Evaluation Question4
- 1. Question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
- 2. These images are of me filming the zoom in of the kiss on Lucy’s neck. To do this she sat on the windowsill like in he previous shot so she had the natural light on her neck. I used a tripod whilst doing this shot as I wanted it to be still.
- 3. These are photos showing how I filmed the plate smashing clips. To do this I positioned the camera and tripod on top of a table so that the camera was looking down over the edge. I then stood by the side of the camera and threw the plates down onto the floor. I kept the camera on record whilst doing this and just cut out the bits I didn’t want. Once I had got this footage I could then slow the speed so that you could see it clearer and it went better with the speed of the music.
- 4. The two images on the left show the first two methods I used to film the man in the doorway. I knew that I wanted it to be dark and look like a silhouette so I shone I light behind the man. However, after watching back the footage I had got I thought of a better way to improve it. I then positioned the man in the doorway of the dollhouse in a dark room and shone a light from behind. This gave the shape of the doorway as well as the silhouette of the man with the knife in his hand. I didn’t use I tripod to film this as it was on the floor and the tripod was too tall. Instead I balanced the camera on top of a couple of books so it was still and at the right height.
- 5. This is an image of my two actresses whilst doing the killing scene towards the end. To do this I started of with just a couple of lipstick marks on their necks, and then every time I did another shot I would add several more lipstick marks. To make it clear that the number of marks was increasing I took shots of each of them lying on the bed separately and then one of both of them. To film this I used a tripod as I wanted it to be very still because they were both dying.
- 6. I did the editing over several sessions using iMovie on an apple mac. Between these sessions I was able to re-film the bits I didn’t like, for example the clip of the man in the doorway. Whilst I had these bits missing I put notes in-between the clips I had already cut, positioned and edited so that I knew exactly what to do once I had got these parts filmed. I put the effects and transitions in as I went along, this was because if the transitions were slow it changed the timing slightly. I only used two different effects on the clips, ‘romantic’ and ‘vignette’. I chose these two because they were very similar, but one was light and the other was dark. I used the light one for the beginning when the two homosexual girls are happy and the darker one towards the end when they get killed. Getting all of the clips in time with the song was very difficult and involved a lot of cutting and extending clip lengths. To help me I used my storyboard as I had written rough time guides on the side. Once I had all these rough times in it was a lot easier to go through and adjust the timings to make the clips fit and make sure the lip syncing was in time.
- 7. Equipment used I used a tripod to do a lot of the filming. I attached my camera to the top and I was then able to adjust the height and angle of the camera easily. This helped to make sure my clips were still when they needed to be and also smooth whilst the camera was zooming or turning. The camera I used to do the filming was a 3.1 mega pixel HD camera. This was very easy to use and the quality of the footage I got was excellent. Using this camera I was able to zoom in and out whilst recording, and I could also watch my footage on it. For most of my video I just used natural lighting, however I was not able to for some clips. I the clip of the silhouette if the man in the doorway I used a desk lamp to shine from behind. This was bright and made the light focus on the right area. Also when I filmed the bedroom scene I used spot lights on the ceiling. This was because it was quite dark in the room and there wasn’t any natural light.