AS FOUNDATION PORTFOLIO JORDAN BARCLAY: Video Evaluation - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In this video, I answer the question "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

Notes:

We used editing software such as Premiere, Photoshop, and audition, to optimise the three key elements that makes our film successful. Visuals, Audio and screenplay.

We learnt a lot during the filming of our production. One of the most important decisions we made was to use a DSLR over the school’s SD camcorders. After doing a little research, we found that by using an SLR, we had the option to use a variety of lenses with variable apertures, shutter speeds, and manual focus. This was huge.

Rather than recording onto tape, we recorded to a 16GB SD in 720P at 24 frames per second which is US film standard.

The camcorders recorded at either 30 or 60 frames per second which is preferable for sports over actual film. This is changeable in POST using premiere, but it proved more efficient to get as much correct in camera as possible, to avoid loosing quality from over processing the final clips.

We wrote more of the story than seen in the two minute slot. This was so that we had more to talk about un terms of where our film would go if we were to go on and produce the whole thing. We knew this was important because it helped us to perfect the story for the two minute slot and It allowed us to make the clip flow more like an actual beginning to a film, rather than making the mistake of making it a trailer which isn’t the task set.

We used a tripod to help us achieve steady shots throughout our production. This proved extremely helpful an made our film more successful than if we were trying to record with handheld shots.