Software

The software we used for our production is imovie 06. As I have only used this programme briefly with the micro drama and preliminary task I went on the imovie tutorial to ensure I was getting the most out of the software used. The tutorial gave step by step guidance and really helped me come to grips with the new software i was using.

From using imovie I found it is clear and simply set out. Especially how all your clips are down the right hand side and you can chose and drag the clips you want into the bar at the bottom. This stopped there being confusion with the clips you didn't want are deleting clips by accident as there was a clear divide between them. The effects were also easy to find and apply to the clips. Although, at first we thought that you couldn't apply an effect and a transition to one clip. But once we had realised that you could just split the clip into two, apply one effect to the first part and the transition to the second it cleared our problem up. But it still would have been easier to be able to apply more than one effect to a clip.

The effects we used were jump cuts, where you simply cut out small sections of a long clip. We did this to create more tension and stop the shot being to long and continuous. For the part where the antagonist hits the protagonist with the baseball bat, obviously we couldn't have him actually hitting her so we later filmed hitting our hands loudly on the table and then extracted the audio to fit with the hitting of the bat on the film. We put some of the shots into black and white to emphasis to the audience that they were flashbacks. We also added a slow mo effect to create tension.