In order to produce a
thriller opening, we had to use a variety of technology in order to pan,
produce and post-production equipment. This technology has not only enabled me
to produce this but taught us about the process of constructing media products.
It has, in particular, enriched my digital literacy and given a certain sense
of creative empowerment through its democratization.
Pre-production of my
thriller opening used a variety of websites to collect research. For example,
all of our research has been done on a blog. These are an ongoing multimedia
platform with online accessibility allowing for fast feedback and it’s easily
updated due to its ongoing status making it very practical. In addition, it
allows total ownership as well as customisation making it personal and allowing
for creative empowerment in a making your blog original as such.
Moving away from
blogs, we used Dropbox in order to access images that are used collaboratively
for blog posts, particularly at the stage of researching other thrillers. As well
as this, we used one drive for collaborative blog posts so that we could all
edit PowerPoints at the same time that was easily accessible.
In terms of
creativity, we used websites containing a great variety of content widening our
thriller’s possibilities. For fonts in the thriller opening to add the credits,
we used Dafont which appeared to contain endless fonts to choose from allowing
for very specific, well selected, font choices. For sound, we used FreeSFX website
which also contained a very wide variety of sounds including effects and
background to be added non-diegetically into our thriller opening. Both of
these websites were received as creatively empowering enriching the media
possibilities.
The second section of
this was the actual production of our thriller opening. Within this, we shot
using HD cameras with a tripod allowing steadiness. The cameras were high-quality
allowing our thriller to look relatively professional in its product. We used
an SD card in order to record our thriller shots from the camera onto editing
software in a post-production sense. This was useful as our thriller was collaborative
and we could transfer the shots onto multiple things. In addition, it was
relatively fast. With the camera, we also had control over the settings in
terms of focus and zoom allowing creativity and further widening shot capability.
Finally, the instant playback setting allowed us to know straight away if the
shot was okay giving us knowledge on if we need to re-shoot anything.
Post-production
technology also greatly impacted our thriller, in addition to adding music and
text as mentioned in pre-production, we used non-linear editing software which allowed
us to edit our shots in any order, non-chronologically. This was helpful as we
could go back and re-edit removing and adding parts where necessary. It also
allowed us to check the edit in addition to refine it. Most importantly, the
editing software allowed for creative empowerment as well as many technologies
do making room for individuality and specificity.
Change the labels: it should just be labelled as G321 Evaluation
ReplyDeleteYou outline some of the key aspects of technology clearly here, Amber, and I'm pleased to see you linking to empowerment etc.
ReplyDeleteIt would be useful to add a final summary paragraph to answer this question: How have your skills and knowledge as a film maker developed during Year 12?
"It would be useful to add a final summary paragraph to answer this question: How have your skills and knowledge as a film maker developed during Year 12?"
DeleteIgnore this comment - I posted to the wrong blogpost.
This blogpost is fine and doesn't need editing.