Question 6

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

During the project I have used a lot of different types of technology to create our final project, examples of these would be Adobe Premier Pro Suite, Adobe Photoshop, held hand video camera and Digital SLR Camera, all of which help me find new ways of presenting the project.

By using Adobe Premier Pro I’ve learned the tools I need to put together music and sound to create a final outcome. Using tools like the razor I could import and cut the shots we had to create scenes that would later be put together with the titles, I also used this tool to create a loop with a short piece of music that needed lengthening to fit with the scenes. It may have been easier just to find a longer piece music but we felt that using the music we liked was worth risking it sounding jumpy rather than using a version that didn’t fit aswell, however after a lot of attention and time making sure it flowed, right down to  each millisecond it ended up working very well with the film. After researching how title sequences appear in film openings I was able to create title stills with the appropriate credits that we needed, these were put slots wear time was supposed to pass between scenes, this is were I learnt about transitions and by using a cross dissolve going into and out of the credits it helped to create the illusion of time passing.

For the opening flash sequence of the company title we used a DSLR Camera to take pictures of the images I had drawn, importing these photographs onto Adobe Premier Pro allowed me to crop and cut the images down to appropriate amount of times to make the images flash into a sequence, overall creating a small anamatic presenting the name and logo of our “film company”. We also used this same technique of photographing drawing to create our anamatic of the film title and the very end of the opening; however we used a secondary programme to fill colour before putting it together on Adobe Premier Pro.

Adobe Photoshop was the programme that enabled me to fill in colour and also variate with colour on our line drawings of the final anamatic. Using simple tools such as the fill bucket to make block colour into the lines but some of the less structured images meant I had to use selective tools to fill in colour where it was needed. I also used a tool called Hue to quickly change to colouring of the images and saving each one for a range of colours. This meant when I imported them into Adobe Premier Pro I could make a sequence pattern with the colours and repeat it so we could lengthen the time of the title (doing this meant we had the reverse the middle sequence to make it seem as though it goes back on itself to loop round to the final still). This software made it easier to show the story of the anamatic because if it didn’t exist we would have had to draw out lots of the pictures over and over again colouring them all which would have been a very long drawn out process.

Overall I feel that all this technology makes it simpler and easier to create and tell a story, each type of software makes it easier for the creator to have as much creative design and influence as possible, from the basic shots to creating whatever it is they want. From having previous experience with all these technologies also helped because I have used a digital camera in Photography and Photoshop in both Graphics and Photography, making it easier for me to show the story in my head and put it on screen.