A2 Media studies Evaluation for film Unhinged by Group 14 (Paper Suits Productions)

1. Media A2 film evaluation Q4
🎬🎥🎫🎭📀📺
How did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?

2. Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE)
• Photoshop was used to create the film poster for our production. When
creating the film poster each member of the group created their own versions
and then we created a final one in the end.
• I have the most experience using PSE so I created The final copy, but I have
less experience using the apple computer version of PSE meaning making
the poster was slightly different, this has been a development of my skills
expanding and using other platforms for work.

3. Autodesk SketchBook
• This application is a drawing application that is more for developing drawing
images but allowed me to create a good blurred and smudged effect.
• The final poster original background picture and text was developed by me
using this software.
• I took an image from the film that is no longer in the final edit by taking a
picture with the camera on my tablet and used this as it could potentially be
used further on in the film if it was more than a 5 minute film.
• This application allowed me to edit the image at any location meaning I could
spend more time on it.

4. • When creating the music for our film I used Cubase to
record my music onto. Cubase allowed me to record my
own ideas that I had written using the piano and even
change the voices used, for example I could add in drum
voices and strings.
• An issue that came with this was that the final film was
still being edited so I would need to keep referencing the
film which was on another computer, the previous rough
cut that was on YouTube is missing shots from the final
edit.
Cubase 6.5

5. Sony HD1000 camera 🎥
• When filming we used the Sony HD1000 Cameras which
was an advancement from the first years small Sony
handycam camera. This camera is of a much higher
quality and allows much more freedom.
• When using this camera we often used the manual
settings to get the exact shot we needed, for example we
needed a blurring shot so we used a manual focus to
change the shot.

6. Zoom recorder
• We used this microphone to record the voiceover for the radio
trailer
• we only knew the basics of this microphone and soon learned
how sensitive it was at picking up sound, this proved an issue with
trying to seclude sound to get only our voices and not nearby
classrooms and building maintenance.
• The microphone sensitivity could be changed with
the gain button on the side which helped us get the
correct sound levels.

7. Final Cut express
• The raw film files were exported and captured onto final cut where
they could be cut/ trimmed, moved and edited to create our final
film.
• Editing with Final Cut allowed us to review our filming and create
better continuity by doing things such as cutting and cropping
videos, creating sound bridges and colour correcting shots.
• as we filmed over the course of several days, the weather
changed and the time of day was sometimes different so we
needed to ensure the shots looked the same if not as close as
possible

8. Final Cut express
Colour correction helps for continuity.
Layering to create vidio and audio echo
effect, (altered opacity settings to do so)
Added titles
into the film
where we
could change
fonts to adhere
to the genre
conventions.
Changing sound
levels for continuity
and transitions

9. Blogger
• We used blogger as a collaborative space to collect
research and to log the progress of our filming.
• From blogger we could have all the research that we have
collected were we can all have access to it, the research
then helps us to create our final film, the poster and the
radio trailer.
• The statistics from blogger also allows us to keep track on
our progress meaning we could ensure we were using our
time sufficiently, meeting targets and deadlines.

10. Extra information
• YouTube - we used youtube to show people the rough cut of our film, from this we
gave them a questionnaire where we could perhaps find areas of improvement
• We used a Google survey to allow people to provide their views on our film so we
could improve. This was much easier than going out and manually asking people,
saving a lot of time.
• Facebook - allowed us to share the survey so more people could answer the
questions. We could even share with people across the world if we needed to.
• We used an extra camera phone for high quality location shots. The camera
function on our Samsung Galaxy S5 was in High definition so it gave us clear idea
of the location to film. (Camera specifications 16 MP, 5312 x 2988 pixels, phase
detection autofocus, LED flash)
• For one location shot we used Google maps street view, this allowed us to take the
image of the house we were filming in without leaving the classroom.