Question 6What have you learnt about technologies from the

process of constructing this product?

Throughout creating our main task, we came across the use of many technologies which we had to gain a knowledge of to create a successful final piece. Throughout the research stages, we had to gain a knowledge in order to get around YouTube and Art of the title to analyse opening sequence, this was to gain an understanding in the common conventions of an horror opening sequences. Throughout all stages we had to use Tumblr to represent each stage of creating our final piece. Throughout filming we’d use different cameras and sound equipment to improve from our preliminary task. Throughout editing we used editing programmes such as Premier Pro.

Tumblr:Tumblr was used to represent each stage of creating our main task, with the use of blog posts we’d update it with our progress throughout researching, planning, production and evaluating in order to represent the making of our opening sequence.

Within our tumblr posts, you can post in many different formats such as text, link to videos and embedding word documents etc. This means we have the features we need to present all of our work, within our work we would post videos, surveys and link them in, text posts and the use of slideshare to share word documents or powerpoints through embedding them.

Slideshare

Another website I came familiar with was ‘Slideshare’. Within this website you can upload word documents or powerpoints and embed them into your tumblrpost. I used this a lot when planning to present my work as the majority of it was computer files.

We used a different camera than our preliminary task, this was because in our preliminary we didn’t gain the camera shots we really wanted. With the new camera we learnt how to gain a short or long depth of field which we took full advantage of in order to keep the focus on either the main character of the surroundings when appropriate.

Camera

• We also changed it in order to change the focus within shots which we believe worked well. With the last camera we used we didn’t get our full bearings with it before using it therefore our filming wasn’t to the level we wanted to be. So with our new camera we made use we learned the basics in order to create the effects we needed to.

In our preliminary task we became familiar with a boom pole and a microphone. As we felt like the sound quality from the sound equipment wasn’t suited to our main task idea, we choose not to use a microphone and no dialogue, instead we used the sound from the camera itself as it was hi-tech and we included non-diegetic music and a voiceover. We recorded the voiceover just on a phone as it gave the quality we were looking for and we have the knowledge of how to then upload it onto the computer and into our editing programme.

Sound

We came across a feature of youtubecalled audio library where you could find songs or sound effects to go into the background of a video made. We chose to use this feature and searched for a horror genre, we found a music clip which was suitable and learned where we could find certain features from youtube.

Premier Pro was the program we used to edit and create our final footage. We also used this for our preliminary task so we had an understanding of how to use it and what it includes. We had to upload our raw footage and put it into a sequence to then be ready to edit. We used many features of it such as:

Premier Pro

Layering

Layering was one of skills we learned in order to put non-diegetic music in, a voiceover and how we include the titles throughout the opening sequence.

Changing the volume

Especially in a horror genre, volume is very important. Therefore we learnt how to increase the volume at tense times and how to decrease the volume of the main track so it doesn’t overpower the footage and the voiceover.

Changing the features of the footage

In parts of editing we used a video effects in order to create black and white footage to keep to the conventions of flashbacks. We also learnt how to fade from black and white to colourin order to go from flashbacks to present.

Putting sequence into order

One of the simplest things we had to know during editing was how to upload raw footage and put it into order. From this screenshot it shows the order of our footage and on the far left shows our raw footage that we need to include into the sequence.

Titles

One of the main things we needed to know to create for our opening sequence was the use of titles and how to include them and make sure you chose the right fonts to keep it consistent. This screenshot shows the extra tab you need in order to do this.

Exporting

After we finished the editing of our opening sequence, we learnt how to export it into a video format as seen in this screenshot.

When we thought our opening sequence was at the standard we wanted, we exported it from premier and uploading it to YouTube. Using YouTube as our broadcasting site, I learnt how to import clips, embed clips and knew the main features of the site. After uploading our final piece we noticed we had made a mistake, from this we learnt how to delete clips and re-upload when we fixed the problem. We kept some of the rough copies to show our progression. We also used YouTube whilst researching the conventions of our genre and conventions of an opening sequence to decide whether to stick to them or challenge them. YouTube was also used in planning, for our animatic.

YouTube