Filming Equipment
I loved working with this camera as it gave clear, high definition results to our shots, also provided us with great advantages as we could experiment with shots as it often gave a professional result. This camera has a good depth of field which made our shots look very realistic and professional. Compared to the cameras we used in our first year project the camera transformed the shots and the manual focus were very helpful in many shots, mainly our close ups. We feel that this camera was very easy to operate and captured the shot and audio up perfectly. The only downside to this camera is that it took a while to import our footage onto the Mac's, even though this wasn't a major issue with the actual manufacture of the camera, we felt that it wasted time which we could have been editing. However overall I really enjoyed working with this camera as it was easy to set up with the tripod and gave amazing results on our shots.
Zoom Recorder:
The Zoom recorder were very useful when it came to the production of our film, as in the narrative we have a voice over from the mother who has unfortunately passed away. So we used the zoom recorder to capture this audio who is reading a letter, I felt it was easy to work the zoom recorder and captured the sound clearly. The only fault there is with the zoom recorder was it picked up everything, including breathing and slight mistakes. However we felt it was very easy to edit this when we imported the audio. We used the zoom recorder again for our Radio Trailer and found that if you don't hold it so close then it picks up the audio more clearly without any mistakes. Overall we was very happy with our results using the zoom recorder as it was hassle free and wasn't time consuming as the audio was easy to record and import.
We had another option of going into recording studios in college to record our audio, however we felt we didn't need to, as even though the result may have been better, that option would have been very time consuming, and as the slight breathing is captured on the zoom recorder it adds to the emotion of the letter that is being recorded. So therefore we was very happy with our choice and wouldn't change the audio.
Digital Cameras, Fujifilm
By using digital camera's it helped us provide primary photographs for many things in our planning and production:
We used it for our character profiles, to get shots of our characters in costume and make up.
We used it for our location photos, which gave clear shots of our potential location for our film.
We also used it for our Photo storyboards and Title sequence storyboards, which we took in the process of planning to help map out our shots.Overall we used this camera to help mainly in our planning and research as it was just very easy to handle and was very convenient.
We also used another Digital Camera which was better for our more professional photographs for our film poster etc, so we used the
Panasonic DMC-GF5 to achieve the best quality photos we could so then our film poster would look more professional which would increase our success. We used the two digital camera to our advantage and used the appropriate and most convenient camera when needed, which overall as a group we were happy with both results.
Research
When it came to planning and research the internet and Google were our main resources as it provided us with many websites that we then went on to use, and provided us with accurate information which would have potentially ruined our main product without it, for example location details. Without the internet our research and planning would have been very limited and I feel the internet has impacted on our main product as it gave us the resources and websites to plan.
YouTube
I personally used YouTube a lot through the process of planning and production as through planning I researched into Title Sequences and other similar films which fit with our genre. This helped us with planning as we all did individual research and then came back as a group to discuss and plan. YouTube was very helpful as when it came to uploading our radio trailer, rough cut and our final film, it was accessible to a wide ranged audience which we could get feedback from, plus as it was uploaded on a worldwide website we weren't restricted on who it was available to.
Without Facebook we wouldn't have a stable platform were we could recieve honest feedback, as majority of people who our audience is targetted at would possibly have Facebook, so by using a media platform were we can recieve feedback from the right audience helps us get structive criticisms and helps make our film more successful.
BBFC
BBFC were our starting point on our project as before we started planning or researching into potential genres, we looked at what age certificates actually required. We researched into films that have been banned or being resubmitted as a different age certificate and considered what potential audience we wanted to aim our film at. So for me BBFC website helped to clarify and show us the age classification framework for our age certificate '15'. This then showed us what was accepted and denied in 15 age rated films.
Google Docs and Google Images
We used Google Docs mainly to create our on-line questionnaires for our initial film idea, our rough cut and our film poster, which we then uploaded on Facebook. Google Docs were very helpful in creating questionnaires as we used Google Sheets which were easy to operate and was helpful when creating multiple choice questions and extended questions. Google Images played a big part when it came to research as when we did individual research we looked into similar films, iconography and the genre itself, the images helped illustrate what we wanted to achieve in the post production stages and helped visualise what our main product would look like. Overall Google Docs and Images helped thoroughly with post production and was very easy to maneuver.
I used this website when creating my own individual rough film poster, I wanted to personally experiment with editing websites and I didn't feel confident on Photoshop on my own. So therefore I used Ipiccy.com which is an on-line editing website, I was quite happy with my result however I felt that the final film poster had a more professional look to it by using Photoshop. However I enjoyed using different websites just to see if it could be done a different way. I did find it very easy to add layers and edit the contrast and brightness etc. I think this website is better to be used to edit normal photographs and not to create professional film posters, however the result weren't as bad as I expected it to be.
Digital Software:
Final Cut Express
We got the chance to experiment this year by adding more transitions it to make it flow better, including Fade in Fade out effect. Colour corrector was a very useful feature which we used often to make sure all our clips matched, this was helpful as by correcting it with technology saved us from manually going to film it again in the same lighting etc. It saved us a lot of time as it wasn't difficult to merge clips and audio. The only downfall was it took a long time to export the film, however it is understandable with the memory size of the film. Overall I am thrilled with the results due to this software and would like to use this software on personal projects in the future as I'm very satisfied with the structure and results of Final Cut Express.
When we first started to create our final film poster I wasn't personally confident with Photoshop, as the layout etc threw me a little. However a member of my group knew how to work Photoshop quite well, in which I learned a lot about how to layer images and texts, and how to change the contrast etc. I now feel more confident with this editing software and overall I think the film poster looks very professional and sophisticated. Especially in comparison to the rough film poster I made on Ipiccy.com.
Evaluation and Extras:
Prezi- Presentation software
I really enjoyed using this software last year in my evaluation and find it just as enjoyable this year. I like how you can make an evaluation question look visual by having it in a presentation. I chose templates that suit and relate to what I am talking about in my evaluation. I feel this is a good way to summarise all the process of creating a film, and assembles all initial ideas, planning and research. I would definitely use this in the future if I ever had to do my own presentations.
In the process of post production, we used the software of Celtx to script our dialogue which was going to be used in the film. As we have previously used this in our Preliminary exercise and our Foundation Portfolio, we already knew how to use it and it is very straight forward when coming to scripting. I wrote out the rough scripts onto Celtx as I felt comfortable doing so, and I feel it is one of them very manageable software's that takes little concentration which I enjoyed as it weren't a difficult process which made it very quick to do which favoured us as it gave us more time to film and edit.
BloggerLast but certainly not the least, Blogger, I feel that blogger is a great way to show collectively what our group has done, It was very easy to keep our work organized and we could quickly identify if anything needed doing or were missing. As a group I feel we have separated our posts equally when it came to group work, I find that blogger is a great way to create multimedia posts by easily including YouTube videos, audio and images. This makes the overall blog look more visual and professional. Without Blogger our work would be all over the place and we wouldn't be able to present everything we have done in the project in a collective and assembled way. We changed the layout on our blog to make it look more professional by widening the blog post so then everything looked neat and presentable. I have never found any difficulties through the process of working with Blogger and I would definitely use this website in the future when it came to group projects.
Overall I feel our choices as a group with new media technologies have helped us produce a great film with a radio trailer and film poster to promote it. Without the access to the internet, editing software such a Final Cut Express and getting the chance to use a more professional camera, I feel our film wouldn't be as successful and we wouldn't have been as happy with the outcome.
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