Look back at the beginning of the project, what do you feel you have learned since then?
Over the course of tehis project i have learned a variety of new skills regarding film making and production. Being an amateur film maker at the beginning of the year, I had a lot of new skills to learn in order to progress with our film.
One of the first new skills I needed to learn about was proper camera work and lighting. Here you can see us filming one of our very first shots for the film titles.
I very quickly picked up on camerawork and the use of dollies and tripods to create interesting angles and shots and learned about how to create atmosphere by simply positioning the camera in various ways. Camerwork is probably one of the most important things I learned about filming this year as it will carry over into my A2 production and it gives me more in depth knowledge of how to film scenes.
Lighting was another new thing that I needed to learn about. This would always come with camerawork so whenever I was learning about the camera, I was pretty much always learning about lighintg aswell. Here you can see us using a large spotlight to create the effect of light coming down on the guitar.
I learned a lot about lighting and how some of the most subtle changes can be a significant improvement to a scene, e.g. using a light to create brightness in one area, can create an atmosphere of darkness in another and really emphasise the mood of the film
Another thing I learned about was music creation and production when my and my partner decided to write and record our own music for the film. We used a program called Riffworks, which allowed us to create and mix guitar tracks. Writing the music for our film was a big part of our project as our film is created around music, so we were dtermined to write something ourselves because we knew exactly what would fit with the film. Riffworks was an integral part of our production and learning about how to use it not only taught me music production skills but also better songwriting skills.
The final things I learned about were production tools and programs, which I previously had little to no experience with. I primarily used the editing tools in iMovie, but I also used adobe after effect which I had never used before. This was the hardest thing I had to learn about as these editing programs are very precise and take a lot of practice to be able to use them well. We also had several technical issues when the programs would shut down unexpectedly, setting us back quite far and this happened on more than one occasion so we learned to save our files very regularly.
Although I by no means mastered the editors I did learn the basics and since I was not the one whose primary role it was to edit, I was able to do some smaller bits of editing without fear of ruining any footage.
Here you can see the two of us in the editing phase of production.
I was very pleased with how the project turned out and even though a lot of problems were encountered during the editing stage, we were able to overcome them and get the film finished.
A lot of the evaluatio technologies were new to me as well. Things like prezi, pinterest, soundcloud were all new to me, but these were quite easy things to learn about and I quickly became quite good at using them.
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