Evaluation- Part Seven

Part Seven- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this project?
The decisions made about the technology are that within the pre-production I would do the filming. Within the production I would film and do some editing. In the post production I would upload the video. We decided as a group to add in jump cuts, and special effects using final cut pro.

I decided to work within the pre-production within filming the title sequence. I also decided that we should have an effect on our production logo. During the production i shot most of the title sequence, although i did not film one over the shoulder shot, an office shot of the investigator picking up his camera and the city parts that were in Hong Kong. In the production stages I also became widely involved within editing. I cut a lot of the footage and put all of the footage in to its exact order in the timeline on final cut pro. I also made a few of the shots faster by editing their speed, and i cut out unwanted sound in some shots. Post-production i uploaded our video to "You Tube" and "Facebook" and I asked the audience for feedback.

We began by using "Blogger" (http://www.blogspot.com/) to plan our whole production. This enabled us to neatly decide what we were and what we were going to film, and for us to decide what all of our roles are. It provided us easy access to all of our planning. We then used a "JVC" video camera as it was the best camera to use as it made all of our footage clearer. We then used a tripod as this stabilised our camera and enabled us to film higher up. Then we used a dolly system in which to move the tripod around whilst filming, this made filming exterior shots a lot easier as it had wheels to move the camera around on. Then we used final cut pro to do all of our editing and uploading of footage. We used Final Cut Pro as it was a professional piece of technology, that thus made of title sequence look more realistic.

The successful uses of new technology in our production would be that of "Blogger" and "Final Cut Pro". The use of Blogger made it vastly easier to know what all of our tasks were and when are deadlines were also. All of this helped as we were all able to keep on track of what we was doing. "Final Cut Pro" enabled us to make sound effects for our production logo, and visual effects on our drug transaction.

The less successful parts would be that "Final Cut Pro" should not be used for the making and editing of our music. As we had many problems with loosing music and having the music jolt within certain places of the music. It made editing the music a lot harder than it should have been.

I have learnt a great deal of knowledge on "Final Cut Pro" i now know how to make shots longer and shorter by decreasing and increasing their sound. I have also learnt how to render pieces of footage to make them appear within the sequence. I have learnt how to add certain effects such as cross dissolving and fading footage. I have learnt how to blend certain shots together.