Evaluation Question 6
- 1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?
- 2. Cameras We used brand new cameras for this task. The cameras were in HD and helped us to create a better quality for the final outcome. The new cameras allowed us to put the SD card straight into the macs and operate straight from them. The disadvantage to using the new cameras was that because they use a lot of battery to operate if you forget to charge the camera it takes a very long time to recharge it up. We had this problem so we had to go home and recharge the camera and then to re film another day. The other problems we faced was that the SD card was full however to overcome this we just deleted something off the card and film only bits we were going to use. This new equipment helped us compared to our preliminary task we had to use the old cameras and they were difficult so this new equipment helped us a lot.
- 3. Tripod and the Dolly • The tripod allowed us to shoot scenes that we wanted without shaking. This allowed us to shoot scenes at a low level and effectively with no shaking. • The dolly is a new piece of equipment that the school had bought and one of the shots we used it for. This shot has been one of our best shots as it is unique and when watching it looks very effective. • The dolly had parts in the middle and we found a problem with it bumping when it went from post to post. We then pushed the two parts together to create a secure lock between the two poles. This helped us to shoot that shot without it bumping and shaking.
- 4. I Macs and Websites • The I macs were a good tool for us to use as we could edit our films. The iMacs were new to the school two years ago. They are great to use because they are very quick to operate and had all the software needed to edit and post our videos and other things online. • They were good for podcasting as they had a very good microphone built in for us to use. However they had some let downs as when you needed to find your movie file you would have to load up on the same mac every time. • We used the site blogger to upload everything for our blogs this was easier as it allowed us to use different types of media to vary what we were producing. For example you would never be able to put a video on an A3 folder. This allowed us to use different presentational devices. • We used YouTube to upload our videos and our construction posts it was a good tool as it allowed us to upload a lot of footage however it was difficult to upload in school because the macs wouldn’t allow us to upload. However all we did to counter this was to upload our stuff at home.
- 5. Lighting We used the new lighting rig to do the scene where tom gets flashing lights on his face. This was a good piece of equipment as it had pre-set flashes so all we had to do was set the colours up with the gels and then film him In the chair. We had some problems at the start as we didn’t know how to use them however with trial and error we managed how to work out the flashing part of the lights and we were able to use them.
- 6. Editing • The editing was done on a software called I movie it was a software that was on the iMac. The process of adding the clips together was very simple to operate. • We learnt many effects within I movie and in the scenes where tom is going crazy we filmed that in real time and speed it up using the inbuilt fast-forward editing tool. We used transitions which were on iMovie to increase effect when doing the jump cuts. It had an effect to change the colour of the film and for the last part that was very effective. • We had a problem with the titles because we exported it with the titles then as we went to change them we couldn’t as they were embedded into the film. To counter this we had to re edit the bits with the raw footage and replace the same bit of film with titles into the film without titles.
- 7. Sound The sound that we used in the film was produced on Garageband or was default on the iMovie program. For the twig snap we used a natural twig and then snapped it and recorded it on Garageband on the macs. The sound that you hear screeching was created by accident and it came from when we were talking during the filming of toms crazy scene in the lights. When we speed it up it sounded like that. We decided to use this sound in our opening and it works very well to build a loud and annoying sound.