Question 6

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

Camera on tripod

I learnt how to use a digital camera to film the movie. This is the camera we used to film all of our opening sequence video. We used the camera on the trip pod for 90% of the time. The only time we didn't film using the tripod was when we wanted to create an effect to make it feel like we were with the spy/murderer as he moved. We also used the camera to do voice overs; this is used when the wife rings up the spy and speaks down the phone. The camera has a slot in the side of it where we put our tape cassette, our footage then gets saved onto this tape ready to upload to the computer. The camera has a zoom in/out button, this was very useful when filming as we could just zoom instead of having to move the camera, for example we zoomed in on the spy's face while he was on the phone to the 'wife'. The camera also had a panel screen so that we could see what we were filming.

Adobe Premier Pro

The thing i learnt most throughout making the opening sequence was editing our video. To edit our opening sequence and transfer film footage we used Adobe Premier Pro, this is a software (one of the best and most popular) which we had access to in the college editing suite. We would put our video tape containing the film footage into a tape cassette reader, where it would be recorded and saved onto the computer and opened up onto this software ready for it to be put together into a film and edited. APP was the software we used to add effects to our video; colours, cropping, text, slide transitions and sound. APP also has a timeline, this is where we drop our clips into and combine together to make the film. If you look at the image above, our unedited clips are stored on the left screen in the top left corner, this is called the source panel. Lower down is a timeline, this is where we would drag our chosen clips and start editing them. When playing our film, it plays in the top right corner on the right screen, this is called the program sequence. 

Blogger

I also learnt more about blogging. Blogger is a free website for people to blog posts, images and writing. I used blogger to upload all my work, posts and a showing of everything that i have learnt during my experience of media and making my first opening sequence. I found blogger a simple way to stay on track with my work.









I also used YouTube as part of the technology in my work. I found that YouTube was the most easiest form of technology for me personally to find good video examples to compare and research into with my film. My pre-lim video and final opening sequence were also uploaded to YouTube, i find it a very simple way of sharing videos and work. I also used Google as a resource for my images when comparing my opening sequence to other movies and ideas on how to represent my characters from different characterization groups.

I also used paint during the making of my blog. I used this when i print screened images of the opening sequence to add to my blog. I would print screen and then paste it into paint and save it as a image ready to upload. I also used Microsoft power point during the time of the ideas for my video. I made a power point of the ideas my group and i had and then showed them to the class by showing my power point on a projector.