Media Evaluation Q6

1. Despite already having a decent amount of knowledge
in the programs used to develop my film opening,
through the development process has allowed me to
dedicate many hours to programs such as: Final Cut
Pro and Motion. With dedicating these multiple hours
to developing my film opening, I have widened my skill
set as well as knowledge in the applications.
Something new that I truly did learn through the
process of making my film opening was adding
complex animations to objects in Motion, since I was
slightly shaky on that area beforehand.

2. Even though I wasn't the cameraman in the filming
chunk of our film opening, I was involved in the setup
as well as technical difficulty side of the camera.
Jordan and myself decided it best not to use the
cameras the school was providing since we had
access to a much higher quality DSLR (Nikon D750)
my father was willing to lend us for the weekend of
filming. A large problem Jordan encountered when
filming was the issue of the auto-focus not locking onto
a constant point since he kept refocusing and blurring
the film. But we got around that issue and Jordan
ended out to be an alright cameraman.
Camera

3. Motion was used to create our institutional logos. Jordan
notified me before we begin the development stage of
our studio logos, that he wasn't very experienced in
Motion. So throughout the process of me creating the
studio logo, I was teaching Jordan some techniques and
tricks I already knew from pervious experience with the
application. In terms of learning new skills within Motion,
I learnt how to manipulate an object to give it 3D
aspects. Despite me actually using the 3D manipulation
to create a logo, I decided it best to to use the 3D-like
logo since it was too complex and didn't match the titles
in which Jordan and myself were planning - which were
very simplistic.
Motion

4. This is probably my strong point when it came to skill set within
applications since I have done previous work with the application
in order to produce previous freelance projects I was involved in.
Such as a basketball work out video, which I both filmed and
edited over the Christmas Holidays of 2014. Similar to Motion,
Jordan didn't have much experience in Final Cut Pro either, so he
had a lot of learning to do and I had a lot of teaching to do during
the post production process of our film opening. A new feature I
learnt about in Final Cut Pro, was the voice over feature, in the
past I have made a voice recording on another application such as
Garageband and then imported it into Final Cut Pro. But when I
was in the process of creating my film voice over analysis, I
discovered the ability to record a voice over directly in the app,
which allows for a much more efficient work flow since I didn't have
to keep switching applications when doing voice overs.
Final Cut Pro

5. Despite me using YouTube on a daily basis, I have never
actually uploaded a video to the service. In the I am possibly
considering uploading content I have created to my own
personal channel. I have come to this conclusion because, from
using YouTube to upload clips to my blog, I have noticed that
having a YouTube account is like having a universal portfolio of
work, videos can be accessed on your mobile devices,
televisions, computers. So if anyone asks to see some of your
work (that being film/media based work), if you have it uploaded
to YouTube, you can just shoot them a link and they have
access to your whole portfolio of media projects you have
worked on in the past. Using the YouTube application was pretty
self explanatory, you upload you clip, then simply embed the
video link onto your blog so others can view it though your blog
without having to access the actual YouTube website.
YouTube