Evaluation 6: Technology

During pre production, we had to research various films and plan how and where we were going to shoot our film. In this time we utilized the internet by researching films that were like ours to better help us in our creative endeavors. We also had to make sure the lighting in the locations we filmed would look good on our cameras, or at least good enough to fix in post production at a later state.

As for the actual production/shooting of our film, we used cameras which were provided to us by the college. We also used tripods to rest the cameras on in order to make the shots look stationary when needed and maintain a professional image. A lot of these shots were kept in the final product of the film and did have a professional looking quality to them. The cameras are not, however, the best cameras in the world which is why sometimes the quality of them can look a little bit rough when compared to high end professional cameras. This did work in our advantage though as the film is centered around a post apocalyptic Britain which is why a rough and grainy look is good for our film.

Pre production called for a lot of editing by me, mainly because I really like doing it, but the "a lot" part came from bad continuity messing up a lot of the takes we had. This called for a trip to Adobe Premier Pro, in which I can edit all the clips together top form a coherent narrative and add effects such as colour grading, change the sound, add music, titles and various other items. The overlay for the news report was created by hand by me in Adobe After Effects as I thought it would look nicer than a generic overlay, which it does. This would not have been possible in most other programs that I have at hand. Without these programs being available to anyone on most devices, this kind of quality would not be achievable.