We used many types of media technologies in all stages of producing our movie project; these include types of hardware and software to help us in the production. Examples of these are digital cameras; the camera we used is a Sony HD 100. The camera is of great quality and the boom that picks up sound is also very good which gives clear conversations and has minimal external sounds such as wind making their way into the film.
This is a link to images of the camera we used to film or production. We also used editing software called final cut express. This is very good software to use to add all types of editing and effects to give your production the edge over other productions being shown around the internet. The software has a very simple layout which makes it easy for new uses to get to grips with the software and after a while of using the equipment you get used to the layout you can make a very good production that looks professional.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTodkjB8KQ
This link shows how the software works and the basics of the kind of things you can achieve with the editing software. Another piece of equipment we used is digital sound recording equipment. We used something known as a zoom recorder to record the sounds we added into the film and also the voice over of the radio trailer we used this piece of equipment. This equipment gives a great sound quality which helps with the clarity and believability of our production.
This link shows images of the type of zoom recorder we used for our production. We also used the internet for our research into many different things about our production. The internet is probably the best part of our equipment as this helps us reach types of research we wouldn’t previously be able to achieve without it as many websites are from other countries so without it we would have struggled to get information and also to get ideas for our production. Websites we used are things such as:
http://freemusicarchive.org/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://lknmedia.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Kieran%20Lawless
These are websites we used to find our music fir our production, get ideas and information and also keep all our findings in a blog on Blogger.
These types of technology helped greatly with the creativity of our film as we realised the barriers of our film were very minimal and we could almost do anything our minds could come up with. A good example of this is the scene where Kieran disappears as the scene is actually two shots placed together instead of one continuous shot which made it very hard to achieve this but the editing software final cut made this possible. The internet helped massively as the music became a massive problem for us as our original piece of music turned out to be copyrighted which isn’t allowed for our production so the internet helped us find a piece of music which fitted well as well as being non copyrighted. The camera helped massively with its professional look and style as this helped the production look more believable and stylish and more like a piece of art than an amateur film. The zoom recorder made the radio trailer possible as without it we wouldn’t have been able to achieve the voice over that gave the trailer a very powerful feel and attractiveness for the audience. There were some limitations with some of the technology such as the editing software final cut only having a limited amount of effect to add. There were some aspects we had to scrap because if this, it wasn’t too bad as we made some changes which were very nice and could also be arguably better than our original ideas we had.
The following Link is for our feature length production:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJyeITd_msU&context=C4bdd1cfADvjVQa1PpcFMByT3JOu8CC38tTqROk_5j_tfP1DvKy-0=
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