Evaluation Section 3

While filming my media project I learnt a lot about the technologies that are involved in producing a film, one the biggest aspects of technology was that I learn about was how to use a video camera, it took me quite awhile to learn all the functions of the digital camera but once it did not take me long to master them all, the camera that we decided to use was a school film camera that used miniDV video tapes; the camera had many functions such as the aspect ratio that you filmed in and the quality of the captured video, one the main functions that I used was the zoom function.

As well as the camera features discussed above there were quite a few creative features that you could use on the camera, such as the ability to set the camera to film in black and white or monochrome rather than colour.

We did not use an external microphone as the camera had an inbuilt one, the sound quality was fairly good but you could hear the sound of the tape being recorded on to, so we made sure we turned down some of the captured media when it came to editing the project itself. If it was possible we would have probably used external microphone equipment to capture the engine sounds of the motorbike as they were not picked up by the inbuilt microphone very well.

As most of our media project was filmed outside we had no real need for artificial lighting as we made sure that we filmed at times of day would be suitable for the feel of are film, If our film had a bigger budget we would have probably decided to use artificial lighting.

Overall none of the equipment that we used was very close to industry standard gear, the camera we used had an inbuilt microphone and the quality of the film that was captured was not great, I think that our film cold have been improved if we used a better quality camera such as a high definition one.

To edit our film we used I movie HD which is the software that you find on Mac computers, when using the software I learn a lot about using different features in the software creatively. One of the main creative features that we used in IMovie HD was the ability to add transitions to join scenes together, we also used another creative feature in the software to turn the film from colour to black and white which gave the film the feel that we were looking for.

Overall the software we used helped our creative sides and gave us the desired result and product, the only barrier that we met when making the film was problems when upload the raw video that we had captured to the computer, fortunately I was able to source the problem and then correct it.