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- 1. 6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process
of constructing this product?
2. Camera Equipment
The camera we used to film our sequence is a Sony HD camera which
is shown to the left of the document. The HD stands for hard drive
not high definition so the quality could have been alot better but
the only HD cameras available are kept in the studio, which were
not available for us to loan out so are not a practical piece of
equipment to use with the time period we were working with. however
this hard drive camera was always available for us to use which is
exactly what we needed.As you can see its not very advanced so
wasnt difficult to use and adapt settings to exactly what we wanted
to ensure we got the best quality for each of our shots. But the
only weakness to this is that it isn't a high definition camera
which means it give us adequate quality but working with the actual
HD cameras in the studio would have give alot more of a
professional finish to the clips. We also used a tripod for some
specific parts of our sequence because we needed them to be very
still and in deep focus which ensures the best quality possible.
however sometimes placing the tripod in specific places caused it
to fall over right in the middle of a scene which took us alot
longer to capture a perfect sequence.
3. Problems in filming process
The problems we did face when filming were very minor and were
easily worked around but mentioning them in this question is still
appropriate. As our group of actors were personal friends of ours
and are not actually from our class it was hard to work out
specific meeting times to film each part of the sequence as we all
have different free periods due to our study blocks, so we mainly
used dinner times to film as we could then all be together as a
group. Also getting the actual equipment together as well as the
actors was a nightmare because you are only allowed equipment out
for a specific time period and whenever we got the group together
nothing was available for us to use. So we had to re think shooting
when everyone could meet up and we could get what we needed from
the camera store.Because we started filming in January it was still
winter so the weather was always un certain and some days we were
all ready to film the cloudy grey skies didnt link to our sunny
spring beginning so meant we had to keep re scheduling and just
wait for a sunny day to come which again meant we had to hope the
actors were available as well as the equipment we needed.
But after all of these problems were dealt with the filming moved
on quickly and we managed to get it all done in a fast period of
time.
4. New equipment used
After planning on what equipment would be best for us to use
throughout our sequence we then thought how we could adapt them to
make it look more professional. We decided to film one of our main
scenes of our victim being tied up by the villain in the TV studio
because we had the chance to use more developed equipment such as
studio lights and a backdrop to add to the dark and chilling
atmosphere we wanted to give off. We had to book time in the studio
but this wasnt as hard as booking out a camera as its rarely used,
it meant we had the full space to work with and show off our skills
with the range of technologically developed equipment which were
all of a lot better quality than the normal hard drive camera and
tripod which was of a minimal quality to the tension we wanted to
add.
5. Editing I Movie
After putting all of the clips onto our desktop we firstly open
them separately into a simple program called I Movie which means
you can put them into a timeline of the way they ran and also add
some effects to each one as they go on and off the screen which are
not the things we needed for our horror convention sequence, as I
believe the tension is created through the sound you use and the
sequence just works around that. After cropping each clip to
exactly how long we needed it to be and changing the contrast of
colours to add the suspense and tension we then released that it
was too much of a simple program to use especially if we wanted to
make ourfilm look more professional as it didnt give us the
independent editing skills we wanted to use, but did work well when
putting the sequence in order because it was easy to
understand.
6. Editing LiveType
After putting all of our clips in order we then decided to
concentrate on the titles of each of the actors and the actual
title of our film because we wanted them to link into our genre of
film we didnt want to create them on a normal word document as this
wouldnt of added to the overall effect of the horror convention so
instead using live type give us a wide range of different titles
and colours to choose from which we got inspiration from the film
orphan when the titles look as though the have been quickly
sketched down and we thought it looked really intense and added to
the tension of the overall storyline.
7. Editing Final Cut
As I talked about earlier after putting all of our sequence
together in the simple I movie program we thought it would be more
professional to use a more developed editing software which is when
final cut came in. I believe it gives us more independence and
confidence to show the skills we have learnt throughout the
academic year and put them to good use. This program is hard to
deal with at first because of the large range of different settings
you can use but its much more professional even in the way you can
cut down different scenes and add in sounds at the same time. Final
cut however does take a lot longer to work out and in our situation
we did have to re cut every scene to link back together as we lost
all of the work we did on I movie so for future reference I
woulddefinitely do any editing of the sequence and overall
presentation of the sequence in final cut because its a lot more
advanced and makes us as students look a lot more professional in
the way we produce the film.
8. Image of Final Cut Program
9. Editing - Sound
Garage band is a program a lot of people in the class have used to
create sounds and a final soundtrack for their sequence but because
we tried to create one and didnt know how to use it as no one in
our group has seen it before we decided instead of wasting time we
would just find copyright free sound effects to add to our sequence
which we both believed linked in well to the suspense and tension
we wanted to create. Both main sound effects are of a girl with a
very eerie and distinctive sound which we thought will be
remembered but also shock viewers which links back to the modern
traditional convention.
As you can see garage band has lots of options to choose from and
we didnt know how to use it so took another outlook on a sound
program.
I Tunes above looks a lot more simple which made it easier for us
to pick sounds and overall they were more effective to the
convention.