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

Final Cut Pro is a video editing software program developed by Apple and first released in 1998. By the early 2000s, its ease of use and compatibility with a variety of video formats made it popular with independent filmmakers as well as editors in Hollywood. Final Cut Pro was used on films ranging from small straightforward productions.


Use the buttons on the capture viewer to find the beginning of the scene to capture, then press "I". Fast forward to the end of the section to be captured using the capture viewer's controls. Press "O" at the end. Allow a few extra seconds at both beginning and end.

This print screens sh0ws, Captured clips will be listed on the left hand side of the screen in the Browser window. Double click on the first desired clip to enter it into the Viewer. Use the viewer buttons to find the exact start frame desired and press "I", then fast forward to the exact final frame desired and press "O". Under Modify select "Make Sub clip" and name when prompted. Repeat for all clips.



Drag each subclip into the timeline on the bottom of the screen in order. Place each block together.

Select transitions from the Effects tab and drag them onto the line between subclips. If the line above the transition turns red it must be rendered. Under Sequence select "Render Only" and then "Needs Rendering."



After all transitions have been established, under Sequence select "Render All" and "Both." After the render is complete, save the project. Finally, under File select "Export" and use QuickTime Movie, QuickTime Conversion or Compressor to convert the raw digital video into the video and audio format desired.

Here we have mix the sound track which we have used as a background music to our film.
During edit, while using of final cut pro ,we have learned how technology and editing plays an important part in our film overall and the program final cut pro help to produce “See through my eyes”.

Film Opening

Film Name : See through my eyes
A Galaxy Film, Produced by Mars Productions.
Filmed and Directed by Bethany Tilburn and Shauni Higgins.
Introducing Zainab Khan and Sinead Doherty

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The genre we chose for our film opening is a thriller, horror. We used this genre as Horror films are a favorite of genre from everyone in our group. We have used the main base for horror films, with things such as the camera work, the use of sound. We have kept costumes simple and haven’t used any facial make up for the characters compared to some horror films such as Scream, who has the icon ‘mask’ and The decent which has the crawlers in costumes and scary make up.

The structure and narrative of our film is different to other horror films as ours goes backwards in the way it tells the story similar to the film ‘Brick’. This way we feel it would interest the audience to carry on watching it to find out what is going on.
When filming our opening we used a tripod on all occasions apart from one. This was to keep the camera steady and make our opening look more professional and better quality. Other Horror films would of used better equipment to film as they are top professional filmmakers and are able to do this.

We used a hand held camera at one point in our opening to create an uneasy effect, as the audience see the shaky camera movement following the protagonist, and gives a hint that something may happen next. This is a stereotypical Horror film move, a certain action, which tells the audience, something is due to happen.
We have used camera shots such as over the shoulder shots, close ups, low angle shot and long shots. These are typical shots you notice in horror films, to show more detail of the character such as close ups to show the characters reactions.

When it came to editing we used ‘Final cut pro software’. Which allowed us to add music to our opening, and edit certain areas of our film to improve it. On one scene of our film, we had to film the same shot twice, once with out the antagonist and once with them.

This was so we were able to merge the two shots together, and edit it so the antagonist faded in and out of the shot. This was to make it spookier, and make it clearer to the audience that the antagonist is a ghost. We made
the ghost quite transparent similar to ghosts that are seen in the film the ‘sixth sense’.



Horror films are known to have sound effects and music running through them, that creates tension, and gives the films a certain atmosphere. For our opening we have chosen an ambiguous sound that creates an uneasy atmosphere for the audience. The sound effects are important in Horror films as they build up tension and also can be linked to people remembering the film. An example would be the famous horror sound from the film 'Psycho' which has been used in other films.

Resume.

