Evaluation

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process

of constructing this product?

Throughout this project I have used various different technologies to help us achieve different effects for our opening scene of our film. I also used blogger document the journey in that I took to plan and produce our final film. To edit our final film we used Final Cut Pro 10 because it is a professional software that we could use. We use the Nikon D3200 which is able to record at 1080p at 24 frames per second.

Blogger

At the beginning of this project we were told to create a blog so we could upload all of our plans and storyboards that have helped us be able to produce our opening scene. Using blogger meant that I was able to keep a record of everything I have done to plan for our film. Using blogger meant that I could keep everything organized in one place so I can easily update my posts and upload things when ever I wanted.

Blogger can easily import pictures.

You can add labels to each of the posts so you can easily categorise my posts so my teachers can just see my evaluation posts for example.

I was able to set a date of when I wanted something to be uploaded

The clapper Icon meant that I could upload YouTube Videos to my blog for analysis.

Nikon D3200When filming our scenes we used the Nikon D3200 which we were able to record on at 1080p. When filming we mainly used a scorpion video grip when filming all of the bikes scenes because Lewis was able to carry it whilst cycling. Using this grip meant that we would be able to get shots of us cycling in front and behind him because we didn't have accesses to a car.

When we looked through the clips from the beach scene we realized that some of the shots that we got were out of focus or the clip would start to be in focus and then go our of focus. So one thing that I have learnt from filming with a DSLR Camera is to always use manual focus so we know that the shot will be in focus instead of using auto-focus so when we move the camera it has to adjust which is what happened in most of our clips which happened to be out of focus.

These were two of the shots that are out of focus because we used auto focus. So when Tom would walking towards the camera it would auto focus to him but it would stutter so it would focus on the background as well which messed up the clip. So we needed to use manual focus instead.

Using Final Cut Pro

Throughout the weeks I leant how to import clips and then edit them together creating a sequence of clips making a shot film.

I also learnt how to cut and edit clips and put them together with the blade tool in Final cut pro.

I was able to easily get sound effects as well like the car screeching