Evaluation: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

QUESTION 6
During the making of this film opening, we used a variety of different equipment to film, edit and for special effects.
The main piece of equipment we used was a camera (obviously). For the first scene we used a camera on a tripod to ensure the shot is steady.

We learnt quite a few things from using this camera (Panasonic) including the focus adjustments, and zoom effects. It was very easy to use and the different parts e.g. strap, handle proved to be very helpful and made it easier to use. Although, I think the screen could have been bigger so that whilst filming we could view it clearer. I also think the playback button could have been more visible as it took a while to find it.
The tripod was also very useful as it made sure the shot was steady during scene 1 and had an easy flowing movements for the establishing pan shots at the beginning.
We also used the same camera in steady cam for scenes 2 and 3. We didn't use a tripod for this as we wanted the shot to be shaky and look amateur. The side strap came in very useful for this.

Another piece of equipment we used was a sound recorder.

We used this to record all of the vocal sounds in our film opening such as Alex gasping and the whispering. This was our first time using this type of technology and although we only needed to know one button- record, we found that we had to re-record the scream because we learnt that if you hold the recorder too close to your mouth, if will make the sound too screechy, even when turned down.

To edit our film we used Adobe Premiere Pro

We had used this program before to edit our preliminary task, but only the simple effects. We learnt a lot of new effects that we used in our film opening.
For our final cut we didn't actually use any video transitions or effects. This was because we learnt that our video is better off without it and because a fade is meant to show the passing of time, we no longer needed it.
We did use different sounds in our film opening such as, the 2 different soundtracks in scene 1 and 3, the background sounds of the machines and the sound effects in scene 1.

To make these sounds more natural, I added transition effects such as 'exposition fade' to fade the sounds into the clip. I also learnt how to position the sounds to create dramatic effect. For example in the last scene where Matilda finds out she is 'the next one', the music cuts off to hear her say 'what?'. The silence adds dramatic effect and then the tense music used in scene 1 fades back and ends the film opening.

We also used Adobe After Effects to create our blood clip in scene 1. This was our first time using this and we learnt a lot about this program whilst using it such as creating a mask and adding a blur to make it look out of focus. We will definitely consider using this in future projects.

 To add our credits we added titles during scene 2. There wasn't any effects placed onto the titles which i think if we were to develop our product, we would maybe fade them in slightly.

 I think we have definitely learnt a lot from using Premiere Pro and other programs in the process of constructing this product and we will take these skills and develop further in future projects.

Here I have made a mind map of all the online technology we have used during the construction of this project. A lot of these programs/websites, we hasn't used before so we learnt a lot from them.