WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

Film camera. • Using the film camera proved to be a challenge at times. One

example would be the tracking shot we achieved in the first section. This was created due to the small car that was made with a motor to pull along the camera which was secured onto a 4 wheeled cart when attached to the car by string. We then stuck down curtain rails to allow the car to be pulled in a straight line. Even though the first few attempts were hard to get, as we had to make sure all the scene was in shot, we believe we achieved a successful tracking shot.

• Another time the camera was hard to use was when we had to get the close up shots of the science equipment. This was hard as we had to keep the camera still to get the effect we wanted. Keeping the camera still when we created a high angle shot was hard as we had to keep it balanced. Even though this was an obstacle we over same it and achieved the shot we wanted.

Adobe premier.• Before I started Media I had never used adobe premier. Due to

this it proved a challenge to learn the skills to make it effectively. One problem that we encountered was trying to make sure all of our footage flowed easily. As we didn’t film our footage in order of appearance, it was hard to cut it and then make sure it all made sense. However after a few attempts we achieved the edit that we wanted.• Another problem we found was trying to animate our

production company logo. We found a green screen smoke effect that we were able to use that we wanted to add over the image. As we didn’t know how to do this at first it proved to be a problem to find out how to achieve the effect we wanted. After looking at a few youtube tutorials and asking the technician, we were able to get what we wanted. • I now know how to use basic tools on adobe premier such as

cutting and adding titles.

Click the title drop down menu

Select ‘default still’

Choose the name of your title

The screen will appear like this where you can type what you want and add different fonts, colours and styles of writing

How to make a title in adobe premier

K’nex car. • In our opening sequence we wanted a tracking shot. Early on we found out that it would be a problem to create a good clean tracking shot with the equipment that we were able to use. Due to this we had to think of alternatives to create a good tracking shot. Again, we looked on YouTube and Google to look for ideas that would help us. One video we saw was a man using a small remote control car, this inspired us to try out this technique. As no one in our group had a remote control car that was stable enough for us to place a camera on top of, we decided to create a car out of k’nex. This was hard to create at first because we had to make sure the car held the weight of the camera. This was not going to happen so again we had to think of an alternative. We found a small 4 wheeled cart that the camera could be attached to that could be pulled along by the k’nex car. This was a successful idea as it helped us achieve the tracking shot we wanted.

Photoshop. • Working with Photoshop has been a struggle. When creating out

production companies we had an image in our heads that we needed to create. However when we actually came to create our production company logos we discovered that it was harder to actually make our initial ideas. For example creating our ‘test tube productions’ logo was difficult as we had to find an image that was exactly what we wanted which took a lot of time to find. we then had to edit it the way we wanted to make the writing look like smoke which none of us knew how to do. We looked on YouTube for tutorials and after finding on that we wanted to found out that making it look like smoke was easier than we originally thought. Using Photoshop has made me realize that it was a really useful piece of soft wear to understand as it can help make things look more creating and visually appealing.