Technologies used and how they were mastered
iPhone - we were all familiar with using an iPhone as we all owned one and were aware of how to use the camera and settings. We used an iPhone 6s to film, which gave us a clear HD picture in 4K.
We did not use any other technology to film, as we had a tripod to position the shots and we mainly used natural lighting so didn't need to get it artificially. We wanted the mis-en-scene to be naturalistic as possible so all we needed to do was film in the light of day and use the iPhone.
We used iMovie to edit our opening. This gave us the ability to use the automatic file types that our clips were filmed in and have an easy transition when exporting them onto the Mac. The main effects that we used were the match colour setting, adjusting the colour and speed. We also learnt how to put a glitch overlay over the top of some of our clips by using the glitch video as a cutaway clip and changing the opacity of it so that you could see the main video underneath it. Importing sound was easy as we were able to use iTunes to find any copyright free music or effects that we needed.
Pixlr.com was used to create our logo. We mainly used the pencil and pen tools to create the tree. We also had to use the wand tool to invert the image from a white background with a black tree to a black background and a white tree so that it would blend in more with the opening. Finally, we used the text tool to add in 'Fatal Films' at the bottom.
We predominantly used Facebook to communicate with each other. We created a group chat in order to share our ideas and post visuals of the work we'd done. We felt this was on easy way to keep up to date with the progress we'd been making with our blog and opening.
