Film Evaluation: Question 6

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

During out media product, we learned about a lot of different things, like how to use the certain editing software we were given and how to create animations for the production company logo.
Because our film was a Noir, we had to have a black and white filter. We learned to add this through premier pro. Our original plan was to have everything black and white but have the colour red show up - similar to Sin City. However, we learned that this wasn't as easy as it seemed as it would mean showing every little bit of red on the screen and it made it incredibly hard to edit, so to avoid any complications we didn't add any of this and just kept the entire film as black and white.

We also got to use equipment like the dolly, which allowed us to move the camera on the tripod on wheels. This made it look smooth and meant we didn't have to do it handheld. The best use of the dolly was when the main character - Roseanne - stood up from her chair and put her coat on. This looked especially good as not only was the camera getting closer to her, the camera was also moving in a different direction, so it looked very smooth and professional.

Instead of using After Effects to make the production logo, we used a software called Cinema4D. This allowed us to make more animations for the logo. Also, to make this better, we tried to find sounds of cogs spinning round. We added this in Premier Pro to make it sound more effective.

In regards to the sound in our project, we had to make separate volumes for each piece of sound. Some parts were much louder than others and some were quieter, therefore we had to separate the audio for different clips so we could definitely hear everything on the screen. For example when we recorded the narration (which we recorded in the studio at Landau) we had to turn it up so the audience could hear it over everything else that's going on. With the music in the background, we had to turn it up and down in certain areas. An example of this is when Roseanne turns the music on her radio down and the music goes down whilst she turns it down. We learned how to do this in Premier Pro which boosted our knowledge about how the editing software works.