We have used many different technologies throughout the project to work to our advantage. To shoot our film we used a college camera that was of DV quality, unfortunately the cameras battery failed on the day of the shoot due to it being very cold weather and the battery being quite old so I instead used a camera of my own that was of the same quality. However as we didn’t manage to film on schedule this put us 2 weeks behind everyone else and 2 weeks behind editing time so we decided instead to get on with our ancillary tasks.
We used ‘In Design CS3’ and ‘Photoshop CS3’ to edit our photos. We opened our photos with Photoshop to make colour corrections and to crop the image and then used In Design to make the final touches.
To colour grade in Photoshop you click on the image tab and then down to adjustments and this gives you a wide range of different options to choose from. For example in the poster I clicked on the black and white tab and changed the colour tabs to try and get the best stark difference in black and white. The crop tool lies on the left hand side of the photo and with this tool you simply click around the image until you are happy with what is left and then click enter and this crops your image. Then saving your photo as a JPEG it’s simple to import into In Design. After saving your photo into In Design you save your photo to the highest resolution possible for the best quality of photo for you to show on your blog. You save your file as in In Design file and simply upload it to your blog.
To edit out film we used the program ‘Final Cut Express’. This program once used regularly is easy to manipulate so that you can slow down and speed up film, colour grade film and easy to cut parts of film out that not needed.
Firstly to get your footage onto final cut you need to click ‘file’, go down to ‘import’ and then click ‘files’ again until you are left to browse your computer to find your footage. After importing your footage all you need to do is drag the footage onto the top timeline. You then repeat the process to get your song onto final cut put putting it on the bottom timeline. After that you then lock your bottom time line with the clicking on the small padlock icon at the left hand side of the timeline. To then cut your footage into pieces you select the razor tool at the bottom ride hand side of the timeline or ‘cmd’ ‘b’ is a commonly known shortcut. Once you have cut or moved your footage on the timeline you will be forced to render it, to render your footage you select what footage you wish to render, this is shown by a red line above the footage, then select ‘sequence’, ‘render, render all, render only’. All the effects that you will need are on the effects tab at the top of the screen, you will find most of the popular effects such as speed and colour grading under the ‘video transitions’ tab.
Throughout the project we have used the internet to help us along. Youtube was a very good help as it allowed us to compare and contrast our own work to work of professionals and other amateur film makers like myself. It also allowed us to see what type of conventions were typical of our genre and what could be challenged. Wikipedia was also a massive help to us as it gave us much needed information about branding. And finally slideshare as it allowed us to put up our work on blogger.
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