EVAL Q4 Technologies Used

This is part of our answer to the AS evaluation question for use of technologies, we have made a remake of an apple keynote address for final cut pro x
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AS my previous blog posts state:
I have used a large variety of technology over the course of this year. I have used:

Hardware:

• Camera

• DSLR
• Action Camera (GoPro) 
• Smartphone
• Stabilisation
• Tripod
• Monopod
• Gorillapod
• Gimbal/Stabilizer
• Computers
• Mac to do the editing 
• Windows at home to do research 
• Chromebook for blogging 
• Keyboard to record music 
• Microphone to record voice overs and music

Software/websites:

• Final Cut Pro X (nearly all feautures)
• Titles 
• Transitions 
• Keyframing 
• Colour correction 
• Greenscreen
• Animations 
• Special FX
• Freeze framing  

• Adobe Premiere (when there was no access to a Mac)
• same features as used for final cut 

• Audacity (for sound distortion) 
• Blogger
• blogging on the journey taken throughout the media course 
• Using Microsoft Office
• Word
• Powerpoint
• Soundcloud
• uploading
• embedding
• Screen recording software to record screen on PC 

• Slideshare 
• uploading
• embedding
• uploading from Word and Powerpoint 
• Photoshop
• creating ident 
• Youtube

• playlists
• uploading
• embeding 

Here is the Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial where I talk about how to use the effects and tools in more depth. 

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Below I have a screen recording where I go through some of the software used to create this blog and to help with research and making of the film opening.

ROUGH CUT Playlist with all cuts

This is a playlist with all our rough cuts and sample scenes so they are easy to find and look through to see the improvemnet from the beginning. We ordered it by date so the latest cuts are on top and the oldest are at the bottom.

PRELIM Exercise

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For this exercise we had only 1 hour to storyboard, plan and film a 10 shot short clip which included a shot-reverse-shot, used the 180 degree rule, had continuity editing and had a match-on-action shot. We had to create narrative enigma and anchor what is happening in the sequence. We completed the whole exercise using two cameras. These shots were handheld: guy coming in through door, establishing shot, shot of feet and over the shoulder towards door, whereas the rest of the shots were done using a tripod.

My definitions of...

Continuity editing: A sequence of clips edited in a smooth consistent way, without any jumps in time or space.

180 degree rule: Setting up the cameras so that 180 degrees of the area is being filmed, I would draw an imaginary line and set up cameras behind it making sure that the lenses don't cross that line

Shot reverse shot: Also known as shot/countershot is a film technique used to show characters in a conversation (or something of the sorts) with another character, however apart from a two-shot only one character is shown at a time giving it the feel of shot - countershot -shot -countershot.

Match-on-action: Its when a shot cuts to another shot within the previous shot. For example with the door, at first half the door was filmed, then the next shot cut to the door handle being opened, which was in the previous shot of the door.

What we learnt:

We need to plan shoots with call sheets, story-boards and a very clear idea about what is happening. This would save us so much time and trouble when filming. We also need to take repeat shots if they aren't up to standard, and even then, take more just to be sure. We need to familiarise ourselves with more technology like a gimble and dolly to get a way easier variety of shots included. We need to practice our manual focus as this was a difficult task during the filming of the prelim. We didn't have any costumes or props other than the clothes we wore to school that day. We improvised with the hoods to fit the characterbetter, this needs working on in the future as we begin to realise the importance of mise-en-scene. One of our scenes had to be refilmed at another date as after fighting with the editing program for a good time we decided it would be easier just to refilm the one scene we were missing. This taught us we needed to make sure that everything is backed up.

Our planning:

TECHNOLOGY Used So Far

Hardware:

• Camera

• DSLR
• Action Camera (GoPro) 
• iPhone
• Stabilisation
• Tripod
• Monopod
• Gorillapod
• Computers
• Mac
• Windows

Software/websites:

• Final Cut Pro X
• Blogger
• Slideshare 
• uploading
• embeding
• Youtube
• playlists
• uploading
• embeding 
• Photoshop