How did you use media technologies in the construction and research,planning and evaluation stages?

RESEARCH
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

The livetype tutorial was particularly useful in deciding which programme to use for the title of the film. The livetype tutorial showed us all the useful font animations available and this helped in making the decision to use livetype.

PLANNING

 We started by storyboarding every shot we had

planned for our for our film, however we wanted to see if these shots synchronized with our script and if it was visually impressive.



We felt that final cut pro was the appropriate software to use as we knew it had a feature which alowed you add stills into the time line and re-order/edit this material adding differences in the time the still appears for.

We then decided to record over and add it on to the edited storyboard using final cut . We made the sound and shots appear at the same time in the way that we would expect them too in our film.

We also took this oppurtunity to cut uneccessary shots and lines that didnt work as well as we planned.

This is our finished anamatic

CONSTRUCTION

We decided to use a High Definition camera instead of a standard definition camera as we knew it would give our film a better picture quality and more detailed imagery.HD cameras generally have a larger memory therefore allowing more footage to be filmed. The camera allowed us to re-shoot things from different angles and incorporate a selection of camera shots. We filmed using this camera and due to wide range of features we were able to shoot things using affects from the camera, this sped up the time for decisions and revisions during the editing process as some tools were located on the camera.

We used  Adobe premier pro to edit our footage as it hosted a variety of features and editing tools that we needed in order to create the image we had planned during pre production. One of the tools [as shown above] was the use of the widescreen format and Adobe allowed us to alter the width at which we wanted the black strips.

We sorted through the various shots using the right viewer screen and edited using the left, this tool was particularly useful in decreasing the time in which the editing took place as it offered a form of multi -tasking.

In a specific scene we needed the editing to coordinate with the music and so we used the "FIT" option and blue icon to cut shots in conjuction with the beats of the music.

We used Adobe to create a purple filter to seperate the present from the past creating a dreamy effect. Using colour correction we were able to tint and brighten aspects of the filter incorporating othe colours such as blue,green this gave us space to experiment.

EVALUATION

I exported my film from Adobe Premier Pro into Imovie as i had experiance in using voiceovers in Imovie. However i developed my knowledge as i uploaded the voiceover from an external hardrive and edited my footage in conjuction to my voice over.

I used the 'easy speak' microphone to record my voiceover as it was easy and simple to record without having to do in one take. The ability to stop the recording meant that i could take breaths to ensure that i carried on speaking at the same rate and volume throughout. This helps my commentry in becoming as coherant as possible.