Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 6

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process pf constructing this product?

Hardware

As our Camera we used a Canon 700D with a standard lens and a 300-700 sigma lens. This camera recorded everything we did when it came down to the visual footage, it did the job really well.
We used a road video mic attachment to be able to achieve better audio quality rather than use the on camera mic which doesn't do the best of jobs at picking up high quality audio. In black park it was an open and exposed environment so we needed to use a dead cat to be able to prevent the wind from effecting our audio quality. Henry brought the dead cat along and we needed it vitally. The point of the rode video mic was that it was aimed towards the direction that we filmed in and it picked up a much more intense and high quality audio in that direction, it only picks up audio in that direction so the background noise was pretty non existent.


To record audio when it came to smaller and distinctive things such as footsteps or the voice of someone speaking, for example when Ollie (male being kidnapped) spoke towards the end of the trailer that we recorded by Kieran who used the apple ear pods, this was because they had a mic on them and they picked up the audio really well because it was so simple minimal.






This image here is an example of what our camera set up looked like.
We used other equipment such as tripods for still shot stabilisation, this was important because not every shot was moving, some were fixed and we needed the trip pod for this. We used a glide cam which was extremely important because it stabilises the footage, for example when the camera is moving and shaking the footage will be stable because the glide cam auto stabilises everything.

The lighting we used was a soft box this was used to easily correct the colour in the frame and made the colour better too. 3 lenses were used, we used a 80-55 mil lens this was a great lens because it gave us a fairly good range of aperture. Then the second lens we used was in black park and it was a zoom lens, this was obviously used for its zoom capability but it had a good depth of field, this was used alot on the shoot in black park. The third lens was a 50mil lens, this was used to shoot the dark shots in black park for the kidnapping scene.

Websites

We used a website called free sounds, this was really needed at times because it allowed us to download for free small sounds such as the sound of a drill or water drops anything in that variety was gained off of free sounds. This site was great because when we attempted to collect these sounds for ourselves we found it really hard to pick them up in good quality as to compared to free sounds it was so simple because all we did was search the sound we needed then downloaded it.
Although some sounds were recorded in black park with the rode video mic, we recorded mostly the ambient sounds with this mic.
Our main source of research was from youtube videos, we used other channels to create a broader understanding of the task in hand and we used youtube to learn more about certain angles and ways to improve our camera skills.
We used box office mojo helped us when it came to what certificate (rating) we wanted to create this film for, we chose 12A because stats show that 12A films are the most successful because it opens the variety of the audience to everybody in the public.
IMDb was also used to create further research for things like DVD cover research and in terms of who watches the movies and each specific age group or class of people.
We used obviously blogger as our main website to create the entire blog, we also used Prezi which is a website used to create slideshows. Also we used google docs just to create a few drafts and brainstorm ideas between the group.

The video below shows how to compensate exposure on the camera settings, I put this video in because in black park the lighting massively varied and we had to change the exposure of the lens to be able to make sure the shot wasn't too dark or too light. We liked to keep the aperture on the camera reasonably low because this made the depth of field better and we personally felt that it gave the shots a much more cinematic effect. The settings on the camera massively depended on the day because obviously we cant control the weather so we had to do the best as we could and we had to compensate at times.

The main reason why we shot behind the scenes footage is because it is good to be able to have so we can refer to it and see what we did well and see what we could've improved on when it comes the time to create a new trailer we might possibly do in the future.