Group 10 - AS Production

Use of Adobe Premiere

We used Premiere extensively to edit together and capture our footage. It was also our primary tool for exporting the footage.
There were a few technical hitches, in that some of the footage presented an orange screen with only the sound playing at one stage.
As a result, we lost a day of editing, but it proved to be no great hinderance to the end result.
The colour editing qualities of premiere have also proved useful and easy to handle, and have helped us to produce the best image possible.
Personally, I have enjoyed the ergonomic feel of using premiere for our project. It has been far easier and faster than I expected it would be to compile the footage into our final piece.

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Use of Adobe Creative Studio 3

We created a publicity poster for The Rushes using one of our photos.
I was able to edit the photo to mirror the left hand side of Ali's head in order to keep equal amounts of TV on either side of his face.
I then changed his shoulder and the height of his right ear in order to make it look more natural and less like it had been mirrored.

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Use of Steinberg Cubase 5

I have also used Cubase to compile the original unused soundtrack and to edit the Doctor Who soundtrack we ended up using.
I used a microphone and mixing desk setup I have at home to record sounds of screams, sharpened knives and whispers, and implemented them into the mix at intervals.
I also heavily edited some sections of the track, including shortening the section played over the closeup sequence, and implemented some synth drumbeats in order to keep the track moving during the transition.
At the end, I faded the track out in order to make it finish in time to the end of our video. I then faded into a synth string chorus I created with a buildup of whispers to be played over the title.

All of this was achieved in Cubase, and took around two days to complete.

Use of the blog

The blog has undoubtedly been the biggest planning asset to our group, and we have learned to use it accordingly.

It has allowed us to collaborate on information that we may not have otherwise been as able to convey easily.
We have customised the blog aesthetically to reflect our project's nature - we used one of our images taken at the scout hut for the background, and I created a banner containing our names and group number on Adobe CS3.
The system of presentation has also been aided by the blog, as it allows us to have an interconnection between our work at school and our work at home.
This has been useful for periods like the snow days in November, as without it we would not have been able to continue with our work.

Use of Prezi

We have used prezi on multiple occasions to present a large amount of information to the class, as this is something that it is particularly good at doing interestingly and aesthetically. The option to include media like youtube videos and pictures has also been useful.

Use of Youtube

We made use of Youtube to present both our rough cut from Wilderness Woods, and our final piece. It has allowed us to broadcast our work to the wider public and gain feedback. For this reason, it has been a useful and vital addition to our array of technologies.

Use of SurveyMonkey

We used SurveyMonkey to publish a questionnaire, which was subsequently answered by about forty-five people, and provided us with a substantial amount of audience research.

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Blog Index - By Section

Evaluation - Indexed Directory

Group Evaluation: 7) Progress from preliminary task

Monday, 25 April 2011

AH Evaluation: 6) Use of Technology

Saturday, 23 April 2011

CJ Evaluation: 6) Use of Technology

Monday, 18 April 2011

BW Evaluation 6) Use Of Technology

Group Evaluation: 4 & 5) Who Would be the Audience for Your Media Product?