Evaluation question 6:

Q6; What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?  

When producing our opening sequence we were provided with our own kit. Within the kit we had various technologies some we had used before, such as the camera and its tripod, whereas some we had not such as lighting.
 

When it came to the health and safety on the set, most of what we learnt involved the lighting:

• The lights became hot very quickly, which meant when handling them between shots we had to wear the gloves provided.
• We had to be careful with the wires from the lights, making sure not to trip up over them
• We had to make sure when placing the lights they were steady, making sure to put them on a steady surface, and positioning them so they were steady.

Camera

The camera we used was a Canon HV 30  which was a lightweight, portable camera. We  used a shotgun microphone to capture our footage and audio. Within the construction of our opening sequence, we learnt about how to use this technology to produce a video in an organised fashion By:

• Using the clapperboard
• Using the headphones, and the sound detector on the camera to detect any unwanted background noise before filming.

Camera Movement

Our main development within our opening sequence when it came to the camera, was the use of camera movement.
Our sequence contained various shots which involved camera movement, at such a height and angle that a tripod could not be used.
This meant we had to develop a way of filming movement shots to the potential quality as if they were involving a tripod. This led us to learn and a develop a method in doing so.
As you can see from the comparison of our test shoot and main edit, us learning from the way in which the camera's movement worked and the outcome in this which we see within the test shoot led us to develop a much smoother way of created the movement we wanted.

Test Shoot:

Main Edit:

 

Although our camera movement improved greatly I still feel we could have done it better. In order to  create the shot even better knowing what we know now I would have dedicated more time to movement shots, experimenting with an even wider range of different ways. This would enable shots like the following to be a lot better,  which i feel would improve the quality of the opening sequence as a whole:

The movement for this shot is very unsteady, jolting on numerous occasions.

 

Editing:

The program we used was Adobe Premiere Pro  and there were numerous techniques which we learnt from using it.

Grading:

 

Using Adobe Premiere Pro taught us how to use:

 

Brightness and Contrast

In order to emphasise the stylistic approach to our opening sequence we used contrast to bring definition to imagery.

 

 

Three way colour corrector
After we had used brightness and contrast we used three way colour corrector to even out the defined shots we had created. We focused on the warmth in our sequence, in which we used three way colour corrector to draw out the red, oranges and yellows stirring away from blues and greens.



After three way colour corrector:

Before three way colour corrector:

 

Creating titles:

We edited our titles using LiveType and Premiere Pro for the VENGEANCE title

 

Our final title 'Vengeance', gave us a real opportunity to experiment, and learn about how to use this program. We experimented with using a gradient effect, the title going from a darker red at the bottom to a lighter red at the top.

 

Transitions:

Due to the style we chose for our titles to appear, we used transitions so the cut from our shot to our separate title shot wasn't as abrupt. We used fade to dissolve, placing it before entering a title, and after our title had finished going into the next shot.  

 

Which came to the outcome of:

 

Sound:

When comparing our test shoot and main edit there is a really difference in how we used our soundtrack.
In our test shoot, our music started loud, then we edited the sound to gradually become quieter and louder in between dialogue, so we could hear what the characters were saying properly.
However we realised this was slightly disorientating, becoming a rollercoaster of sound.

 

In our main edit we had our sound at a lower volume overall gradually decreasing our soundtrack throughout building up to the speech, only increasing it when the final title appeared at the end. This was a more subtle approach.
Video of you showing editing of sound with talking
We changed the sound from majorly decreasing