WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM

THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS

PRODUCT?BY JAKE LEAT

To construct my film, I used a camera, tripod, a microphone, a windbreaker and a boom. To record the film, I used a Canon eos digital slr. I haven’t used a camera as much as I would have been using

one to record this film. What I had to do was fairly basic, performing a pan and getting the angle right for every shot. However I didn’t focus the camera for shots as I didn’t know how so I learnt how to

focus the camera which made the shots clear and a better quality. An advantage of this camera is that we could watch footage back after filming, on the other hand, a disadvantage was that it packed up all background noise and because of the dialogue was very unclear. To prevent this, I used a wind breaker

which blocked out all background noise to make the dialogue much clearer. The microphone also detected the speech which also made the speech clearer. Other technology I used were things like my phone where I recorded some dialogue to replace some speech which was very quiet, however this did

not work as it did not fit into the scene at all.

Equipment

SoundBecause of the dialogue being very unclear, I prevent this by using a wind

breaker which blocked out all background noise to make the dialogue much clearer. The microphone also detected the speech which also made the speech

clearer. Other technology I used were things like my phone where I recorded some dialogue to replace some speech which was very quiet, however this did not work as it did not fit into the scene at all. I used music which I found on a free music website. I chose the music as I felt it wold match the genre of my film and gave it a traditional feel which was what I was aiming for. This was successful as my target audience felt this as well. As I said I tried to use my

phone to replace quite speech which was did not work. To try and fix this again, I tried using Adobe Premiere Pro to alter the sound however this also did not

work. The only other option was re filming again.

TechnologyTo fuse my footage together, I used Adobe Premiere Pro. This technology is good as it is simple to use as you import all of your footage and then just select which ones you want to use. There was a lot of tools to use but the main ones I used to put the clips together was fades. The main fades I used were dip to blacks and

cross fades. The films which I researched into didn’t include many effects so I tried to keep it simple to make the genre clear. Things like my titles were very similar to ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Scarface’ as these were my main inspiration. For my titles I just used after effects which was also straight forward to use. I had only briefly

used after effects before in my GCSE project so I wasn’t overly confident but what I had to do didn’t require much skill as it was quite plan simple titles that just

faded in and out of the picture. The only major effect I used was the ‘type writer’ for my production company.