Evaluation Q6

During the planning, production and editing of our sequence, the whole group had to start using new equipment and technology. We had the luck of being able to use an Apple Mac to edit our film. None of us had used Apple Mac's before as we all have Windows Vista installed on our computers. Although this was a change, it was fairly simple to pick up with the new outlook of the computers and all the programs we had to use. We used three main programs when producing and editing our film, these included Final Cut Express (click here to show a tutorial of how to use the program), we also used LiveType, this program was used for us to create the credits in the film. You can choose from a database of fonts and livetexts to use as samples to design the font and background you wanted. This was probably the hardest program to get hold of and understand what the different navigations did, but it was possible to do so and we were happy with our final credits. I was limited to camera work as another member in our group done most of the camera, but I did get a good understanding, of camera shots and movement from what shots I did film. We decided to include parallel shooting in our film to allow the audience to know about the Killer before the victim Adam did. This was hard at first, but after thinking about how we were going to tackle the problem, we completed it quite comfortably. We also filmed during the night and the day, and we also had to reshoot some shots, so to try and keep continuity with shooting at slightly different times of the day was hard, but we tried our best with the lighting. With final cut on the Apple Mac's we had to edit anything that went wrong in our film, this included jump cuts and anything that we felt was not needed in the film. This program helped us out on more than one occasion when it came to jump cuts, as we had a few in our first draft, that we were able to get rid of for the final piece. The last piece of software we used was called garage band and this was to create a non-diegetic sound that was going to be played in the background of our film during a certain time to represent a feeling of sadness and emotion. We were lucky to find a great sample track off the program that we could import straight into our film so we didnt have to go through all of the controls and configure our own track. The only time we used software we were all experienced with was the use of Microsoft Excel, where we created our Questionnaire, and also our graphs to show our results.

GarageBand tutorial - click to view

LiveType tutorial - click to view, this shows a few videos of how to use LiveType