To help with the research and planning part of this project I created a Facebook group to get audience feedback. I Created a group then invited people who I thought fitted my audience profile, I asked them what films, music and other general things they liked then incorporated as much of this into film as I could. I also used Youtube to research existing film opening from my genre.
After this I created a storyboard and an animatic to show my audience what I thought my film would look like. For this I took photos using a DSLR camera, after I had uploaded these onto a computer I used Premier Pro to create an animatic. I could lengthen or shorten the time different photos ran for to show how long I wanted the shots to last for in my real film.
I found Blogger an effective way to present my planning and research because I could separate each different area of planning in an individual blog; this makes it easier to read through afterwards. However I found that Blogger was not very easy to use sometimes, it is often hard to position pictures to where you would like them.
I used a digital camera to capture my film, I found it very easy to used the camera and got to grip will all of its functions quickly. I used the zoom function most frequently because there are lots of extreme close-ups in my film. I also found the tripod very useful to get high and low angle shots and to keep the camera steady.
After the film was captured I used On Location to get my film onto the computer then Premier Pro to edit it. In Premier Pro I cut and pasted different shots together to make my film run exactly how I wanted it to. I used sound unlinking to remove some of the original sound from the filming and replace it with the sound of a heartbeat; I then used sound gain to make the sound of the heartbeat loud enough to hear. I also used sound ….. to gradually make the music I added grow quieter. I also added some visual effects; I changed the speed of some of the clips so they ran slower than I had filmed them, as well as this I added the ghosting effect to make some of the clips slightly blurred to represent the girl getting high from the drugs she had been using. I also used Premier Pro to add titles to my film, I changed the opacity so they were slightly see through, I also added entrance and exit effects so the titles faded in and out of view.
After I had finished editing I exported the film from Premier Pro and turned it into a FLV format file, I then uploaded this onto Youtube; once my film was on Youtube I used the embed code to put it onto my blog.
I also used the digital camera and Premier Pro again during the evaluation to record and edit some audience reactions to my film.
I found that the technology was on the whole helpful during this project; it would have been very difficult to do it without all of the different software I used however when I uploaded my film to Youtube some of the title effects were lost, I tried several times to fix this problem but I couldn’t.
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