Wednesday 20 February 2013

Question 7:

Looking back at your Preliminary Task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?


-Scripting
-Planning
-Photographic ability
-Editing skills

http://shirleykirbymedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/preliminary-task-final-cut.html
^The preliminary task is located here.

Working on my own, as I had already expected, meant that I would have to put in more time and effort for the project, but I am glad I made this decision because it also meant that I could do whatever I wanted with it and not have to consolidate with anybody else. Furthermore during the Preliminary task, I found that I tended to become a bit of a control freak and perfectionist when it came to doing the editing, even though I had never used the Premiere Software before.

 But now I have taken my time with learning how to use it and not rushing things; and because it is not as though I'm working for anybody else, I feel a lot less pressured than when I was doing it in the group.

At the start of the Preliminary task, we were told to created a storyboard for the film opening ides, which then developed into and animatic giving us a rough guide to what the film would turn out like. However, knowing that I would just want to change the scenes and swap things around, I knew in advance that personally doing an animatic would be a waste of time for me because I would have to keep re-drafting and it would just be pointless. Therefore I used this time to make a drafted timeline/script type thing from which I would work on instead. I used this as a basic outline of what scenes I definitely wanted but they were in no particular order so I could move things around to whichever way I decided seemed best.

By another classmate, I learnt how to sound bridge using the premiere editing software, so that I could layer sounds and cross them over from different video clips. However I had not had enough time during the Preliminary task to have done this, therefore certain sound effects were missing from it.

Over the course of this project, I think I have faced the most technological problems of the rest of my class because for a while my files became corrupted or wouldn't load properly but during this time period, I spent a lot of time outside of class hours to find out how to fix problems with the technology.

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Question 6:

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?



Planning and Research:
I used search engines such as Google and YouTube to refresh my memory on films that I already knew were in the style that I wanted. An example of this would be
I am a regular viewer of this particular channel, so it was more like I was doing revision rather than new research.
Also, I analysed the opening sequence of the film Little Miss Sunshine
 





Production:

I used a digital camera to record the clips, and used a tri-pod to keep the shots still. I used mainly office lighting and at times, I used natural lighting but decided that natural lighting didn't not give a desired effect as it was extremely sunny of the day of filming. To create ambient sounds, printers and coffee machines needed to be used to make a more realistic office scene.

I used several websites during production which are seen in it, these are examples that were shown:
  


 
    
Post-Production:


Premiere Editing software was what I used during post production to change and re-arrange the order of some scenes. I also used Blogger to post updates of anything new

    



Evaluation:
I use this website to post all of my evaluations, therefore I'm using the internet. I also used a program to write documents called Microsoft Word.




Tuesday 12 February 2013

Question 5:

How did you attract/address your audience?


There are times when the audience have to focus on what the character is writing down, in order to guess what he is planning on doing. The narration is also done in first person, talking and explaining to the audience, so there is the connection there. The viewers may think the words spoken are associated with visuals of the audiences' perspective, but it's actually almost as if there is two different storylines that have nothing to do with eachother.