4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
CONSTRUCTION
Digital technology was particularly imperative to use during the construction stage, as the use of digital equipment was particularly high. We filmed “Shadow” using Sony HDV 1000 cameras with a Sony HDV 1000 tripod, to ensure a higher quality visual element, and to make certain that the shots were filmed smoothly, to make the film as realistic as possible; even the hand held shots were filmed with a certain precision so that the camera didn’t shake too much. We did this by filming the handheld scene slowly, so that the camera operator could walk as slowly as possible, in order to track the character gently. The speed was then increased through the editing process to the normal pace, to make the scene the accurate speed.
The editing process was created on an Apple Mac computer, and completed through the software Final Cut Express; here we were able to use fades, cuts and dissolves to create the film with excellent continuity. We transferred the scenes from the camera to the Apple Mac using a zoom recorder. This was a simple software to use, and was efficient in quickly converting the scenes onto the program Final Cut Express.
INVISIBILITYAs our invisibility effect was quite difficult to portray, our research from the internet came in very useful. We first of all used the garbage matt effect to successfully make the protagonist’s reflection disappear, with the character still visible in the frame, to give the effect of invisibility. In order to widen our creativity with the invisibility effect, we also decided to use a ripple dissolve effect on the protagonist, during the canteen scene, in order for the audience to view a range of ways in which the character is portrayed as invisible, ensuring the film isn’t repetitive with the special effects which we use.
Not only was the Sony HDV 1000 camera used to film our production, but it was also used during the audience feedback, to record the target audience’s responses. This came in useful, as it was an efficient way to capture, and combine the responses together, again cutting them together through the use of Final Cut Express.
This software provided us with the tools and ability to create a professional looking short film. The software was quite difficult to understand whilst trying to resurrect the invisibility effect, but any problems were overcome by seeking technical support on search engines such as Google and by watching YouTube videos.
RADIO TRAILER: In order to construct our radio trailer, we used a zoom recorder, to record our voices in a sounds proof room, in order for our voices to sound effective, particularly the whispers, and then uploaded the recordings onto the Mac computer, through the software garage band. At first this was difficult to use, as I have no previous experience using the program, but this problem was immediately overcome, through the use of research on the internet, again using the search engine Google.
POSTER: We created this though the software Photoshop, which is an extremely effective program to use, as it allowed us to be precise in the cuts and re-sizing of the photo. The contrast was easily increased, and we added text in various different fonts, with the certification which we had previously given, to ensure that the poster looked professional and realistic, and also make certain that it denoted the genre through the use of colour, image, and text.
This is the poster which I created using the programme photobucket:
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