Before starting Media, I was unaware of how to edit and use Adobe Premier Elements however, I taught myself how to use it and picked it up pretty quickly and now understand how to use it fully. Since starting media I have learnt basic skills on how to use the film cameras. I've learnt new angles and learnt how to be patient when it comes to filming.
Camera angles can make or break a film, especially films of the thriller genre, I have definitely learnt the importance of how using various camera angles can make a film more captivating to watch.Different camera angles can connote different emotions.
When editing we had to learn certain editing techniques, like changing the narrative structure. It took a while to get the clips cut and ordered so that it made sense as well as adding the effect, dipping to black, we had to get it precisely in between the two shots that we wanted it to fade from and into the next, without it looking bad.
During filming our thriller we found that lighting was a big issue. We wanted to film in the early
evening but because it was winter there were not enough hours in the day. As well as lighting issues we had problems with getting all our actors together at the same time and had to change the main actress because it was very time consuming. When editing we had to lighten a few of our shots and an effect that sharpened the image as well as brightening, because the shots were not bright enough. The use of playback on the digital camera helped us review what we had just filmed.
This aspect of digital cameras was helpful when we were shooting in the twilight because we were able to check if the footage was readable, for instance we were filming in the night on the bridge and we couldn’t Mandy after filming it- and it was not clear whom we were filming- so we changed the shot and got Mandy to stand so there was a light from the pavement glaring onto Mandy.
When we eventually came to film we learnt a lot, I learnt that you had to be very patient, not all the shots that we had decided to use worked, so we had to do the same shot in several different angles to give us a variety to choose from when editing. The hardest part of filming was when it came to using the camera by hand held instead of the tripod. It took quite a bit of practice to get steady shots when filming hand held.
A rule that we did not want to break was the 180 degree rule. It was important to us because we had already done a small continuity task on the 180 degree rule, which taught us how not to break it and showed us how vital it was to maintain a decent thriller. When editing we had to add titles, I learnt how to do this from other members in the class who helped me and taught me how to do it.
Other technologies that I have learnt to use is my blog. Before starting media I had never used a blog before and was unaware of how to use it. However I did pick it up quickly, I like the simplicity of the website and found this easy to pick up. Blogging allowed us to store work and come back to edit it when we liked also receiving feedback from our media teachers on how to improve. Other technologies helped us construct our media product, such as, YouTube and IMDB, these websites helped us construct our coursework. Without YouTube I would not have been able to analyse clips from thriller films, that helped influence our thriller. IMDB (Internet Movie Database) also helped our coursework, it contained all the thriller films we were studying as well as statistics about audiences, ratings and age groups- I used YouTube and IMBD for researching all thriller films.
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