Technologies Used

iMovie

To edit our opening, we used iMovie on Apple Macs, as it was easy to use and we all had easy and reliable access to our opening on the school system. The numerous features in iMovie allowed for us to gain our desired effects decided during our brainstorming and storyboarding of our opening, including the pre-designed titles and credits, and choice of font.
For our final credit font, we chose American Typewriter to further imply the feeling of a war film, inspired by the typewriter font for telegrams.

Camera

We used a Canon EOS 600 DSLR to record our shots, due to the high quality. Although used mainly for photography, it is a recommended camera for young film makers, thanks to the quality it produces. This helped to make our film opening appear more professional than if we were to use an iPhone or digital camcorder, as focus in our film was important to build the atmosphere and tell our narrative.

Sound Recording

Our opening required many diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and we needed to record some of it separately. We used the voice recorder/voice memo application on an iPhone with iOS 7 to record these separate sounds that we could then overlay on our clips.

Garage Band

Garage Band helped when it came to editing our sounds, but originally we used it to create a piece of music for our opening. However, it did not make it into the final version of our opening, as we felt that the opening had a better atmosphere without, the silence creating the tension and excitement we desired.