The opening begins with a 360 degree shot of a weary looking park, starting from the statue, and ending at there however as it comes back round to the statue the ghost antagonist appears and just stays still whilst stood on it. Next it cuts to a low angle shot of a young female kneeled down by a grave, looking quite upset and thoughtful. It cuts to a medium wide shot showing the women still kneeled down, and then an wide shot from behind the bench, as the ghost appears on the bench, turning it into an over the shoulder shot. Then it cuts back to the wide shot, but showing the ghost still sat on the bench watching the young female by the grave. Next it becomes a new scene in which the female protagonist is walking through the exchange square, then a sudden of voices appear saying her name ‘ Zianab’. The female turns and spots the ghost reflection in a nearby window view. The voices carry on for a few seconds to freak the protagonist out and start to scare her. Another cut shows a long shot of the protagonist walking, with the ghost in clear view to the audience following very closely behind her. The ghost reaches out and places her hand onto the protagonist shoulder. The sounds of someone whispering Zianabs name, starts again getting louder as the protagonist turns round and see’s that no ‘one is behind her, and nothing is on her shoulder.
It then cuts to a long shot of the ghost stood staring into a space, with a still face. A tram cuts through the shot of the ghost, then a shot of the female protagonist at the tram station. These scenes all cut through each other and happen at a fast pace.
A shaky camera shot is used as it follows the female down a dark allays. It shows her in different clothes, which shows the audience that this is a different day. It fades to black, and then shows the protagonist on lie on the floor. A fade to black and then a close up of a picture frame showing the ghost and the protagonist together, which shows the relationship between them. The voice over starts up again and the repetition of the females name ‘Zianab begins getting louder and more often. The protagonist looks distressed as she wakes up to the voices. A cut to a close up of the picture frame again, with one of the faces being de-faced. The protagonist wakes up and gets out of bed all distressed and confused to what’s going on.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We used a number of techniques that defined the genre and grabbed the audience's attention. Firstly the protagonist is a young, female (late teens). We chose her to be the protagonist because not only are young females often used in thrillers but also to do with the fact that she is of a similar age as our target audience (15-24). We feel that by having a character of that age group the audience will be able to relate to the character a lot more and would represent how most audience members would act if they were in that situation. Other techniques we have used to define the genre and grab the audience's attention are the following:

• Sound- the music, voiceover and sound effects we have chosen create a tense atmosphere e.g. when Zainab goes to the graveyard to visit the grave of her best friend the ghost suddenly appears when the low, echo like sound effect is heard. As the ghost appears out of no where hopefully the audience will get a thrill from watching it and want to find out what happens next.


• Editing- During the editing we put some shots with/without the ghost so it looks like the ghost has disappeared. This creates a sense of mystery. Hopefully this get's the audience questioning, therefore they will watch the rest of the film to have those questions answered.


• Mise en scene- In terms of costume both characters (even the ghost) are wearing ordinary teenage clothing, again this is so our target audience can relate to it. In terms of locations we chose ones which are found in most thrillers e.g. graveyard, bedroom, ally, park etc. This again is something that the target audience will be able to relate to as these type of locations are used in most thrillers and are something which the audience will be expecting.

How does you media product represent particular social groups?

The opening of our film shows a young female adult, who plays the main protagonist in our film. The opening shows her kneeled down by a gravestone, looking quite upset. The whole film opening follows her, with different camera movements to create the effect that she is being followed by her best friend her died a few weeks early, however the audience are unaware of this at the time. We decided to use a female character in her late teens as we though that is the time when people socialize and like to go out with friends, so by loosing a friend around that age would have a greater effect on the protagonist. We have used female characters as we think they are used as a stereotype in horror/thriller films. In films such as ‘Silence of the lambs, Scream and The eye, all the main protagonists in these films are female, who are the ones that get chased, are haunted and are the ones the antagonist are after.

In these thriller films, a male character is usually portrayed as the antagonist, however we have gone against this stereotype and decided to use a female ghost as our antagonist. Our film doesn’t exactly portray a particular group of people; it just looks into dept. at friendship, and the whole ‘friends forever thought’ as our two characters have been friends for nearly the whole of their life, and now one has died, yet they carry on following and trying to make contact with our protagonist which scares her and isn’t always in a nice way. Our film shows a negative representation of ‘ghosts’ as the ghost in our film is set out to contact our protagonist but in a evil way, and wants to scare her and make her suffer.

We have used another female character in her late teens as our ghost as she is then the same age as the protagonist and show the connection between the two. We looked at different ghosts from films, and thought the young girl ghost from ‘The ring’ would be suitable to compare and make our Female ghost have a look of. With the dark colored hair coming down in front of the face to make it look quite creepy.