Describe the ways in which your project work was aided by your use of digital technology and how your ability to use digital technology developed over time.
What they mean is to cover both your AS year and A2 year. Include research and planning as well as construction in our answer, and do not forget to state what products you are talking about.
Digital technology has become a very important part of film making and the way it has advanced has allowed the three stages of research, planning and construction to be easier and more accessible.
By studying media studies with my own practical productions I have developed my skills using different digital technologies which has given me more creative decisions.
The first digital technology that I have developed my skills through is the video camera. This has been the first technology that allowed my skills to advance. This is because the camera held hours of footage that I had shot to give me several times to make sure each individual shot i was filming was as accurate and framed correctly to get the best film opening/ advertisements which I done in as and a2. The size of the camera was also very compacted and by using a stable tripod allowed me to get sleek tilt shots for example in my advert for sportswear. This shows the audience the whole outfit to give them a feel of the outfit in motion.
In the planning stage of my film opening in AS by going to similar locations and practicing the different shots using the digital camera allowed myself to get more familiar with using the zoom button to get an even speed and to keep on working on the pan and tilt movements to get them as precise as possible. After this still in the planning stage I edited these clips on premiere pro. This allowed me to get a feel of the site and to watch on web 2.0 on the well known site 'YouTube' to gain editing skills and short cuts that could increase my creativity for my film opening. Premiere pro was the main technology that I edited both my horror film opening and sportswear adverts on. From a lot of research from the web 2.0 I had gained the knowledge also of different technologies fro example 'Live type' which as a class we watched several you tube clips to know exactly how to create titles that would best fit for our genre which was horror for me.
As my production group all decided on a horror film opening as part of the construction we had filmed parts of the film opening in the dark. This meant that we had to research how to make sure the lighting on the digital camera was allowing the actors/actresses and the location to be visible. Without the research of the night vision button it wouldn't of gave us more control on the effects we wanted in our film opening.
From using the digital camera to researching on the web 2.0 and YouTube to gain more skills for the editing process allowed the technology sites premiere pro and live type to be much easier to use. These all aided my skills to be much better for my A2 work.
Editing in my opinion was the most enjoyable out of all the stages of filming this was because it allowed me to use technology that advanced my creative thinking. This is because by doing a level media allowed my teacher to introduce me to premiere pro. By using the technology premiere pro in both a level years I feel massively developed as it made me more of a flexible editor. One part of the editing that I found very challenging was the sound. The sound was produced from the digital technology the microphone. To make sure the sound was equal to the actors/actresses lip movements was very hard. However by focusing on each individual one and increasing/decreasing the pace and volume on premiere pro made this process easier. Furthermore by also applying an echo to the sound made the sound much more creepier to fit the genre of horror.
When critiquing my own work I would have to say that sound was a downfall in our film opening this is because of using the digital microphone for the first time without as much research into as the actual digital camera. However from my teachers help and online tutorials on the web 2.0 made this down fall not as unsuccessful as I thought it would be. From this experience in my first year when filming my sponsorship in the second year which needed sound I made sure that the sound was produced in a studio to avoid any distracted noises. Also from the first year I had already known the best way to dub the sound which made my sponsorship sound a lot easier to edit.
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