Throughout the project we used a variety of different tools and equipment to help us create and complete our media project. When we started we needed a platform to post updates and keep people up to date with out project and found that Blogger (which you should be reading this on) was the best tool for the job. Blogger was easy to use for us and easy for the reader to view our blog and see what we did on different periods as it is chronologically ordered and it showed our progress really well.
Another piece and most useful equipment was our camera, we used a cannon 550D and 600D to record the films we created. We used two different cameras as the 600D has an articulated monitor, which allowed us to create the footstep shots (which we didn't use) by turning the camera upside down and then flip the screen so we could see what was happening on screen, The footage would be flipped in post production.
To put all our films together we a couple of different of programs. The main program we used was Premiere Pro CS5.5 to cut and put together all of the clips and to render out all of the finished films. We did however try and make the project with Final Cut Pro, this didn't go well, Our first attempt ended up being lost as moving it between home and school. Luckily we didn't have much done and went and did it again on Final Cut. This Was a bad idea. When we stopped before Christmas we saved out work on a number of different devices to make sure we didn't lose any work, this wasn't the case, our attempt failed when we didn't save the clips for the project onto the same folder and then this corrupted the Final cut file. After that we decided to use Premiere Pro, this was an easy program to use and found moving everything into the right place was easy, we didn't have any problems with this program! For some of the shots with Oscar playing the guitar we decided to use a green as the background so that we can do more effects and change the background to fit the mood of song. To do this we used Adobe After Effects to change the green screen. We didn't have a clue on how to do this so we spent a couple hours messing around with it and also watching lost of Video Co-pilot videos.
For the evaluation we wanted to use a few different media presenting platforms to show off the skills we have learnt over the last couple of years doing media studies. We made a Prezi as we like how it differed from the standard Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows because Prezi is more artistic and can have some fun effects instead of being all serious and more to the point with PowerPoint. We also used the cameras to produce an audience feedback video and also to answer a couple of the questions. By us speaking to the camera we wanted the audience to feel like we are talking to them like an interview.
Media Technologies has played a massive part in our project and without them we wouldn't of been able to create the work we have. Over the year we have used and learnt how to use more programs such as Final Cut and got more of an in-depth knowledge of how to use programs that are not regular available to use such as Premiere pro, aftereffect and also Photoshop.
To put all our films together we a couple of different of programs. The main program we used was Premiere Pro CS5.5 to cut and put together all of the clips and to render out all of the finished films. We did however try and make the project with Final Cut Pro, this didn't go well, Our first attempt ended up being lost as moving it between home and school. Luckily we didn't have much done and went and did it again on Final Cut. This Was a bad idea. When we stopped before Christmas we saved out work on a number of different devices to make sure we didn't lose any work, this wasn't the case, our attempt failed when we didn't save the clips for the project onto the same folder and then this corrupted the Final cut file. After that we decided to use Premiere Pro, this was an easy program to use and found moving everything into the right place was easy, we didn't have any problems with this program! For some of the shots with Oscar playing the guitar we decided to use a green as the background so that we can do more effects and change the background to fit the mood of song. To do this we used Adobe After Effects to change the green screen. We didn't have a clue on how to do this so we spent a couple hours messing around with it and also watching lost of Video Co-pilot videos.
For the evaluation we wanted to use a few different media presenting platforms to show off the skills we have learnt over the last couple of years doing media studies. We made a Prezi as we like how it differed from the standard Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows because Prezi is more artistic and can have some fun effects instead of being all serious and more to the point with PowerPoint. We also used the cameras to produce an audience feedback video and also to answer a couple of the questions. By us speaking to the camera we wanted the audience to feel like we are talking to them like an interview.
Media Technologies has played a massive part in our project and without them we wouldn't of been able to create the work we have. Over the year we have used and learnt how to use more programs such as Final Cut and got more of an in-depth knowledge of how to use programs that are not regular available to use such as Premiere pro, aftereffect and also Photoshop.
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