Neve's evaluation question 6

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

From creating our thriller final product i have learnt a lot about technologies good and bad things.

Mac's for editing 

One thing that is the most significant in my learning process would be  the macs to edit using Garage band and Audacity, As i haven't used macs in the past this was a new experience for me a hard one as well.however using all our knowledge as a group we managed to succeed in the editing process of images, image editing wasn't as hard as garage band which as a group we struggled with. I've learnt how to use the basics of garage band and where to place the different sound effects and volumes of each one, i think that i have improved my skills throughout the process from being unable to use garage band efficiently to being able to edit sequence and add sound alone.

editing figure 1

ross's jumper figure 2

For the non diegetic sound effects i have learnt how to choose the correct sounds and edit them properly to create the right affect on the audience. Using final cut pro was also a new experience which again wasn't easy to start with however once I spent time on it playing around with the different effects it got much better. we initially struggled with colour correction when we wanted to colour correct the yellow noose to make it stand out more we overcome this issue eventually  overall with using macs I feel as if I have improved greatly and learnt new things and how to use them properly. (figure 1)

Digital cameras, Equipment and Lighting 

canon digital camera

I have had previous experience with digital camera as I did media at GCSE so using them wasn't completely new for me, However there were new things that i had to learnt such as white balance, We didn't put the white balance on in our preliminary which was why our film didn't look as good as our final piece that has had the white balance applied, We didn't take a specific object for the white balance so we had to improvise and use ross's white jumper (figure 2) however this worked fine. We used a tripod to steady our camera in most of the scenes getting this in the right position and height for the person recording took time and patience. we also used lighting without filters, as these are simple to use we didn't have any problems other than trying to position them properly.

zoom figure 3

When using zoom on the camera we had a tendency to zoom to fast and it look weird, this has shown in one of our scenes where we zoom in on the noose.(figure 3). We didnt use any depth of field in our final piece which would have been good to add to the quality of the images.