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

The Avid programme was used to edit my work this year. This programme had an influence on my pre production as it enabled use non linier filming meaning we didn’t have to shoot in chronological order meaning it made my filming more efficient.

Using the edit programme enabled me to add certain effects to the film and cut in between shots which showed action reaction shots making our opening more interesting to view.

The Programme meant that our work more professional and of a higher quality than if we used an editing software such as windows movie maker

The Cannon HD camera was a very big advantage in filming. Not only did allow me to produce a very high quality finish, it also helped the day go faster as the camera is considerably light so it was very portable when moving from location to location which meant it made the day time efficient

The Blog was used to communicate between teachers and students on the Blog we were able to find certain items that would aid us with our work, the Blog was also was big help when we was displaying our work to our fellow classmates for feedback and responses.

Also the Blog made it easier to display our work to be marked online.

The internet was the biggest aid throughout the whole project. This helped me with my research and planning, without this I wouldn’t be able to find certain representations and watch fairy tales online to relate to my work. Also I wouldn’t be able to research opening sequences which I used certain traits when making my own.

Using tripod we were able to perform tilts and pans which made our opening much more interesting. We also used the camera to zoom in and out of characters when filing from a distance which again made our opening interesting, this also enabled us to give our actors room to act because we could firm from a distance allowing them room to move about without worrying where the camera is.

With the help of avid I was able to learn the techniques of a rough assemble which is putting all our rushes in order.

We were able to digitise using the capture tool, which is basically capturing your good shot of the tape, which was able to easily because of our continuity sheet which told us which shots were good and bad.

We were able to input our credits in the correct positions and use fades and dissolves to make them look more interesting.

We used trimming techniques to trim shots that we didn’t need to use or we wanted some of the shot and the same shot but from another angle.

We also learnt how to delete shot and move shots about, we done this quite a lot because at some stages of our editing the sound and the video were out of sync.

The key lessons I have learnt from filming are:

• How to set up the camera, tripod, put in the batteries, tape and sliding the camera on to the tripod.
• How to use the camera to perform tilts, pans and zooms.
• Positioning the camera so the actors are able to perform better
• Placing the boom microphone in a position where it can’t be seen in frame and in the best position to pick up sound.

The key lesson I have learnt from editing are how to:

• Perform a rough assemble edit
• Trim shots
• Splice in shots
• Take away sound from shots
• Deleting and moving shots
• Marking in and marking out shots
• Creating and applying titles
• Adding such as fades and dissolves to certain shots