1. What have you learnt
about
Technologies from the
process
Of constructing the
products?
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2. During the planning
and editing of our film
we had to use
different technologies
in order to get a
professional looking
film at the end.
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3. Using a Mac computer
made us understand how
EQUIPMENTS Mac computer was
films are being made and used in order to use
how to use different softwares to edit
effects in order to make opening scene.
a professional looking Since the Mac
film. The advantage to computer was very
using a Mac computer is new to us we had
that it is what problems using the
professional use in the softwares on it.
film industry and once Also, the Mac
you have learnt the computer is very
techniques it is easy to different from PC as
use. However the bad there is only one
thing about using a Mac type of Mac
is that if you have never computer but there
used a Mac computer are different
before it will be difficult manufactures for a
to use the computer and PC.
the softwares on it.
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4. EQUIPMENT
The camera was one of the most easiest
equipment to use. As this is a basic camera,
all we had to do was switch the camera to on,
click the record button and start filming. The
problem we faced with the camera was one
which we could have prevented. As we were
in the middle of our filming the camera
battery ran out, so we were unable to
continue with the filming since we were in the
middle of a forest. However luckily, I
(Victoria) had my own person camcorder on
me because I had to take pictures of our
location so we used my camcorder instead.
When we had to import the footage into the
Mac computer the software could not
recognise the type of video we used so we
had to convert the video into a MP4 so that
computer could be able to recognise the
video.
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5. SOFTWARES
The softwares we used in our opening scene was Final Cut Pro, Live Type, the internet, blogger and YouTube. We
used Final cut pro because this was the editing software which films industry commonly uses. The first time we
used Final Cut Pro was when we were doing our preliminary task, I personally think that it was very difficult to use
at the time because I have never used an editing software like Final Cut Pro so it looked very complicated at the
time. The only editing software I have used is Window Movie maker and compared to Final Cut Pro, Window
Movie Maker is much more easier. However as I was getting used to using Final Cut Pro I have realised that it is
not that hard and that it has much more features than what any other editing software I have used, and also gives
much more types of effects that will make the opening scene much more professional. The most common editing
we used in our opening scene was ‘ dip to colour’ and ‘colour tint’. Dip to colour allowed us to fade into another
scene using a different colour, in our opening scene we used the colour white and the speed of the dip to colour
effect was between one and two second which creating a flash. Colour tint was used in make the scene we chose
black and white so that it can create a flashback effect, this was all done automatically so all I had to do was click
on the clip and click on Colour tint. Final cut was very useful to use because it enable us to edit our film and
therefore create a professional looking film.
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6. Live Type was used to create our production
name, film name and also the people who played
in our film and the people who done the editing.
With live type we were able to put in different
effects so that we can present our movie in a
professional manner. This program was useful to
us because we were able to write text in our film
with different types of effects so this means that
we can change the colour and we were able to
change the speed when It comes to into the film.
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7. The internet is also a
software which we
used in order to get
information and do
research, by having the
internet we were able
to create a blog so that
we are able to post our
media work onto the
internet. The internet
also helped us to get
information on other
software that we used
such as Final Cut Pro
and how to use this
softwares.
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8. The blog website was
used in order to post
all our work online so
that the examiner and
our teacher would be
able to see how we
made our thriller
movie.
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9. YouTube was used in order to find the
music we need for our opening scene, we
found a music which someone created and
we asked permission before using it in our
movie. This will prevent us from stealing
copyright music which could cancel the
audio if we are not allowed to use it.
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