Evaluation

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

During this project I learnt how to use many different kinds of software including after effects and premier pro which i'd never used before. I used after effects to do my ident and I used Premier Pro for all of my editing and putting together of footage and sound. Camera wise there is so much you have to learn to create a good piece of footage. For example you don't realise how many things you have to take into consideration when filming at first! Like lighting, sound, angles etc and you never realise these mistakes until you upload the footage up on the computer for editing and then you have to go back and try and get hair, costumes and time of day the same as before, for continuity. There's alot of things to think about and when you're doing this work alone, it's up to you to think and remember them all. I learnt that although there are lot of effects you can add to your footage on Premier Pro it always looks and sounds better if you get it right while you are filming. When we filmed the bit where Stella is holding up the bracelet and looking out of the window, my mum turned the camera on it's side while holding it to get my whole upper body in, but still being close enough to see my facial expressions, however when it came down to editing when we flipped the footage 90'o round it didn't fit the rest of the footage as it had two empty black strips either side, we couldn't go back and re-film it however so I just layed the credits over the black space and it ended up looking pretty good in the end. These are little things you have to think about whilst filming that can lead to much greater complications later on, luckily I was able to work round mine and made something good out of it! There are some lines in my opening, however that are slightly muffled and even though I have turned up the sound on Premier Pro, it only goes up so high! And unfortuntely some of the lines cannot be heard, in these cases I did paste music over the top, so the lines are cut out, this added effect in the end anyway so was not too much of a problem, however if I was shooting a whole film, lines would be important and simply pasting music over them wouldn't be a solution. I leant how to record a voice over and then cut it up and paste it where I wanted in sync with a certain piece of footage all thanks to Premier Pro! Blogger.com has also allowed me to upload all my posts for my media work and Youtube allowed me to download my copyright free music, which saved the day! Overall technologie is hugely important in the film industry and has been the main component in the making of the opening of my film.