What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your project?

What I’ve learned from this project about technologies is about the cameras, tripods and editing software’s and how to use them to make and edit our film. To actually make our project me and Amir started off with one of the schools cameras which were good and easy to use however we found some problems with them as battery life didn’t last too long and the light on the camera itself wasn’t strong enough to see some dark areas  of our film. During the time from our first draft of the sequence to our final draft, Amir had ordered a video camera online and was waiting for it to be delivered luckily it was on time for us to film our final draft. Amir’s camera was initially hard to use at the start as you had to set up all the settings which consisted of contrast, brightness, resolution, pixels and many others, so when I first so the screen I was completely confused and fazed by the amount of writing on the screen but after using it I now understand. The camera was vital to our sequence as it allowed us to create perfect shots and movements due to its graphics and adjustable settings.

When we began the editing process of the film, at first i found it difficult as i hadn't done much editing before. However Amir showed me the basics of editing however not with Premier Pro as we used After effects for our film because we believed it had more features of editing and of a wide variety but also because Amir was more familiar with this editing software. Amir did most of the editing as he enjoys it and is better with the programme however I was round his house to help with the editing, doing some myself but mainly aiding. To start the editing of our film we imported all the clips and shots we needed and placed them into order, from there the real task of editing began. An example of some hard editing was with the establishing shot of the street with garages however we decided to create a depth of field shot which had one part in focus and the other out and after a few seconds it was the opposite, do this we selected the layer and clicked on it to reveal its options and then turn on the depth of field, after this we change the level of blur to somewhere over 500% so that we can have a really creative blur effect. This is then followed by making the focus distance focus on the first part and then the last part. We then have to add a keyframe at the start of the timelime and then to make the last part in focus we changed the focus distance to a different number to the first part.

Another use of editing that we did was our title sequence which consisted of lots of text inserts which we used for our credits. We create a new composition and then click on the text tool, we then wrote the name of one of the credits and chose the font, we then take the pen tool and select the layer and draw around the text; and then click the selection tool. Then we go to our film clip which is the tracking scene with the wall and drag in the writing text and its done.