Evaluation 6

What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this film?

Throughout the process of contructing our AS media project, from the beginning we learnt about the different film institutions in the industry as we would have to aim our film to one, like for our film Warp Films.


We also looked into how to direct the piece in different camera angles, such as, a range of close ups, mid-shots, long- shots, low-angle, high-angle over the shoulder shots and two shots, from a range of different angles, I could portray into how a character is feeling or, I could change the way in which I wanted the audience to feel about the characters, such as using a low angle shot on Amelia would portray a vunerability to her, as an audiece feel as though you are looking down on her.

Obviously we had to learn how to use the cameras and tripod, using a canon MD325 digital video camcorder and a Velbon DV 7000 Tripod, we intially learnt how to use the camera and tripod when filming our prelim video, where we practiced using different camera angles to form continuity editing.

 After filming our footage for both our prelim and our film, we then had to edit it, using Adobe Premier Pro, we could put our footage onto a timeline and edit in the way we wanted, we could also use a variety of effects such as, cross fade, dip to black, for video transitions, a cross fade for audio transitions and slowing some of the footage down. All these effects helped with continunity editing and made the film flow and look/sound alot better. We could also use titles, where we could put the Title of the film, actors names and

editors and directors. 

Computer used for editing

Picture of editing on Adobe Premier Pro

I also learnt how to do things like import JPEG files and importing things onto my timeline and to export also to AVI, as well as using Adobe Premier Pro, when designing our logo we uses Photoshop to edit and make it look how we wanted. We had to learn how to use this as I had never used it before, but after doing so we found it had all the effects we needed.

Photoshop:

Whilst doing all this I also learnt how to blog, as we had to post throughout making our project about how we were doing, what were were doing, planning, or any problems. We did this on blogspot.

Overall with all these new technologies, I was able to make the production everything I wanted it to be and make the film look better with varied effects.