Coursework Thriller Film Opening Evaluation Question 4

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?

Software

Adobe premiere pro - This is an editing software that allows us to move clip and sound sequence, and implement different effects to an extent.

This program allowed us to color grade our product, as all of the footage at first was different in color making very weird and usually looking. After tweaking the color to a more sunset feel, the outcome was much better.
Credits were also made on Premier Pro,we just added text to where we saw fitted, we didn't use any fade or moving effect as it look and felt weird so, we instead use in combination of cuts and sound to place the credits to create a sudden effect.
The program also allowed us to cut and crop footage which was very useful as it allowed us to shorten the opening to the time set and made a smother transition between shots

Voice memo

Voice memo was used after filming as, the sound on the footage taken was not great, due to background noise. Voice memo is basically the program used to record sound, which is an app on the I phone. We only used this once as there were little to no dialogue in our product.

Hardware

Camera = Canon 80D

Canon 80D is an DSLR wih a 

• 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor with Dual Pixel AF
• 45-point AF system with all cross-type points
• 3" 1.04M-dot articulating touchscreen
• 1080/60p video capture
• 7 fps continuous shooting with AF
• Weather-resistant body
• 7560-pixel RGB+IR Metering Sensor
• Wi-Fi + NFC

This is my own camera, and i chose to use  this camera because it allowed me to shoot 1080p at 60 fps which made my footage smoother and more pleasant to watch. It was also weather resistant, which meant if it rained we would be able to still film with it.

Lens = Tamron 35mm f1.8

This allowed us to make Bokeh footage like this:

 The lens had VC(vibration control) which helped stabilize shots.

We also had a tripod to stabilize the shots.

Microphone= Rode Video Mic go

This mic helped us record background sound for some of our shots and canceled redundant sound when its not needed.

I phone 6s

This was used to make time lapse during filming process and record dialogue in after production on voice memo.

Online

YouTube-

We used YouTube from the start to find ideas to finding soundtracks to go with our opening

Purple Planet-

Purple Planet is website that contains not copyrighted music, we used the site to search for and find soundtracks for our opening

Blogger-

Blogger is what we use to record our progress own, this allows us to go back a see what we've done, and what could have been improve.

Google maps-

We use google maps to identify the location of where we are filming.

Conclusion  

How was technology integrated?

After using Google maps we went to our location

Then we started filming, we set u the time lapse with our phone to show our filming process:

After filming we transfered both the footage and audio from the mic's and camera's SD card to our computer. Then we opened premier pro and inserted the files into the software.

After editing we went on the internet to find suitable soundtracks for our product from both YouTube and Purple planet. After finding one we would download it and import it to our project.

When we finish editing we try to improve it, one of the dialogue in the opening was extremely quite, barely understandable, so we voice over it using voice memo and puting the audio on the product.