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During the making of
our film opening, we learnt about new technologies and over time developed our
skills on them. The main new technologies we used were Final Cut Pro,
Garageband and LiveType.
We used LiveType to
create our idents. At first, Sarah and I had never heard of the software. We
learnt by experimenting with different things on it such as different live
fonts where the font has an effect on it, and changing the position of the
words. We created our three idents using a mixture of footage and livetype.
We used Garageband for
creating our soundtrack. Again, Sarah and I had never used Garageband before,
and didn’t know how to use it. We learnt the basics and then experimented with
different instruments and sounds. We also researched which instruments fitted
the slasher genre most. This was usually strings or synth effects. We kept
experimenting until we found what we wanted for our movie. I think our
soundtracks really make the movie and without them it wouldn’t be as effective.
On our feedback, many people said that the soundtrack was very effective.
Final Cut Pro is what
we edited our movie on. Sarah and I hadn’t used it before so we had to start
learning from scratch. At first we learnt the basic editing skills such as how
to use the blade tool. We then started looking at different effects by making
the cctv footage. This is an example of how we edited the film. First, we added
the effects such as Bad Tv and Black and White. This made it black and white
and fuzzy. We then experimented around until we got the timer section, which we
made say a certain date and time to make it seem more realistic. We also edited
it so we cut certain parts out like the stabbing which we felt seemed fake.
We changed certain
shots on final cut to make them more effective like creating close ups and
dutch angles. Some of our experiments didn’t make it into our final cut such as
experimenting with cross fading for example.
The most useful tools
to us were the different effects and colour changing tools as these really
helped create a sinister and slasher feel to our movie.
The technology all in
all helped us create very close to what we imagined and planned for. I think if
we had used analogue film it would have not had the same look or feel to the
movie, especially with all the effects we used and editing. It would also have
taken a lot longer. This shows how digitisation is making film making a lot
more accessible to everyone for cheaper.
If anything, a better
quality camera could have helped us in our low level lighting scenes of which
there were a lot of, but overall the equipment and technology used was very
good and helped us create what we had invisioned.
This has shown us that
we could create a movie, similar to Le Donk and Scor-zay-zee and Colin, which
were both made on microbudgets using similar technology to what we used.
Overall we have learnt
how to utilise all these new technologies to our advantage, using garageband to
create a soundtrack and experimenting with different sounds, we have learnt how
to decide if it sounded good or not so good, we have learnt how to make a basic
linear cut on Final Cut and also how to add effects, editing, and transitions
to develop the movie even further into what we wanted it to be.
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