Evaluation activity 6

Below is a list of the different technologies that we used to enable us to create the final product, the two minute opening to our film. We used various websites and various pieces of equipment to ensure that our film opening reaches a good quality. 

Camera: This was by far the most important aspect to our film, we used the Nikon D5000 camera as we knew it is a DSLR, therefore it is of high quality. This camera was very easy to use and provided us with film of good quality. The only minor difficulty with the camera was the fact that it did not allow us to use a deep focus effect which we had initially planned on doing by filming the Christmas lights. 

Tripod: The tripod was another element in our filming, this was because without the tripod our shots would have been quite shaky. The tripod also allowed us to use a smooth tracking shot for the shot of our main character crossing the road and the shot of her leaving the station. This really helped to make the quality of the filming higher.

Recording studio: We decided to record our monologue at a professional recording studio to ensure that the sound is of good quality. Using a set of headphones and a microphone, Lauren read the monologue for us and it was recorded and sent to us through email. We were very keen on the idea of recording at a recording studio seeing as our opening will not include any dialog, we really needed to make sure that the monologue sound is good to ensure that the audience do not get bored  and to make the film appear more interesting. 

Adobe premier elements: We used Adobe Premiere elements 10 to edit our film. This program offered a variety of different effects, transitions and other useful tools to make our film more interesting to watch and to improve the quality of it. In general we found it very easy to use, however when rendering our video it would only render half of it, therefore when uploading our final video onto Youtube only half of it would be uploaded. However we tried to render it again and it luckily worked. 

Blogger: We used this website, blogger, to blog about our whole filming process from our research of different film genres to our evaluation tasks. It has allowed us to put together a story of everything we have done throughout the course and to show our progression and setbacks. It has been a very handy program which is very easy to use.