WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT

TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCT ING TH IS PRODUCT?

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

Jasmin Mahmood, Samantha Timmins and Brittany Foster

CAMERAThe camera we used was a standard DSLR which was a Nikon D3100. It was extremely useful as we were able to film in HD and had very good sound quality which was important especially to pick up the conversation between David and Sophie. We were also able to get all the shots we needed for the opening with the lens. As it is a DSLR camera, we were able to use the lens to focus more on the foreground which helped us achieve a more professional product.

POST PRODUCTION – IMOVIE During post production, the first piece of

software we used was iMovie which we used to edit our film opening. iMovie allowed us to split clips, manipulate footage, crop footage, add music and sound effects & add in transitions such as cross fades. We were also able to detach the audio once we had imported it back into iMovie after putting the titles on using LiveType.Using iMovie was important as we were able to put the footage we’d filmed into a coherent order to produce a continuous edit and we were also able to add effects and change the colouring of the footage.

POST PRODUCTION - LIVETYPETo add titles to our opening we used a program called LiveType. With LiveType, we could create titles using a range of fonts, font sizes and animations. We were also able to place our fully edited film opening in the background and add our titles in at the right time (e.g. at 1:34 mins). Using LiveType meant we were able to add effects onto the titles which we would not have been able to do in iMovie and it allowed our film opening to fit our chosen genre better.

POST PRODUCTION - GARAGEBANDIn our opening we wanted to use two different pieces of music in the

background so we decided to use GarageBand to edit both these tracks together. With GarageBand we were able to mix multiple tracks together to create more interesting background music, which we would not have been able to do in iMovie as it would only let us add one piece of music in the background. We could mix 2 tracks together and also time the music to be louder and softer at certain points. This helped us to achieve a more effective use of music and we could easily use more than 1 piece of music.

POST PRODUCTION – CLIP CONVERTERTo add music to our opening we used a website called Clip Converter. Using Clip Converter we could download music to add in to our opening. This was important as we would not have been able to add music to our opening.