6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
1. 6) What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
2. Major decisions included
using these key websites and softwares
in order to construct our production throughout all stages:
Blogger
YouTube
Final Cut Pro
Pixlr
Google documents
Even before production, I knew that these would be fundamental
and provide us with the building blocks for advancing the
development of Enslaved.
What key decisions did you make about technology
during pre-production/production/ post production?
3. Before we began
to even conceive ideas for our final
film we first did lots of research into our chosen film genre and
audience to determine what key elements we’d need if we
were to propose a plot and craft characters.
For me, much of this research was done by looking up common elements on
TvTropes and then expanding my depth of knowledge by researching those
individual themes. (Eg. by watching clips of relevant media texts on YouTube such as
The Conguring in order for these to play a role in inspiration for the story)
4. Microsoft Office was used in various ways;
Word was generally used most often throughout the project in
order to type up things before organising them on blogger.
I used Excel to generate some relevant graphs from
questionnaires. I hadn’t used excel in several years prior to this
so it was tricky to create graphs and I got quite frustrated at
one point as I’m useless at new technology.
PowerPoint was used a lot to craft my ideas into a basic
presentation and of course, during these evaluation questions.
5. To use blogger
I had to learn basics of <html> coding
such as <center> to frame something in central position and
<br> add a space. I also had to learn how to embed codes
from sites such as YouTube and Prezi amongst others. This
was a very helpful and useful new skill to obtain.
Blogger was irritating to use as you cannot position images
exactly where you want them or size images exactly how
you want them either.
I feel that Blogger whilst has a lot of limitations it is good for
making a group project and building fundamentals.
6. Firstly, Youtube
was used to watch clips of relevant film
clips and trailers to gain information.
Later on YouTube was used to export our final film and so I had
to learn how to do this. This was a fairly simple process and I’ve
exported films before so I hadn’t learnt anything new by doing
this although the process was a little different from several
years back when I last exported something.
We also exported our initial filming tasks using YouTube.
7. I also used
ArtOfTheTitle in order to watch
videos pertaining to opening sequences so that I could
analyse them.
Art of the title
is great as it has
heaps of texts
and genres to
choose from
including mega-
hit horror titles.
8. To create title sequence images for
Enslaved I used photographs I’d
taken of my sister in a sinister
fashion. To make things look more
creepy I edited these photos on
Online Editing site - Pixlr, adding
additional shadows and highlights
using the various tools such as the
droplet tool and ‘curves’.
Pixlr is similar to Photoshop in a lot of
aspects and I enjoy using it to create
various effects and play around with
photographs.
I use Pixlr a lot in everyday life so
nothing new was learnt in this editing
process.
9. In this menu I added
the various transitions
and audio effects
I generally used ‘cross
dissolve’ but I also
used ‘flash frame’ in
some parts of the
Opening sequence.
Final Cut Pro is the
software we used to edit our film
Final Cut Pro
10. Here you can see the various
clip files and shots that were used in the
making of Enslaved
11. I learnt so much from using Final Cut Pro! It was my first time using such a
high spec software so it was incredible tricky and frustrating at first as I
encountered so many problems such as rendering the video format
constantly and not knowing where the correct buttons were.
Even simple things such as finding out how to do transitions seemed
impossible to do, however when I figured it out things flowed well and I’m
proud of the end result!
I also feel that through this I’ve matured as a person because I didn’t give
up on the project because I couldn’t do something. I thought about it with a
calm mindset and powered through even though it was hard.
This is the basis
layout of Final Cut
Pro.