What have you learnt about technologies from the
- 1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 2. Preproduction Before production we knew that we were going to use the sony HD 1000 cameras as they are better quality and we wanted our film to look more accurate and detailed. I reckon the hand held cameras are ideal for people who are wanting to shoot their film using the hand held/ shaky camera technique . We didn’t plan to shoot our film that way therefore we had no use for a hand held camera.
- 3. Production During our production we used a zoom recorder to create a voice over for our film, we used it for our flash back scene, we recorded Robyn telling the story of what is happening throughout her flash back. It worked really well and was a lot more effective than if we just recorded the sound with the filming, it gave it an unrealistic finish as the world doesn’t suddenly turn black and white and begin to play surreal music with an unknown voice speaking throughout.
- 4. Post production To edit our footage we used a software called ‘final cut express’. Final cut express is a great editing software and I found it really helpful especially when it came to editing our last scenes of the flash back. We went through a variety of colours and washes on those scenes but we finally agreed on black and white with a slight glow to give it more of a flashback feel. There was also the changeover from reality to flashback and we decided to use a fire turning into a cigarette being lit, final cut express able us to perform a smooth transition from those two scenes using a fade in, it worked extremely well and it honestly couldn’t have gone any better.
- 5. Using new technology At the start of AS media I had no idea how to use the camera or final cut express. However, I learnt to use them quite rapidly and picked up a lot of skills along the way, I now feel comfortable in using these technologies. My strongest asset that I contributed towards my group was my editing skills, considering I didn’t help much with the filming due to me having most screen time I made up for it through editing our film together and adding all the finishing touches on and making sure we were fully happy with it before exporting our film. Even though I had a chance at filming during the scenes where I wasn’t included I still feel as though I could’ve learnt more within that area of our production, the rest of the group had a better knowledge as they were using the cameras all the time, therefore, In my opinion this was my weakest point.
- 6. Blogger Blogger is a new technology to me and at first it seemed quite strange to be uploading my work onto a blog as I always saw blogs to be used for social purposes rather than educational. As I got to used to blogger it seemed logical to be uploading my work onto blogger, it made things a lot simpler and easier to manage, I knew where all my work was and what needed to be done.