Here I have taken some photos as to what I have used throughout the making of our film clip. Above I have used a microphone, we used the microphone to pick up particular parts of the dialogue within each of the conversations of the film. The microphone was great, as we could really hear the conversation above the background noise, by minimising the background noise we were able to have a realistic setting for our characters as well as having our audiences focus on the conversation before them. This also really added to the camera shots and both worked and complimented each other. We did have slight trouble with the microphone as sometimes we could not get the light to show when the microphone was on or off making it difficult to judge as to whether the sound was being picked up or not. On a few of the occasions while filming the party scene we really had some difficulties with making sure that the microphone was switched on, unfortunately the background noise was to severe that you could not hear the conversation in enough detail without being focused on the background noise. We therefore had to film the party scene 3 times. Another issue with the microphone was that when we plugged in the microphone to the camera, the microphone on the camera would not pick up sound. This meant that we really needed the microphone to work and pick up the key points of sound which we wanted in good enough quality that we could use within our film. On the whole the microphone was a key aspect in the technology that we have used.
Within this photo I am holding the camera that we used to film our movie. We used the camera to record the action within our film, this included a variety of the shots, movements and angles displayed within our film. The cameras that we used proved to be very reliable and record much of the action in fairly high quality, although not in the quality that we would have hoped for with our film. If we had used a more expensive camera i believe that we would have really been able to improve the quality of our work however the camera had limits that we worked with and were still able to produce a impressive amount of work form. The camera we used mainly for the picture and the microphone for the sound however on some of the camera movements were not a lot of dialogue was spoken or we did not want to amplify any particular sounds we used the camera's microphone. The microphone on the camera again was adequate enough to use, however there was a lot of humming coming from the camera that we had to edited out using music and our editing equipment the make sure that the humming did not detract from the picture.
The tripod proved to be a life saver within the filming part of our media coursework. The tripod we used to attach to the camera and give a really impressive movement of the camera as the tripod had the ability to hold the camera steady while being able to move the camera at the same time. This enabled us to do a lot of tracking shots and also pans of our characters and location. While also doing this the amount of smoothness and steady quality was so great, that we rarely had to re-take the shot.
On the computer we used many programs that enabled us to edit, customise and perfect our film. We used Adobe Premier as the main source of editing. The programmed proved to be very basic to use and self-explanatory which meant that our group was able to affectingly begin to edit our film without having to stop and figure out how to do something. We did have some problems with Adobe as sometime while trying to up-load the content that we had filmed from the camera to the programme it took a few attempts to follow through and took a great deal of time. The quality of the Software was rather good throughout the editing the film, although sometimes the equipment did not allow us to be as precise as we would have wanted to make our editing as Sharpe as it could have been. Also the software makes the film (when running) sometimes jitter and therefore disturb the viewing of the film. To combat this we uploaded our edited film onto windows media this was a vastly higher quality than adobe and was greatly easy to upload onto our YouTube account, able for viewing by others. We created a YouTube account to upload our testing of camera shots and movements, exercising and getting used to the equipment, our preliminary task and also our final film. The YouTube account proved to be a very valuable programme as it allowed others to easily view our film and receive comments on it, which came back pretty positive. Blogspot has also proved to be the most valuable programme that we have been able to access and upload our coursework onto. Blogspot has been a very easy piece of software and we are so amazed at how accessible it was and how presentable our coursework is.
By Hannah
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