Evaluation Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Pre production

While doing this project I have learnt that there is so much different types of technologies needed in order to finish and get everything sorted. For example we had to start with the website 'Blogger'. This is where we share all our work and put it on one blog for the public to see. By using 'Blogger' we were able to put up all of our work to show step by step of how we were slowly getting there into making our film and I made blog posts of our pre production such as story boards in advance so audience are able to get a good idea of what our film was going to be about.

As i was in a group of 2 it made it easier to share work and get it across to each other. We were able to use a Microsoft one drive and use the power point on that. This made it so much easier when we looking for fonts as One drive is on the internet and allows more than one person to both edit in live time which let us work on it at the same time getting fonts which both of us may have liked.

When doing blogs to compare our film to other films we would get stills of films from the website Dropbox. This would allow us all to get pictures ready from the films we have been studying about and put them in our blog posts to speak about.

In order to get a rough idea and inspiration for our film we used popular media source YouTube in order to find relevant films like ours to get an understanding on how we can make ours. This helped us take ideas in order to get the highest marks available.

Production

When making our film we had to use different technologies in order to make it smooth and intriguing to watch. First of all we had to use the obvious which was a 1080P Camera. This allowed us to mess around and try many different shots in order to pick a final shot. The camera had many features also which helped us in making the filming much easier. For example when creating different shots we were able to flip the screen in order to make the filming more comfortable in our hands to see how our shot looked before filming it. The playback feature on our camera let us see everything we had recorded along with all the audio to see what we liked the most.

In order to have all the storage on the camera we used a standard 32GB SD card which meant that it didn't matter if we had any rough cuts on our storage as we had plenty space to make mistakes. Both the products used in this production are affordable and easily accessible allowing many people who are willing to start out on a smaller scale to use this type of equipment along with free software and video sharing websites such as YouTube.

In conclusion for our production, the affordable camera allowed us to do a variety of shots which made our film look interesting and eye catching while allowing us to create many different shots to make the perfect film.

Post Production

Finally, in order to get all our work together we used an editing software called premier pro. This is where we were able to make our film the best it could be by editing it with a range of features for example adding a soundtrack to it which would ass intensity to the film and cause tension.

Our limit for our film was 2 minutes long but as we didn't film as much as we would have wanted we only made our film 1 minute and 30 seconds but it was okay as it was still in the boundaries of the minimum we were allowed.

By having the SD card we were able to slot it into the computer for easy access and put all our cuts onto premier pro to start editing. Premier pro allowed us to go through all the shots we had so even the terrible ones which let us delete them and left us with all the ones we needed. This process had sped up everything as we eventually were left will all the shots we needed in order to make our film. During the editing we learnt new things which we may have never learned before for example adding fonts to the film while it is playing or something simple such as a fade onto the next scene but with the deadline set we were able to play around with the software as we were given a reasonable amount of time to have completed the project.

We also learnt how to add sound beds to our film so if we had two different scenes we were able to go from one season to the other without the sound sounding horrible when transitioning. This can very important for future purposes as sound is the most important part of a film in my opinion.

Overall, the use of premier pro from our previous prelim task gave us basic knowledge on how to use the software but as this project was graded we had to use that previous knowledge and do much more which gave us good and enjoyable experience when creating our films.