Horror Film - Final Draft

Evaluation Activity 7 - Looking back at your prelimiary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

When doing the preliminary task I had no idea how to edit the footage properly and looking back at the footage you can clearly see that it is not edited smoothly as it jumps. We didn't use any special effects to make the footage better, we just had what we filmed. It was also the first time I'd heard of 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. Since doing the preliminary task I have learnt a lot more about shot types such as I now know all the various shot types from extreme close up to high angle shot. We wanted to use a variety of shots and we achieved this by using a close up on the killer blowing out the candle and using a mid low angle of a character on the phone. When filming I wanted to make sure we used 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. We used a shot/reverse shot when the two characters were on the phone to one another. We used a match on action when our character was writing a card. We used a variety of effects in our film which we would have never been able to use or know how to use without doing the preliminary task. We used effects such as adding music to our film and fade to black and the end of frames. One of the special effects we used was the dripping blood we used in the title.

                                          Horror Film                                    Preliminary task

Evaluation Activity 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We used a HD Camera called Panasonic HDC-SD80 and it was the first time we had ever used one at first we didn't know what to do but we got use to it after using it for a while. Using this camera allowed our shots to be in a higher quality than a standard camera. We used a tripod so that our shots were steady.

We used the Mac to edit our film at first it was difficult because we had never used one before and we didn't know how to use it properly but after using it a few times we learnt how to use the effects and transitions. Using the Mac has helped improve the standard of our film as we had so many things to use on the Mac that would help to make our film better such as the fade to black transition. We learnt how to edit the pitch and frequency of sound clips, add lighting effects to the shot and adding distortions to the shots. These were an example of some of the things we used and learnt, we used plenty more transitions and effects in our film.

I used youtube in one of my evaluation task and I used it to upload my videos on. At first I didn't know how to use it but now I know how to annotate on it.


I used google as my main search engine to look for images and for our research for our character and horror films.

When we first started using blogger I didn't have a clue what I was doing, but over the process of using it I have learnt how to make new blogs and how to use it properly. I learnt how to change the layout of my blog and change all the fonts to whatever font I wanted it to be. I found it easy to use blogger and never had any problems when using it.

Evaluation Activity 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?