engine Google. This was used for general research and also finding pictures for our research process. Google also help us to find our non-copyrighted music of our heart beat sound affect.