Evaluation Task 6

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 7

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Adobe Premiere Pro is the editing programme we used as a group to edit our teen angst film opening. As a group we edited our film and made joint decisions as a team. We learnt how to use many different editing techniques within premiere pro. For example we used the cutting tool to cut down our footage to make sure we only included the relevant part of film. We also used the replay tool within the programme to add a dramatic affect of the hair flip to suit our genre. Using Adobe Premiere Pro we were able to add in special effects such as the monochrome effect to our opening which helped to set the scene and atmosphere. We also were able to add in transitions and text over the top of our footage, which helped majorly to improve our film from the original first draft. Adobe also allowed us to slow down and speed up our footage. We used both the slow down and speed up in our teen angst opening and managed to do it without difficulty which again helped improve the quality of out film.

A programme we used as a group to help us during our filming was PowerPoint Presentation for several reasons. Such as we created a group PowerPoint to present our original idea to our class for feedback. I also used Power Point to enlarge my images before I imported them onto blogger which helped me to organise my images more clearly and it made them a better size as you cannot crop images on blogger which we struggled with during the establishing of our blogs. However we overcome this problem by using Microsoft Powerpoint.

Above is a screenshot of our imessage group chat which we used to communicate with each other to arrange filming locations and timings. This helped us to ensure we met deadlines as it helped us to become aware of when each other where free. Also we could only edit our film opening at school so we used this group chat to know when we could get together and edit in our free periods at school.

We also used YouTube a lot when creating and researching our teen angst film opening. We used this programme to initially upload our prelimary task to present to our class and receive feedback. We then also used it to upload 2 drafts which only received a total of 15 hits. I also used the annotations tool when completing my evaluations to annotate our film to help identify teen angst conventions.

Another social media platform we used is Facebook. We used the events part of it to create Holly's party event so we could film Chanel sitting on her phone receiving the notification which added suspense and mystery into our opening. Teenagers would be able to relate to this as they use Facebook events to plan parties so they would be more interested. This idea is also used in teen angst films such as easy a so we thought it would be essential in our film opening.

To film our film opening we used a Panasonic HD camera, we used this camera to capture all of our footage for our film. I mainly filmed the opening however as I starred as one of the main characters my group also helped out filming for the parts I was starring in the film. As a group we found it easy to use the camera. My main job during the creation of our film was the filming however as I was one of the main characters in the film myself and Ellie Hancock took it in turns filming. We used a tripod when filming to ensure we had no shaky shots to make sure we have optimal performance of our camera.

As we used a voiceover in our production we had to use a voice recorder. To start with we firstly used an apple iPhone to record the voiceover however this did not work as it wasn't good enough quality so we had to get hold of a voice recorder. I had not previously used this so I had to learn all the buttons that I would use and also learn how to play this back to make sure we had a clear recording. In the end our voiceover came out clearly which makes our film opening more effective.