Final question 6
- 1. Media evaluation : question 6 By cerys gratton
- 2. Whilst constructing this media product there have been many different technologies that I have learnt about and had to used. I was first introduced to a mac which was a piece of equipment that I had never dealt with before. So the entire process I found quite confusing and did struggle with along the way. Not only did I have to get to grips with the difference in layout between a mac and windows software. But I had to learn to use different editing software’s such as adobe after affect’s and adobe premier pro. For me I found premier pro the most challenging to work with. I found that I would often mix up different processes or I would embed the film footage correctly causing it to stop adobe editing it. Or when using after affects my biggest problem was getting the text to appear on the screen at the right time whilst being in the right font and animation.
- 3. Another massive technology I have used isTumblr. It has helped me to document my progression throughout this project. I have been able to upload my work in a range of different media and chronologically order my work so it makes sense. Not only hasTumblr has caused me to upload in a range of media but it has caused me to out source different platforms that I didn’t know I would need. For instance in order to upload a presentation toTumblr I would have to go through other mainstream sights, Another new technology that I had learned to use whilst constructing this media product was recording on a film footage camera.Which might seem simple to most but in our preliminary task my main role was editing the footage. And I didn’t get much hands on time using the camera to record live action. Whereas in our film opening there was more roles to share out then there was in our preliminary task which meant we all had to record some part of the opening. Not only was it learning to record the footage but it was learning to film in difficult or unusual places. For instance there is one scene where your looking from the protagonists point of view, which had to be filmed from under a bed. Its instances like these that I feel I progressed from the preliminary task.
- 4. Amongst learning to film on a recording camera I had to adapt to converging technologies alongside filming.When filming our preliminary task we hadn’t really been introduced to new technologies so the use of light boxes and microphones didn’t seem necessary.Whereas in our film opening we didn’t have spotlights in the locations we were using to film so we had to improvise and use small lightboxes on tripods in order to get the lighting we needed. Overall I feel that I have made huge progression since the preliminary task and I feel that, it can be seen when comparing the two films.