What I have learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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The document discusses the technologies used in creating a film production. It describes using a Sony A57 camera for its image quality and control settings. It discusses using a tripod, microphone, and Adobe software like Premiere Pro and After Effects. Lighting was used to set a gloomy atmosphere for the horror genre. YouTube, Tumblr, and Scribd were utilized to share and discuss the work.
What I have learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- 1. What I have learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product? Jacob Straffon
- 2. • Our production was filmed on a Sony A57 (picture shown below) • We decided to use this camera instead of the school cameras because the quality was better and we could control the settings on the camera more easily. • The camera also had a flip out screen, therefore we could line up very high angle shots and still see what we were doing. • I learnt how to navigate my way around this camera. How to focus it, how to change the aperture to let the right amount of light into the camera. Therefore we could experiment with how shots would look. • I think I’ve learnt to use the camera well, however I should have taken more of a hands on approach to using it, to get more experience with how it works. The Camera
- 3. • At points of filming we had to keep the camera steady. • The tripod was the most useful piece of equipment we used to keep the camera steady. The tripod had a ball where the camera was, which meant we could tilt the camera and film, but still keep it steady. • However we did not use the tripod all the time. When we wanted to create shaky, disorientated shots we held the camera manually, therefore the movement of our bodies created camera shake. • Here is an example picture of us using the tripod to keep the camera steady. I think we used the tripod efficiently and effectively, we only used it when needed and when we did use it created the desired effect . Steady Camera
- 4. 1) We used a Microphone On evaluation I think we used the and boom to record sound. Microphone professionally and used it to it’s full potential. 5) At one point we 2) The mic is plugged recorded some sound into the left of the through the floor. camera where the jack Therefore the sound fits. was slightly muffled 3) The mic is then creating the effect connected to that lead that the sound was and is optionally from a different connected to the boom room. We learnt that pole. the recording would 4) If you connect the mic to the sound different boom pole you can stand further off depending on where camera and get the mic closer to the the sound is recorded source of the sound. In the picture from. Microphone shown above we did not use the boom pole because it was not needed to record as much sound.
- 5. • We learnt the effect of different lighting. • Our sequence is a horror, therefore we decided that dark lighting would be the most appropriate. It makes the atmosphere feel gloomy and unwelcoming. Therefore this haunted house would not appeal to the audience , this helps them identify with the characters’ fear. Personally I believe the lighting choice successfully conveyed what we wanted. • If the lighting was bright then the house would seem too welcoming and safe. Lighting
- 6. The Screen to the left is used to watch specific These are all of the clips or listen to specific shots we audio clips before putting filmed, they’re all them onto the timeline. named The screen to the right is appropriately, theref used to watch the whole ore it’s easy to find video. the clip we want. These are where all the video and audio files are placed, you These are all the tools that help you adjust the video and drag and drop them onto the timeline, you can use the audio audio files. You can cut and move the files depending on blocks to adjust sound levels at certain parts of the video. which tool you use. I think we used Premiere Pro to it’s full Premiere Pro potential. The cuts are smooth and the sound flows well.
