The document discusses the technology used to create a film opening, including Final Cut Pro for editing footage, Soundtrack Pro for composing non-diegetic music, and Motion to create an ident for the fictional distribution company DAK Pictures. An iMac with these programs allowed the footage from a JVC camera and stored on SD cards and a video drive to be easily pieced together. Final Cut Pro was used to import, edit, and add effects to the footage, Soundtrack Pro to compose soundtracks, and Motion to create title graphics. Overall, the process was a fun learning experience and the author sees potential in using this technology for a future profession.

1. By Anthony Fissler

2. For our film opening, we used the following programs:
Final Cut Pro to piece together all of our filmed footage,
Soundtrack Pro to create non-diegetic music used,
throughout our opening, and Motion to create an ident
for our fictional distribution company, 'DAK Pictures'.
Personally I took the role of editing our footage. It was a
though job considering the standard we were trying to
achieve. However, none of this would have been possible
without the technology used. They all seem to function
well together making life somewhat, easier. This power-
point goes in-depth to the type of technology used and
how well they worked together.

3. • JVC Camera - Of course, without this camera, we
would've been unable to film. Though, the focus
wheel was tough to pay attention to at time, it was
really simple to use.
• SD Cards - Used to store our footage filmed, the SD
cards provided safe-assurance and a second card slot
on the camera incise the first ran out of space.
• iMac - With the RAM and capability of this powerful
desktop, our film wouldn't have been achievable
Containing programs such as Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack
Pro and Motion, we were able to piece together our
sequence with ease.

4. • Video Drive - Using this big bulk of silver,
we were able to store all our final-cut
footage as well as pre-lim bloopers, sound-
loops/samples, camera archives and so
fourth.
All the progress from our research, planning,
filming, editing and evaluation was stored on
Blogger. The friendly website allowed us to
record all our progress as well as incorporate
an assortment of multi-media make it look
professional.

5. • Final Cut Pro: We were able to import all the footage filmed
from the JVC, piece it together in a linear sequence, trim clips,
add transitions and video effects as well as insert a title
sequence there was mix of template to use from. All progress
was saved onto the Hard-drive-disk and the final-cut could be
exported as an MPEG4 and uploaded on Blogger.

6. • Soundtrack Pro: This allowed our to compose our
own soundtrack using an assortment of samples and
mixes. After a beat/sound was created. We added it
into our footage on Final Cut Pro where we able to
trim the sound according to the type of picture, on-
screen

7. • Motion: Being an 'fictional' distribution company, we were
able to create an ident using Motion. Using this, we composed
the title where we experimented with transitions and
movements. We were able to add this to the beginning of our
opening on Final Cut Pro and make it look that bit more
professional!

8. Overall, it was a fun, fully-beneficial experience. Not only
did I learn how to use an assortment of equipment, and
programmes. I enjoyed every part of the production
process. Personally, my favourite part of the production
was using Final Cut Pro, because it felt rewarding
combing all my experience and newly found abilities
(Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Camera footage) into a linear
sequence. Furthermore, I can see myself using all this
technology in the future, perhaps as part of a full-time
profession. However, I think I’d give blogging a miss!
Though, it was vitally important to record all steps of my
production, it felt difficult to maintain at times.