Evaluation Activity 6

I have used Blogger for all my media work and the lead up to my film, including props, costumes, treatment; anything that was important was posted on here. This was how I kept up to date with coursework and the planning in my film. My Evaluation activities will also be on here. Blogger was the centre of my film information as it had everything I needed on it so that I could constantly look at what I had already done and what I still had to do.

I  uploaded my final video to my Youtube account. It took a few attempts as my YouTube account crashed twice. However, it eventually came out ok and was able to be accessed through Youtube. This meant that anyone can access it, making it easier to be marked. Uploading it to YouTube also means that when it comes to evaluating, I have the tools to add annotations etc. to my final production.

 

I used Adobe Premier Elements rather movie maker to produce my film so that I had the option of using effects. There was an option of many effects from fade to black transitions, to blurring effects. I ended up using only one effect which is barley noticable when wathing the final film. This effect blurred a character slightly, so they weren't so clear to the audience. I did this to create a mystery of who or what it is. I also use a fade to black transition between the institution opening and the first shot of my film.

There were a few shots that I cut down  to the right length, or picked out bits from it to put together into one shot.  I tried to cut out any bits that didn't go as I wanted them, but there was one shot of my main character smiling when she shouldn't have. I couldn't cut this shot out as it made the continuity drop, as it looked like there was something missing.I also picked out certain parts of the soundtrack, that I then cut out to have under certain scenes, such as the creepy spoken section in the middle.

I played around with some of the effects such as blurs and transitions, but found that a lot of them wouldn't work with the shots. I also didn't want to use effects or transitions just for the sake of using them, as they wouldn't be effective or improve the production.

I would say that Premier elements is an good system to use as it is really easy, however, it did crash a few times, and failed to save some changes, meaning I had to repeat various cuts, effects etc, making the process longer than it should have been.

I used the school's computer to do all of my media work; all the research, planning, film and evaluation were done at school. I transfered all the filming from the camera to the computer to edit the footage. I found the school computer easy to use and it had the right programs on it to be able to edit and cut footage and music. I decided to use the school computer as I had easier access to it on a daily basis

This is the camera I used for the filming and it had a clear video image. The camera being light was easy to handle and we found no faults with the camera when using it. The camera was a suitable size and could film every shot we needed including a wide shot. The editing process for the camera was slow because I had a lot of high definition footage.