Evaluation Question 6
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Question
6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Since the beginning of
year 12 when we started media our group has learnt a great deal about filming and
editing. One of our group members, Paula was already very experienced in making
and editing videos because she regularly keeps a video diary for her own
personal blog. However the rest of us didn’t have any experience at all and
therefore we were able to learn both from our lessons and our group member
Paula.
The rest of the people
in our class used the cameras which our school provided (Cannon HFM 306) we
could’ve done this but given that Paula had her own and more advanced camera we
chose to use that instead. The camera we ended up using was a Nikon
D3200 with a 35 millimetre 1.8 lens. This lens had the advantage of enabling us
to be able to focus on a certain subject and blur out the background. This was
a benefit because it meant that it eliminated any other distractions, which
could have altered the viewer’s attention.
We decided to use Adobe
Premiere Pro to edit our video because it was more advanced than other options
such as iMovie but was still simplistic enough for us to be able to use efficiently.
Premiere Pro allowed us to use short clips of under 3 seconds which you aren't
able to do on iMovie and we used a lot of in our film opening. We used short
clips because it meant we were able to show a variety of different camera
angles and skills within the two minutes. Paula had experience of editing
videos but not in the software we decided to use so therefore we were all able
to learn and help create our video.
We progressed a lot
from our preliminary video which we did in the first few weeks of starting
media. We did not know many people and this meant that filming was a bit
awkward. We used two boys in our year and filmed one of them walking through a
door and then sat down having a conversation about their subjects. There is
lots of laughing in the background because the actors weren’t comfortable. In
our final media product our actors were more comfortable being in front of the
camera.
We did a number of
practice tasks before completing our final film opening and one of these was
the mise-en-scène task. We were given 5 features of mise-en-scene and told to
cooperate them into a two-minute video. We used the young male actor who was
also used in our final piece as he is one of our group member’s brothers. The
video that we produced had a few areas that were not as professional looking as
we would have liked so we aimed to and succeeded in changing that in our final
piece. One of the main criticisms of our
mise-en-scene task was that we had a clip in it which lasted 21 seconds which
was way too long and got boring. Therefore in our final video we made sure to
use short clips to ensure we avoided repeating this. We also learnt how to do
special effects in our editing and this meant that we were able to incorporate
them into final film opening.
We used both diegetic
and non diegetic sounds in our video. The diegetic sounds were sounds that our
actors could hear when filming such as the sounds of the gravel when Eve walked
towards to the house in the first scene. The non diegetic sounds which we hear
are the sounds that were put in after over the top such as the sound of the
walking stick throughout the two minutes.
(JN)(EH)
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