NEW TECHNOLOGIES

I've used a lot of new technologies over the course of this project.

One prime example of this would be the technoliges involved to create the soundtrack. I managed to produce it on software that I hadn't used before and then uploaded it to a site called soundcloud.
Soundcloud functions similarly to youtube, people can observe your work and choose to follow your progress if they like it. This is a good way to build up a musical following.

Music

 Click HERE to hear a demo I loaded to soundcloud

As we both worked on the sound track together we used a new technology to create the it. The program is called Riffworks. Unfortunately we did not have access to the full version which limited our use of the program as we were only given stock drum tracks and could only have a certain number of guitar parts.

Interface during the recording of the credit song.

This program is specifically made to record guitars plugged directly into the computer; so using a microphone was not an option. Instead, we utilised a handy piece of tech that Marcus had  in his possession. It's called a Line 6 Podfarm UX2 (Pictured below).

 

This recording box allowed us to completely cut out any recording feedback that you'd get with just using a normal microphone. This helped us reach the highest sound quality we could achieve.

 

This was the setup we used to record all the music for the film. It was laid out for maximum recording quality and it took us about four days to write, record, cut and edit everything into proper pieces.


Animation.

I was completely new to animation when we started the project. We had initially wanted to use it as part of the film, but we found it was to time consuming and would not have fit in well with our film so we stuck with live action.

The whole concept of animation came from my partner as he had done flash animation in the past. He used quick animated story boards to demonstrate how it could look and to flesh out part of our initial script.

We decided to go against this method of filming as the work would have been almost entirley exclusive as i would ahve only been able to lend my voice to the animation process. Also it was far to much work that would have required much more time than we had considering our group started out later than the others.

The animation did however prove useful in showing how we wanted to create our filming scenes.

These were some basic shots that were planned out using animated clips.

Shot can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERuXu-WMuf0

Shot two can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PgetYjXFUE

 

 

Editing.

We used the editing program Sony Vegas Pro 11 to edit our film together

This editing program is a lot more complex and in depth than iMovie which was what most people used. However it has a lot more features that allowed us to create a lot more effects and be more creative with our editing.

 

 

We were both fairly new to this editing program, but we decided to go ahead with it because we felt we could achieve more with a more complex program and also because iMovie had been causing us considerable problems with editing e.g. on several occasions the program kept crashing.