Evaluation - Question 6

Evaluation - Question 6

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

To create this final piece, i used some technology that i had used previously, but i also used some new pieces of technology which i had not used before. To create the final piece we used a software called "I Movie" which allowed us to put all of recorded videos on the computer and then edit them, piece them together and add what ever else was needed to create our final video. I have had previous expieriance with "I movie" as I had also used it during my GCSE film course when we had to create a film for our final piece, so this technology for me was easy to use and I had no trouble working on this software. This software was good and helped our film look more professional, this is because it allowed us to get all of our clips that had been recorded and then edit them until they were prefect, wether that was trimming them so they wernt so long and we had what we needed, cutting up the clip to make it look like the scenes were jumping like towards the end of our film, or adding effects on the scenes to make it look like they were from the past like the scenes in the beginning of our film, or when we increased or decreased the speed on the scenes to make it look more professional, like the scene where Tommy cuts Emily's throat. This all helped our film look more professional because it made sure the film always had something important happening, and it made the film more enjoyable to view and more professional because time had been taken to edit it and make it better than just a few recordings stuck together and played. 

We also used another piece of software during the creation of our film and this was called "Motion". This is a video software where you can create title sequences or professional looking clips where you can include text and pictures. I had never had any experiance with motion before and was unaware of how to use the software and did find it difficult to use at first, but we only used it to create the title sequence and picture collage and it quickly became easy to understand the more I used it, and eventually it was used to create a very successful part of our film. This software did help our film look and be presented more professional because it enabled us to really go into depth with the details of the picture collage scene and the title sequence. It gave us a smooth transition between the pictures in the collage and the title sequence, which helped our film look more professional. We did come into a problem when I tried to speed up the scenes as the motion file was originally to long and would have made our final piece go over our time limit, but when I tried to speed up the transitions and effects within the motion clip, it wouldn't work so I had to export the file, upload it into "I movie" and then edit the clip from there before re exporting it and then uploading it into the main final project. Although it caused some hastle and was hard to use, it replaced the basic and dull title sequence that we had to use from "I movie" and did improve our film by making it look more professional and enabling us to have a lot more customisation with our title sequence.

Another software called "Adobe Photoshop" was also used during the creation of our film to help the picture collage scene. We had planned to take pictures of both Tommy and Brooke as a couple but they all looked the same because of the scenery and wether, therefore we used photoshop to place both Brooke and Tommy on a bench in a park and add more of a differance between the pictures that were used. "Photoshop" is a software that is very easy for me to use as I use it in almost all my subjects and have had to use it also in previous subjects very often. With the use of this program enabling us to edit the photos we were able create a more professional looking collage due to the photos each individually looking differant and also professional. It also helped us improve our final piece as we were able to make the photo collage look more realistic and believable to the audience. 

One of the main pieces of technology we used was the video cameras. These cameras were high grade and recorded in high definition, this enabled us to capture footage which we would use within our final piece that would look clear and professional. I have had previous experience with video cameras as I took a film GCSE course and used video cameras within this course to create a final piece, however I had never used a high grade camera like this before. The camera was very easy to use as it has a basic start/stop recording button and we only really used it to capture footage. Using this camera really did help make our film look more professional because the quality of the video was in clear high definition. The camera also had a flexible screen so we could place it on the floor but flip the screen around, this way we could still see what was being recoded without having to lay on the floor with the camera and because of this we were able to capture footage from all angles with ease and still looking professional. Using this camera compared to a standard, handheld camera did improve our final piece because it enabled us I capture high qaulity and professional footage from any angle and shot with great ease.