Dear Diary,
This project has intoduced me well into the media A-level course and I have experienced and learnt lots of new things. I found things difficult and callenging at times but have been able to overcome these problems and create a resolution.
Before this project I had no idea how much planning, thinking and effort went into creating a film and now I understand that the process is long and there's many elements that you have to think about that I never would have known before.
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
For our main product I have learnt how to use my camera to
create the best photos and videos. The camera was a Canon EOS 100D which made
our shots better quality than the one we used for the preliminary task. We
started off filming our test shots using an iPhone and thought that we might
film this for our main task but when put onto computers we found that there was
a black border round the side. We then decided to use the canon camera as we
thought this would look best when put onto the computers.
We used iMovie to edit our opening together, this worked
best for our product as it was relatively easy to use and also had all the
features we needed to create a low budget film. If we were to use software such
as movie maker we wouldn’t have been able to edit the music in that programme
and would have had to use a variety of different software that we didn’t have.
We could do everything we needed to in that one software which really helped us
as we had never really used editing software before. We did face some
difficulties such as we imported the music into the video so we couldn’t edit
it and then had to delete that and start again so the music was exactly how we
wanted it.
We used YouTube to upload our videos and this sometimes
turned out to cause problems also, this may be because the internet was down or
YouTube was blocked so we couldn’t access it and just made everything take a
little longer than planned.
Another difficulty we had was learning to use the camera, at
first we used autofocus throughout our recording process and then realised that
half of our footage wasn’t in focus and was unusable. We the decided to use
manual focus for all shots as this allowed us to control what we were filming
and wasn’t constantly going in and out of focus. This also stopped the noise of
the camera when it autofocus which meant that we couldn’t have the ambient
sounds we wanted as you could only hear the camera.
We also could not include certain shots we wanted to due to
our low budget and lack of contacts, for example we wanted to include an aerial
shot at the beginning however this was not something that we were able to
do.
We found that for the last couple of shots we filmed the
camera died which meant that we had to re schedule another day to film which
made the whole process very time consuming and we couldn’t finish editing when
we wanted to.
Another limitation we faced was that because our film was
low budget we had to improvise with the lighting as when we reached some of our
locations we realised that it was too dark and you couldn’t make out what was
being filmed. We did have lights we could have used, however due to our
location this was not ideal as they were too big and heavy to carry everywhere.
When we first started this project we thought that it would
take a short amount of time to complete, we then found that this was not the
fact and we had to re-film multiple times which was a very long process. This
was only for the opening of a film so now I understand that just the filming
process of creating this type of product takes a long time and that they then
have to edit which is why it takes so long to create a film.
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