What post production decisions did you make?
Thriller- Uploading footage onto the computer and sorting the video into chronological order in a basic rough cut. Created a soundtrack in GarageBand to incorporate into the video and make sure that it fits the genre. Merge the soundtrack with the video in Final Cut. After all this we added subtle transitions to make the video seem more slick and neat. Finally credits were added to legitimise the quality of the product in line with normal, conventional movie openings.
Children's Film- Uploading footage onto the computer into Final Cut Express and sorting the clips into order of narrative in a basic rough cut again. Again another soundtrack was created to enhance the movement of the narrative and to make it fit the genre of a Children's Film. Transitions and finishing touches were then added to make the video appear more professional in its approach.
Music Video- Uploading footage onto the computer into Final Cut Express and sorting into chronological order. Imported the actual song we had into Final Cut and went about syncing up our video footage to the song lyrics. Added animations and lyrics on screen as a visualisation of lyrics. Again small transitions were added such as small fades. When working on the ancillary products for this project, we used a picture from the photo that we had taken on the day of shooting the video and then placed in it into Photoshop and began editing it into the style of genre that the music entails. We used this method for both the Digipak and Magazine Advert however the two products gave of different amounts of information and varied in style.
What is the function of post production?
The idea of post production is to change/manipulate/enhance our product after it has been filmed to amplify the overall quality and create a more effective product relating to the type of genre characteristics.
Write a minimum of 250 words on how your post-production skills have developed over the two years. Give detailed examples.
Editing Skills- Skills that were introduced two years ago in using Final Cut Express have developed. The way in which we now use the simple and more advanced tools are now intuitive. For example at the beginning of the course when we were doing the Children's Film, the basic tools that were introduced to use were easily forgotten as we were not use to the programme and the techniques required. Skills such as the speeding of the video weren't really used in the early stages of the course due to the fact that we did not need to use it until we started doing the Music Video project. This is were we all learnt how to control the speed of clips and to efficently sync music lyrics on a song, to video.
Soundtrack Creation- During the Children's Film project, our soundtracks were very basic as we were new to the software, however as are research skills develops, we were able to identify more precise and detailed characteristics of the genre and thus make the overall soundtrack more in keeping with the genre. With our thriller project, a different approach was needed to the soundtrack as the genre is a complete contrast to the last project of that of a Children's Film. The basic skills that we acquired in the previous project were used again in the Thriller, but a small adjustment of the genre type of music we were creating. We aimed to create tension and a sense of the unknown,
Photoshop Work- Already having Photoshop experience before the production of our media products, many skills and functions were easily appliable to the elements required to help enhance the ancillary products of the Music Video project. Being able to edit and image to include black and white, with a small piece of colour was something that I was already experienced with, so when we decided to do it in our magazine ad, I knew it would look good and fit perfectly as a whole package.
Write 500 words in response "To what extent have digital technologies help develop your research and planning skills during your media A Level".
Basically, were awesome. Always have been, always will. Digital technologies has just made us look even more awesome.
To a great extent digital technologies have developed our research and planning skills throughout our media projects. Using the internet was a major source for research, with the use of Youtube it was easy to see other band's music videos in the genre and therefore we could incorporate some of the conventions seen in these videos into our own video. The internet enabled us to gain an increased understanding as to how music video's reach their audiences, and how they can be promoted and shared through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Being able to use the internet to research and plan has, over the last 2 years, been paramount in helping us find out about other projects. Having the ability to look at other students work over Blogger was a great way of being able to generate idea's and planning out how we could go about making our on projects. Being able to read feedback on our video's made re-thinking or re-doing a certain aspect of our video, which helped create a better overall product. Using Blogger to lay out the whole of one project added a sense of structure to the projects and gave us direction when we were lost on something to do.
Another way digital technologies have been able to expand our ability to plan and research during the whole 2 years is through the Preliminary Tasks that we had completed prior to our major projects. The first Preliminary Task was at the very start of the year, which gave us hands on time with some of the equipment and technologies that we would come accustomed to. After been giving the task to film a conversation, we set about familiarising ourselves with the equipment such as the Camera and Tripod. Before this Task, I had had no real experience with this sort of equipment, so everything was brand new to me. Now during the latest project of the Music Video, I can say that I was completely comfortable operating and being in front of the camera. This has then in turn made me confident in being able to plan more advanced and different filming techniques.
