Question 6

Question 6

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

When starting to film our main task, I did not know much about filming or editing, my only previous experience being with the preliminary task. We had some with filming and editing which taught us a lot about softwares that we wouldn't normally use.

With the filming, we learned that keeping that planning is extremely important, and keeping the camera steady is a lot more important to the final product that you think. When we first filmed, a lot of our shots were shaky, so when we put them together it just looked messy and unprofessional. On top of this, we didn't get all the shots we needed, there were too many messy zooms which made it look like a home video rather than the more executed feel that we wanted, and there were little mistakes throughout our piece (such as the actors looking directly at the camera too often) that we needed to change. We ended up re-filming, but we planned out in detail beforehand, so we knew what shots we needed to have and what things to look out for. 

 In the last scene of our film, the kidnapper is seen to be wearing a shoulder bag which has not been present in any other scenes. We needed to remove the bag from the scene, but could not re-film again it as Oscar who played the kidnapper, had to go back to boarding school and was no longer available. 

        

So we had to experiment with different ways of editing. At first we tried covering the back through effects, by making the video really grainy, however this didn't match with the rest of our film and we decided against it. Later we found out you could Photoshop videos, so we spent three hours going frame by frame and editing the bag out. Unfortunately we couldn't find a way to upload the photoshopped video onto Final Cut Pro, which was the editing software we were using at the time. Despite seeking advice from multiple sources we just were unable to find a way, so had to leave the bag in. 

Through that we learned how to use Photoshop and Final Cut Pro for editing, however for next year we should make sure we find out if it's possible to put Photoshopped videos into Final Cut Pro as we could use it without wasting time.