Evaluation 4
- 1. How did you use digital technology in your production work?
- 2. Final Cut Pro • When I filmed my short movie I used the software called final cut pro which is an editing site. After filming scenes of the movie I plugged the cannon filming camera into the computer and downloaded all the clips onto the software this was log and transfer, we could then watch the clips back and decide what worked and what didn’t then cut and place things into the timeline to make the film flow. • We also decided to edit the film colour and turn the clips into black and white to give the film a haunting look and some of the transitions that we edited in turned certain scenes blood red. • In final cut pro we could also put in sound effects which made the film better and also we could add in music from garageband which we created and layered them on top of the clips.
- 3. Garageband • Whilst in the filming process we used Garageband which was a very useful software to use. The reason we used garageband was because it was easy and simple to use and we were able to record a music soundtrack to the movie as well as using sound effects like phone calls, and the sound of a clock, we also used it for voice overs. • For the film we needed to create a tense atmosphere and we were able to do so by using this programme. • Garageband also let us turn up the volume and turn it down on voice clips.
- 4. Photoshop/InDesign • Photoshop was used a lot in the process of creating a poster for the film that we made. Photoshop let me upload images that I have taken with the cannon camera and upload them onto the programme and allowed me to edit the images the way I wanted them to look, and also let me change the brightness and contrast of the image to create a more sinister look for the image to go with the genre of the film. It also let me cut out backgrounds from the image with the magic background eraser. Photoshop also allowed me to create and experiment with different texts and styles. Photoshop allowed me to create a professional looking movie poster. • Another programme I used to create my double page spread interview was InDesign, this allowed me to use columns and margins to be able to make the article more professional, it also allowed me to do the same as Photoshop in the sense of editing images.
- 5. Web 2.0 • Over the course of this project I have used many web 2.0 sites such as Blogger which was the main one as I uploaded all my work for the project onto this site. Blogger is very useful because it doesn’t have a post limit and it also looks good to present work. • Another website I used was Prezi which is a programme which I can use to display my work in a more interesting way than just a word document, this again is the same as Glogster, which I can add images, text and video clips. • Before creating a film I used a programme called Go Animate which is a site to create a film using cartoon characters so you can see how it is going to look when shooting the film, however we created a go animate for the old movie idea. • Slideshare was another useful programme that I used a lot over the project, this allowed me to create power points then present them in a slide to upload onto my blog. • Other websites such as Google was also very useful during the project and helped with research ideas like looking at typical conventional movie posters and double page spreads, also with images that I used to make glogs and other power points.
- 6. Cannon Camera • To shoot our film we used a cannon filming camera, this was so that we could shoot our film and make it look professional as it was a high definition camera. By using this type of camera we were able to use focus and also zoom in and out to get better close-ups. We could also take pictures on the camera which we used in a scene of our film so that came in use, we also used a tripod to make sure the shots didn’t shake and make the film look messy and unprofessional. By using this type of camera it was easy to carry around as it was small and we were able to watch clips back to see if they worked.