Final Cut ProThis was the first time me using final cut pro and I found that at the beginning I didn't’t know how to work any of the program but now that we have been on it, I am able to use it more efficiently.

When we first started I had no idea how to work Mahara and this caused problems with my work as I didn't’t really know what I was doing. Now that I have a basic knowledge of Mahara I now know how to use it.

We use Freesound as a way to look for music that would match our opening. Although we did not use one of the sounds from this website it still gave us the necessary research and idea on what we actually wanted for our opening.

Voice memos was the app that we used to record Foley sound that we wanted within our opening. As this was the first time for me with using this app I had to test certain sounds to see what it came out like.

We used Youtube for finding inspiration for what sounds we wanted to help build up the atmosphere within our opening. We used a royalty free track, but because it sounded too much like jaws we cut certain parts of it and left the parts that created more tension and matched with what was going on within the scene.

I had never used GarageBand before, so it was really a struggle to try and work it. But after playing around with the sounds I found that it actually is rather straight forward if you know where all of the sounds are. Although we did not use what we tried to create as it didn’t really fit with the opening it was still something that I had learnt.

Art of the title is one of the websites that we used to look at titles so that we could get an idea on where we should place them to fit our genre. By using art of the title I think that it helped a lot and gave us something to use as inspiration towards our own titles.

This is the imac that we used to edit our opening scenes.What I learnt with this was how to use finale cut pro and how to basically operate the imac. After a while of playing around I seemed to get the hang of things with the imac, but at the beginning I was struggling because I had never worked on a imac and apple so I found it very difficult. Throughout working on our opening I have learnt how to put a filter onto a specific frame on the timeline, how to cut and shorten frames, how to manually edit the colour of a frame and how to place sounds/music onto the timeline and make them blend together.Although in our opening the lighting is different within each frame it was the closet that we were able to get it to as all the frames had different exposures, which made it very diffiucult and time consuming to edit. We also found that with the filter that we used for the rough cut didn’t actually work all that well, so we decided to just use the colour correction within the frames to change the lighting to make it more suitable for the scenes.Compared to what I knew before I started this media product I have learnt a lot that I will be able to use in the future and on more projects.

imac

The first photo is they camera tripod that we used to film our opening. To use it you have to unclip the legs so that it can become higher to film higher angles. As I am a photography student I already know how to handle this equipment and how to work it. The long handle on the tripod is to move the camera holder so that you can do panning shots with ease. What I did learn was that to make sure that everything is secured properly so that whilst moving the equipment wont fall and brake.

The second photo is of the camera that we used t film our opening. There was also a battery towards the right bottom side just in case we ran out of battery whilst filming. As I do photography I am aware of the equipment and how to handle and work the camera. At the beginning of the filming we all had a try with filming on the camera as we wanted to see how it works and to get the feel of what it would look like.

Camera Tripod and Camera

This is the phone that we used to take the voice memos for some of the Foley sound within our opening. All we had to do was go on voice memos and create the sound and record it, then import it onto the imac. What I found whilst recording was that if there was any background noise it would pick it up, so it had to be done in silence, I also found that if you hold it too close to the noise then it will become unclear, muffled and static. As this was my first time using voice memos I tried a bunch of different sounds at the beginning to se what it sounded like and whether or not we could do something that would make it better.

Iphone, Voice Memos