Evaluation Question 6

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

Through out the process of researching, preparing and creating our film production we have used several types of technologies which includes software and equipment.
Doing our planning and research for our film, we mainly used familiar Rom Com films that we were already aware of and liked using DVD's and Televisions.

 We used some research on Google to find out what the top selling Rom Com's were and why, also to find the best film distrubutor to distrubute our film. We used Youtube to find film trailers, other AS Media Film Openings and any other scenes or clips to help with research towards our film opening. The most major technology we have used through out this whole process has been Blogger. Blogger has helped us blog all our major transitions in filming, focusing on our editing updates, all details about our film icluding cast, characters and our group and their jobs. We have also used Prezi for our blogs several times this has helped make our blogs be at its highest standard.

 

 

 

During our construction process we used the more technical equipment for our product - this was majorly for filming so this included:

• Panasonic Camera Recorder
• Boom/Microphone
• Foley Sound
• Computer Software - Sony Vegas
• Photoshop
• Recording Equipment - For Recording Music
• Camera

All our computer software for editing and creating our film was done using Sony Vegas, Photoshop, Windows Media and Movie Maker. These were all fairly easy to use and get the hang of,  they made our film production as good as it could be with its media features. The problems we did face with some of the technologies we used were, the amount of time it took to render the film, the software could be temperamental when trying to bring up the software it kept popping up with a message saying it couldn't find the chosen file, this caused quite a few complications for me and my group.

For the technical equipment we used, the camera etc. was very easy to understand and use having used one before this made it easier for us to use. After filming for three weekends and after school on a few occasions we managed to get some lovely shots and scenes that we were happy with to create our film.

Arren used for photoshop in our group this was used for our logo which created ourselves - Ginger Nut Productions. Using photo shop showed how much we had developed in our editing and Arren used this with ease and simply. This technology takes our production to the next level as it showing the boundaries we have taken to make our film as best as it can be.

In terms of technical aspects for our film, grasping how to use and adjust the lighting, sound, editing, diagetic and non - diagetic music and so on. Adjusting these elements and adding extra to our media product was simple and easy to understand, cleverly we learnt how to adjust the sound by making it louder and quieter in the necessary scenes. Adding the titles in the correct format which was using slide left, in white and using the font Lucinda Calligraphy - this proved quite difficult to space it out evenly in our film, in the correct places on the screen so that it looked professional and in the same place on the screen to show continuity. Also with the colour of the titles being white in some places on some scenes it was hard to see, so adjusting it to the right scene in the right place proved quite difficult and time consuming.

Using the fade on the editing process was a really useful technology for our film especially for the titles it makes them look more professional and more classy, also we use a very significant fade in after one scene to show time has passed, this works really well and focuses are point of time passing perfectly. The sound was easy to adjust we technically learned how to move sound around and adjust sound to a particular environment, we moved sound around on the fade where time passes using Lucy's voice while the screen is black creating a nice effect, also we used a different type of technical element with the key hole shot, we used a muffled sound to show that we can hear Jonathan's voice outside and then contrasting by hearing his voice inside afterwards. The lighting we adjusted with a new element we learned about on the last shot of our film opening when Jay says "Errrr....I can explain!" We adjusted the lighting to match the previous shot, as we filmed it in a more darker spot and in a shadow we had to contrast the final scene to make it slightly lighter, this worked well although it is slightly distorted but the lighting works well.

Overall learning and progressing with all the technologies we have used through out our film opening I think they have worked really well and taken our film to the best it could be, considering the time we have had and the equipment we had access to I am happy with outcome we have.