Evaluation Part 4

A logical start to discussing the technologies used would be the camera we used. This year we used a professional high resolution Sony HD camera. This allowed us to develop our skills we developed last year much further as the shots were of much higher quality and we were able to film in lower lighting due to the cameras improved light capturing over the previous years’ small digital camera. The sound was also much better this time around with the cameras large microphone providing good sound quality. The sound was further improved in our film with the experimentional use of a zoom mic, this enabled us greater ability to alter the sound in our film and also allowed us to make a radio trailer with clear audio.

The Internet was a massive technological too used in the pre-production and postproduction of our film. I used the internet to do nearly all of my research on genre, audience, shots, conventions, age certificate and distribution of our film. We used the internet extensively to promote our film, using the social networking site Facebook to share our Film and to share our feedback questionnaire. We used YouTube as a place to upload our video with it being the most popular video hosting website on the planet.

For our script writing we used Celtx. This allowed us to create professional scripts with the correct layout, this meant that with everyone having identical scripts there was no confusion between

the group members.

To edit our film we used Final Cut Express, the same software we used last year to edit our AS film, however this year we used a lot more effects on our film. We added visual effects to our trip scene to properly portray the experience of drug use and the purgatory scene we turned the saturation way down making the shot appear in black and white to represent Alex’s death. We also played with the Audio in our film, adjusting Agnar’s voice to a much lower pitch to give the desired effect from the character.

For our film poster, we used Adobe Photoshop. This allowed us to create a very professional looking poster with the correct Steel Tongs Font, Age certificate logo.