Evaluation of coursework movie: Part 3) Creative tools

I have personally learnt alot about technologies from the process of constructing this product. I learnt about the use of digital cameras, how they need to be on tripods to obtain a good steady shot. I also learnt about the use of panning to get an overall shot of your designated filming area. The main creative tool I learnt most about was the industry standard editing resource called 'ImovieHD' which was the main program we used to edit our clips together.

I learnt all about the optional transitions we could use to make the different clips mo

re fluent. The most useful transition we used was the 'wash in' and 'wash out' effect. This meant that the clips would wash in with a white fade and wash out with a white fade. When we used these, it shows a flashback of what happened before we see the dead body and how it happened.

In 'ImovieHD' we saw the different effects that we could use on the selected clips. The two effect that we used for our movie was the 'earthquake' effect and the 'sepia' effect. The earthquake effect was used as the point of view of looking onto the dead body itself. This effect gave it more of a personal feeling and made it the more eerie as you are not shown who is looking at the dead victim's body.

The Sepia effect made the flashback seem more realistic. This was because we 

didn't want to make the flashback look unoriginal in the same colour.  We wanted to make the flashback seem obvious that it really was a flashback. We also made the colour a bit darker than the original sepia colour.  

Digital technology enabled us to develop creatively as we could make it original to how we wanted to make the movie. The different effects and transitions also added to the mood and atmosphere. e.g. Having a black fade out could mean that something bad has happened to someone and is creating an unhappy atmosphere. However there was one technological problem that prevented our creative flow. This was the audio coming from the camera. We had the problem of wanting to put music over one of our clips whilst the characters in the clip were talking. What the problem was, was that the audio from the camera gave off a mildly loud buzz which, when mixed with the music, made it sound quite un- professional. What we had to do to solve this problem was turn down the audio on the selected clip and also turn down the music audio as well so that the dialogue in the clip could be heard.