Media – Q6 – what have you leant about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
When filming we used a lot of hardware for instance trackers, we used those to film a tracking shot at the beginning of the film on the road. I learnt how to film the shot, and that when filming the shot you can’t be too fast or slow, it has to be perfect in order to make the shot look high-quality. We also used the tripod, we sued this to put the camera on, in order to get the camera perfectly straight, also to create different angle shot, for example the high angle shot used when Anne falls on the floor, I was able to learn how to change the tripod in order to make the shots happen, also how to assemble the tripod, which was important because I wanted to show that i could help with the set up of the equipment as well as other jobs, like lighting. During the process in which we were filming we had to make sure that no rules were broken for example the 180 degree rule, this rule is a imaginary line that you can’t pass when filming, for example if you are filming someone from the left hand side, you have to stay on that side at all times, secondly we made sure that the we caught our shots ‘match on action’, this means we have to make the shots flow without any mistakes and that all the shots once put together matched the previous shot. Every group also had to do a safety shot, which is when you film all the shots in one big frame in case you other shots get lost or so, so we made sure we did a safety shot in case. I learnt how to do different angles as I said before using the tripod, here are all the times we used angles in our shots, the high angle shot used when Anne fell on the floor from her bed and low angle when the camera is on the floor looking at Anne from a view from her feet. I also learnt how to use the camera for the first time, so I got to understand what does what on the camera and the different tools e.g. the different settings, manual and automatic, during the process it filming had to be done on the setting ‘automatic’, that was one mistake my group had done for the beginning, as the camera was on manual making the shots a little fussy, but this was later sorted out, and solved.
We also used software, the editing programme we used to complete the film for instance. I learnt probably the most when editing, than actually filming because I had never used any editing software before so it was good to have the chance to challenge myself. I learnt how to cut different shots for example the slice tool, this was helpful in a great deal, because we needed to shorten or get rid of certain shots to make the film less than 3 minutes. Another tool that I learnt was the making of the titles, making the titles was one key element to make our opening sequence look more professional, it was easy once learnt, and after finishing the titles it showed me how quick and easy it can be to make titles only once you learn it.
The main things I learnt that I didn’t know before were mostly editing, for instance the whole process in which you come up with the final product, like cutting, I knew you had to cut, but I didn’t know what tools to use, this will be useful especially if I do media again next year or in the future. I also learnt how to use the camera, this was the most important, because if you don’t know how to use the camera then filming would take longer and you could maybe mistakenly not even filmed anything when you thought you were, so that was diffentatly important, i learnt how to put the tape in and out, I learnt how to record, stop, play, rewind etc.
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