Evaluation 6 what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 2. When filming your opening sequence, we used the canon camcorder, tripod and light reflector. The canon camcorder was really easy to use and captured film of good quality which obviously essential when producing a film of any sort. The tripod was also very useful it held the camcorder at a still position and reduced the camcorder form shaking. The tripod was most helpful when filming the shot of the clock. Within the room the clock was mounted over the bed and was too high. Moreover, standing on the bed produced alot of shaking without the tripod. Additionally, the tripod has adjustable height, this is important as we wanted to capture alot of high and low angled shots. Lastly, the light reflector came in handy as we could manipulate the light into the face of our antagonist and most importantly objects in which we wanted to show detail. The shot to the left below is clear example at where the light reflector really came into use.
- 3. Another piece of technology we learnt about was garageband. This software enables us to create our own music track with the use and manipulation of loops provided by the program itself. This was really useful in creating our soundtrack as it had categories such as: Orchestra, Jazz, Drums etc to help us locate a particular sound. Also the export of the mp3 was really quick and easy.
- 4. Finalcut is a program where you can edit and create video/films. We started using finalcut even before filming for our sequence so we were familiar with it. From using finalcut, u was able to log and transfer our clips form the camcorder into finalcut express. From here we placed them on a timeline in order and edited them. This program let us add effects and transitions such as fade in fade out. Secondly, it enabled us to use a wireframe which lets use shrink, increase and move the clip inside the frame and also allowed us to position our credits in the right place. Print screen of final cut here
- 5. On the other hand, we used certain websites to help us with our film making. We used Google images to search for inspiring shots which aids us with mise en scene, lighting, camera angles etc. For example this shot from the film se7en found in Google images helped us design our setting. We also used blogger to create posts, share ideas for our film and answer evaluation questions We also made the use of livetype which helped us create our fonts and titles used in our film.
- 6. Overall, i have learnt that the use of technologies used to construct our product were the pillars of our film. Without these technologies such as finalcut and garageband we would have had great difficulty producing and editing and creating a soundtrack for our film. From the use of the canon camcorder i am now able to record clips, from the use of livetype to create fonts that represent aspects and develop emotions and lastly, the use of blogger into which our planning, ideas and research was embedded to assist us to produce our film.