Technologies Used

iMovie
We used iMovie to edit our film as it is easy to use and we had easy access to it through school computers. There are lots of features of iMovie that allowed us to get the desired effect that we were looking for when we storyboarded our piece. This included their predesigned titles, which allowed us to choose from a wide selection of looks for our credits, and we could also change the font.

Our final font choice is American Typewriter:

Camera

The camera we used to film our piece is the Canon EOS 600D DSLR. The quality of the camera is brilliant and although its primary purpose is for photography, it is recommended for young filmmakers as the film quality is very good. This made our opening look a lot more professional than if we were to use an iPhone or cheaper camcorder, as the use of focus was very important in our piece and it would have been more difficult to produce the desired effect on cheaper equipment. 

 You can see from the quality of the stills (left) that the camera was very effective in producing footage of a professional quality. 





Sound Recording
Our opening required a lot of sound, both diegetic and non-diegetic that we needed to record separately. We used the voice recorder app on an iPhone (iOS 7) to record sounds that we could then lay over the footage.