Evaluation Task 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

One of the technologies I have used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. This is the name of the editing software I have been using to edit my opening two minutes, I have learnt a lot about Premiere Pro and have increased my knowledge of basic editing techniques and using effects to make the raw footage appear more professional and make it fit the feel of the film.

One of the effects I have learnt is shown below, on the left is the raw footage, and the edited footage is on the right. You can see that by applying an effect called 'ghosting' I have made a quite normal shot seem more fast paced and hard to follow, this effect helped create the feel in the scene and make it hard to see what was happening.

Another technology I have used is YouTube, I have uploaded all of the videos I have made onto YouTube in order to easily share them and to embed them into my blog. YouTube makes this very easy as you can upload any video and change the settings so it can only be viewed by clicking on a link or through visiting my blog.

I have also used YouTube to view the opening two minutes of other films in order to analyse them, gain inspiration or even just to see what is often featured in the first two minutes of a film.

I have used Blogger to create and maintain my online blog where I have been posting everything I have learnt and share the videos I have made, I had not previously used Blogger so I had to learn how to use the site and how to post images and text and how to embed videos and presentations onto my blog. I feel I have learnt a lot about this technology that could come in helpful in the future.

Some of the equipment I have used is shown around this text, the camera I used was a Nikon D5200, a DSLR which produces high resolution video footage. This helped in capturing scenes exactly as I wanted them to be seen and making sure the video was high resolution when editing and on YouTube.

I also used a tripod and tripod wheels to get steady shots when the camera was still and also when filming some of the chase scenes, for the chase scenes I also used a steadycam and the tripod was used mostly in the forest scenes. This helped keep the camera still for long periods of time and also to make sure that the camera was level, there is a small spirit level in the tripod that helps you make sure your shots are level and not tilted.