Media Evaluation 6: What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing your product?

1. Media Evaluation 6: What have you
learnt about the technologies from
the process of constructing your
product?
David Jeffery-Hughes

2. Equipment
Being a photography student as well I
knew my way around a camera. Although
their were some differences in the
camera, I eventually knew how to work
it. To film our opening we used a Canon
EOS 600D. I wanted it on manual focus
so that we could have a better quality
of film. This meant we had to change
the focus while we were filming the
scene but I liked this because it made
it look as if were watching the scene
with our own eyes. We also used a
tripod, the one we used had a smooth
action for panning this became
particularly useful when we panned up
to the sky in our opening. When filming
the dialogue I put the arm of the
tripod over my shoulder. This resulted
in an almost steady cam affect. This
was very effective when it came to the
fight scene. For some of the sound
(effects) we used an IPod to record the
sound and then we overlaid it using
Premiere Pro.

3. Premiere Pro
This is probably where I learnt the
most. I have used premiere pro many
times but never really footage with
dialogue. When we stitched together
the footage from different angles, it
didn’t sound right. The background
noise was also bad sometimes. So what
I did was unlink the sound from one
take and overlay it with the footage
from another. As it turns out we had
to do this several times to get the
best quality. I also learnt how to
edit match on action more affectively
by using the frame by frame tool so
that I could cut the
action in exactly the right place.
Another thing I learnt through this
process was how to make a time-lapse.
At the start of our opening this is
shown. We did it by filming a sunset
for about 20 minutes and then we used
the speed duration tool to speed it
up so it was about 5 seconds long.