- 7. These tools can be used to This tool is used to navigate navigate around the around Premiere Pro. It can also timeline. The icon to the be used to select things and crop left can be used to scroll video clips. across the timeline of the video, and the icon to the This tool can be used to right can be used to either cut up clips. We used this zoom in or out of the tool when creating the fast timeline. When you zoom paced static effect. We cut in you can make more fine up the clip into segments changes to the video, creating fast paced cuts. when you’re zoomed out Below is a screen shot of you can see generally how how the static clips looked the video flows. when cut. Editing tools we used
- 8. • As you can see in the images below we layered video clips in our production. We used L cuts and J cuts. This is an L cut. The sound This is a J cut. The sound of the previous clip carries from the next clip starts on onto the next before the video. This shot, therefore making the makes a smooth transition cut smoother. between cuts. To overlay videos you have to place the different clips into different audio and video tracks. By adding more video and audio tracks you can overlay more clips. Layering video clips
- 9. To create a new title click title at the top of Premiere Pro; then click new title, default still. After selecting default still this box appears. This allows you to select the track name and the video settings. Title
- 10. This is the window you use when you’re creating your title. This part of the These tools can window can be be used to used to edit the change the properties of texts’ position. the text. You We did not use can change the any of these position of the tools because text, the font the window had properties (the already made font style, font our text size etc.), the central, which is colour and the what we opacity (how wanted. see-through it is) and the texture of the font. This is where you select the font you want for your title. We decided on choosing a font that looked a bit like static, black and white. You can choose other fonts from the drop down menu above. You can also choose whether you want your font to be bold, italic or underlined. Titles 2
- 11. This is the static after we created As you can see it. It created we made the the effect static clip 12 we wanted seconds in our long, therefore sequence. we had more than enough footage to use. This is the After Effects window. We used After effects After Effects to create a static effect for our CCTV shots.
- 12. This is the After creating the static effect After Effects we saved it and imported it into effect panel. Premiere Pro. We then used it in We wanted our titles. We cut it up into to create a small sections to create a fast static effect. paced title that created more We added fear onto the audience. allot of noise to the image to create this. After Effects
- 13. We used Adobe Audition to import sounds into When the track is on Premiere Pro (see next the timeline we can slide for more info). change the key These are some of the frames to allow the sounds we downloaded. track to change All of these sounds were volume at various used to create points, therefore you atmosphere in our can fade in the sound sequence. We dragged or fade it out. This the sound clips onto the means there is a sequences timeline smoother transition sometimes overlaying between audio them to create a fearful tracks.. atmosphere. Audio
- 14. This the screen for Adobe Audition. We used Adobe audition to find sounds for our sequence. The panel to the right of the screen is where you find the sounds. You can use the search bar to search for specific sound or you can just use the dropdown menu to choose a category to look through. To download a track you have to click the small arrow, once the loading screen is complete- you simply drag the audio clip into Adobe premiere. Adobe Audition
- 15. This is the timeline from our video after we finished editing, using all the things I learnt about Premiere Pro. The timeline
- 16. When you click on When you click When you When you this icon you can this icon you click this click this icon post blocks of text can post photos icon you can you can post to your Tumblr onto our post links to videos straight blog. You can also Tumblr. You websites. to Tumblr via embed things in can add text to This is YouTube, just Tumblr such as the end of your useful for by copying the documents from photos referring to web address of Scribd or videos describing what examples of the video. from YouTube. they are. media You can do this by websites. clicking this icon. Tumblr
- 17. This is how my Tumblr looks. I think the theme is very important because it always creates the first impression of my blog. I chose this theme because I thought it was very appropriate. As you can see to the right some of the posts are displayed on screens with a film cameras projecting them. Since I’m studying film I thought this was suitable. Tumblr Continued
- 18. • We used YouTube to upload our videos. • After uploading our videos to YouTube we can embed them into our blogs. • We have learnt the importance of tags. When uploading your video to YouTube you have various things you can fill out; one is the title (The Waiting), the description of the video and the tags. The tags make it easier to search and find your video on YouTube, you would tag your video with appropriate words e.g. horror, scary, media. • A link to the Chew Valley Media YouTube channel is linked to the title below… YouTube
- 19. • Scribd is an online method of uploading documents to share. • By signing in and clicking upload you can upload any document of your own to Scribd. • Once the document is uploaded you can embed your document to Tumblr via clicking the embed button and copying and pasting the embed code into Tumblr. • Scribd has been very useful because it meant that we could post our storyboards and scripts to Tumblr.
- 20. • Prezi has been very useful for showing my evaluation of my sequence. It gives us a different way of presenting our work, by creating almost a video presenting our points. • You first get to choose a theme for your Prezi. Each theme conveys a different message e.g. for my Prezi on distributors I used a magnifying glass theme, as if I’m looking into the subject. • You can add videos and photos onto Prezi to make it more elaborate.