Evaluation Question 6

6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product

From our film opening we have learned how to use various software such as after effects and adobe premiere. Before creating our film opening we had a little experience in some of these software’s because we had to use them to make our preliminary tasks. However we had only scratch the surface of what we could create using these software’s at that time.

We used after effects for the main use of motion tracking because we wanted the titles to be a part of the film opening so the audience could be immersed with the story and not be distracted by the titles as much as if they were just put on and floating around. We didn’t use motion tracking just for the use of titles we used it to create a motionless shadow that would keep appearing closer and closer to our main character to give the impression that the shadow is following him we had it appear on a climb frame and a few fences. To show he notices the shadow we chose the main character to increase speed every time he saw it so it makes the shadow seem real. One problem we had with the use of motion tracking is that we couldn’t get the titles to stick to a wall or flat surface if the main character walked passed it because then the track would follow him. To try and cover this up we had to edit the titles so that it would fade away and become invisible when the main character walked passed it. Even though this wasn’t our plan at the start we found that it gave a good suspenseful effect. We used adjustment layer’s to create an overlay of black and white with a grainy effect to the POV shots to give the idea that he is in his own world and he see things differently. After we made our motion tracked videos we exported them so we could put them together in adobe premiere

 The second and main programme we used was adobe premiere which was the one we were most familiar with because we had to use it to put together our preliminary task. We imported the videos we made in after effects and put them in order from start to finish. After putting it together we found that we had film to much because the whole opening was six and a half minutes. We used the programme to cut the shot down or by taking them out completely. By the end of the cutting down we had a 2 and a half minutes video. Another purpose the programme had been to add in the music and sound effects. The main music and sound effects we used was royalty free so we didn’t have to worry about copyright. We used the sound effect of a dog barking, a book/paper dropping, heavy breathing, whispers and a dog whistle to give the feeling of immersion and suspense with the opening. After putting all of the videos and additional sound together we exported it and put It on youtube.