6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of onstructing this product?

Here is a wordle of some of the main technological effects, strategies and equipment I found useful when making our film:

 

Through the time we have spent producing and creating this thriller, I feel my media skills have developed immensely. Before this I had only used a DSLR camera, now I have learnt how to use a boom pole, a voice recorder, a tripod and how to edit footage together to make a film I'm now very proud of.

 

Generally when producing the film I just tested a lot of the effects we could use, however I took inspiration from a few videos in order to help shape our ideas and make them happen. I was very interested in the editing techniques they used in the production of the bone collector. Here is a link to the trailer of the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4z4Xsp-bos

 I also used a few YouTube tutorials to teach me how to use the basics of premier pro. I also watched a few videos which taught us how to use lighting to change the atmosphere of a scene. They helped develop are ideas about thrillers.  

 

Before this I had never done any editing before. When making the preliminary film I stuck mainly to filming side of the production. However when completing the main task I spent a lot of time sat in our media room constantly making adjustment's to our product and testing different effects.

 

Firstly, in terms of software, I felt premiere pro was the best and easiest technology for me to use when editing our footage and sequencing our film. It had so many different styled visual effects and audio effects, making it easier for me to decide which suited our style of film better. It was easy to access all the effects and to edit the footage together. As a first time user I was expecting it to take me a lot longer to pick up than it did, which helped speed up the process.

 

Here is the graphic match I edited for the opening of our film (using premiere pro)

 Here I overlapped two clips and altered the opacity on the face:

 It then faded out back to the shot of the moon:

 

Secondly, in terms of hardware we decided it would be best to use a DSLR camera. We wanted to use the DSLR because of the exceptional resolution it provides. It is easy enough to transport and use, for when we needed to carry the equipment to different locations.

 

Lastly, our film has been put on YouTube. I think YouTube is the best possible place to put our film, as the website is very popular already. Also it comes up with suggestions down the side when viewers are watching similar videos. This will help market our film as well as being a reliable format and delivers high resolution.