Evaluation part 4

Throughout the making of our project I have used the internet to post my work onto blogger as well as to research and plan the film. In particular I used youtube for looking at title sequences, radio trailers and other short films as well as using google as the main search engine throughout. A problem we came across was the server in college as the ban width weren't big enough for us to upload our film. iMDB was helpful for me too when researchin
g into film genres, I used BBFC to look into film certificates also. Communication in the group was done through mobile phones and facebook, which was convenient for all of us as we could all get in touch with each other easily. I had few problems during using the internet however when trying to put pictures on my posts as they often wouldn't go where I wanted them to which I overcome by editing the html.

Our film 'Misguided' was created using Sony HD1000 cameras which are good quality cameras where you can get good quality filming in any location, the camera was generally easy to use and I feel like my filming skills have improved greatly. Another strength with the camera was the sound quality which was very clear. A problem we had with the camera was the focus rim on the camera, and therefore we struggled with a pulling focus shot as the camera has a spinning

focus rim (we

didn't end up using the shot in the final film.) A HD1000 tripod was also used, which was used to take sure shots were not shaky and to ensure they ran smoothly, some shots however we created to look shaky where we didn't use a tripod such as when Fiona is running down the stairs at the end, this works very well as we see things from her point of view insinuating worry and that everything is a blur to her. We also used a hand held camera to create a video diary which was very easy to use.

To edit our film we used final cut express which is widely used on

apple mac computers, I believe this programme has improved my creativity greatly. Final cut enabled us to cut out the shots that weren't needed and creating continuity. It also allowed us to alter the sound for example some conversation parts in the film weren't quite loud enough. We used different effects in the film such as fades, changing the colour, using cuts and flashes of light as well as speeding up shots such as in the party scene where everyone is stood around Fiona in a circle laughing. We didn't have any major problems the the mac's or the editing

software however sometime it was time consuming such as rendering the film when adding in new shots as well as when transferring our footage onto the computer. We also used a zoom recorder to record voice-overs for our film in a quiet room which we then put on the mac and edited and added to our film in final cut express.

To create our poster we all created individual designs and then as a group decided on a final poster design. The final poster was made on Photoshop, we used a photography studio to take pictures on a SLR camera to put on the poster. For our radio trailer we used final cut express which worked in our favour as we were very familiar with it. We recorded voice overs on a zoom recorder, took some sound from our film and used some copyright free music which works very well with the sound from the film, we also added in fades and sound bridges to make the trailer sound the best we could make it.

In conclusion I feel like the media technologies I have used has helped me improved my overall media skills such as editing, researching, sound recording and blogging, as well as boost my creativity. I think that any problems that occurred throughout the project I have able to overcome resulting in a successful project.