Thriller- Uploading footage onto the computer and sorting the video into chronological order in a basic rough cut. Created a soundtrack in GarageBand to incorporate into the video and make sure that it fits the genre. Merge the soundtrack with the video in Final Cut. After all this we added subtle transitions to make the video seem more slick and neat. Finally credits were added to legitimise the quality of the product in line with normal, conventional movie openings.
Children's Film- Uploading footage onto the computer into Final Cut Express and sorting the clips into order of narrative in a basic rough cut again. Again another soundtrack was created to enhance the movement of the narrative and to make it fit the genre of a Children's Film. Transitions and finishing touches were then added to make the video appear more professional in its approach.
Music Video- Uploading footage onto the computer into Final Cut Express and sorting into chronological order. Imported the actual song we had into Final Cut and went about syncing up our video footage to the song lyrics. Added animations and lyrics on screen as a visualisation of lyrics. Again small transitions were added such as small fades. When working on the ancillary products for this project, we used a picture from the photo that we had taken on the day of shooting the video and then placed in it into Photoshop and began editing it into the style of genre that the music entails. We used this method for both the Digipak and Magazine Advert however the two products gave of different amounts of information and varied in style.
What is the function of post production?
The idea of post production is to change/manipulate/enhance our product after it has been filmed to amplify the overall quality and create a more effective product relating to the type of genre characteristics.
Write a minimum of 250 words on how your post-production skills have developed over the two years. Give detailed examples.
Editing Skills- Skills that were introduced two years ago in using Final Cut Express have developed. The way in which we now use the simple and more advanced tools are now intuitive. For example at the beginning of the course when we were doing the Children's Film, the basic tools that were introduced to use were easily forgotten as we were not use to the programme and the techniques required. Skills such as the speeding of the video weren't really used in the early stages of the course due to the fact that we did not need to use it until we started doing the Music Video project. This is were we all learnt how to control the speed of clips and to efficently sync music lyrics on a song, to video.
Soundtrack Creation- During the Children's Film project, our soundtracks were very basic as we were new to the software, however as are research skills develops, we were able to identify more precise and detailed characteristics of the genre and thus make the overall soundtrack more in keeping with the genre. With our thriller project, a different approach was needed to the soundtrack as the genre is a complete contrast to the last project of that of a Children's Film. The basic skills that we acquired in the previous project were used again in the Thriller, but a small adjustment of the genre type of music we were creating. We aimed to create tension and a sense of the unknown,
Photoshop Work- Already having Photoshop experience before the production of our media products, many skills and functions were easily appliable to the elements required to help enhance the ancillary products of the Music Video project. Being able to edit and image to include black and white, with a small piece of colour was something that I was already experienced with, so when we decided to do it in our magazine ad, I knew it would look good and fit perfectly as a whole package.
Write 500 words in response "To what extent have digital technologies help develop your research and planning skills during your media A Level".
Basically, were awesome. Always have been, always will. Digital technologies has just made us look even more awesome.
To a great extent digital technologies have developed our research and planning skills throughout our media projects. Using the internet was a major source for research, with the use of Youtube it was easy to see other band's music videos in the genre and therefore we could incorporate some of the conventions seen in these videos into our own video. The internet enabled us to gain an increased understanding as to how music video's reach their audiences, and how they can be promoted and shared through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Being able to use the internet to research and plan has, over the last 2 years, been paramount in helping us find out about other projects. Having the ability to look at other students work over Blogger was a great way of being able to generate idea's and planning out how we could go about making our on projects. Being able to read feedback on our video's made re-thinking or re-doing a certain aspect of our video, which helped create a better overall product. Using Blogger to lay out the whole of one project added a sense of structure to the projects and gave us direction when we were lost on something to do.
Another way digital technologies have been able to expand our ability to plan and research during the whole 2 years is through the Preliminary Tasks that we had completed prior to our major projects. The first Preliminary Task was at the very start of the year, which gave us hands on time with some of the equipment and technologies that we would come accustomed to. After been giving the task to film a conversation, we set about familiarising ourselves with the equipment such as the Camera and Tripod. Before this Task, I had had no real experience with this sort of equipment, so everything was brand new to me. Now during the latest project of the Music Video, I can say that I was completely comfortable operating and being in front of the camera. This has then in turn made me confident in being able to plan more advanced and different filming techniques.
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