Evaluation Question 6

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

I     In the preliminary, the camera shots were very basic as we weren't experienced with the camera and making a film. The shots that we did use were predominately mid shots through the corridor, close ups of Jack's face and the door handle, a two shot of the two teachers and shot reverse shot of the three people engaging in a conversation. As the location was in a little room and not the woodlands like for my final product, it was difficult to accomplish a good film in the space that we had. 

      

       The editing software that we used for our prelim was Serif Movie Plus. The software was very basic and it was easy to edit the film, it took us around an hour considering it was new to us. We just needed to drag the shots together to create the film. We didn't use any effects or transitions during the film and we also didn't have any sound to go to the film, although we didn't think we needed any. However, for the final product we used Adobe Premier Pro CS3. This was a lot more better to use because in my opinion it was better to use. Premier Pro gave us what Serif Movie Plus had but more advanced as it was more professional compared to the "GCSE style" Serif. The availability of transitions and effects for our film were at our fingertips and with the help of sound improved the film enormously. We could also create effects like slow motion that we couldn't use on Serif.