Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have personally learned a great deal of the technological process during the making of our title sequence, this is because although i have previously made films and videos this was te first time i have attempted anything like this. As our aim was to create an animatic title sequence the processes we had to go through and use were very different to those you would go through in filming an ordinary sequence. Our first variation was that all our images were captured using photographic cameras, using their multishot settings to generate continuity within the actions happeneing. When filming a 2 minute sequence it is common knowledge to film much much more than you need and re-record shots you have created, we also done this taking a large sum of 7000 photographs and repeated each sequence at least twice so we were certain that we would have enough to make our sequence.

For the editing, we had to do a sort of double edit, as we wanted to create the look that oour images were drawn out, as we were inspired by the title sequence of 'Juno' where a sketch effect had been used. We spent much time searching through different programs in attempt to find a way in which we could mass convert our 7000 photos with the sketch effect. This proved difficult as we were having trouble with the softwear and computers, but in the end we had worked out how to convert in bulk on Adobe Photoshop which pleased us so. This also gave me the chance to experiment with photoshop, trying out the different effects and tools that it had and i believe that i could comfortably use photoshop again with another project.

Once we had all our images converted we then had to piece them together to create our motion picture. For this we used the 'Imovie' editing program, although i would have prefered to used 'final cut pro' as i thought i would achieve a better quality of edit and cut to the sequence, but i was proven wrong as i believe we achieved just as well a finish by using 'Imovie'. i have never used either 'Imovie' or 'Final Cut Pro' but after using 'Imovie' i would say im comfortable with the program and that i could quite comfortably use it again to edit projects in the future.