Question 6 - WHAT HAVE I LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING MY FILM SEQUENCE?

The learning process to making the film and not really knowing what to do has been the most enjoyable part because working as a group you find all these new ways to better your film and from that you can tweak it into what you want. The importance of how close you are to show the emotion on our protagonists face was key and also tracking him with the right amount of body showing to get the perfect body actions. Unless your doing a tracking shot you need to keep the camera still to let their body do the acting to shuffling the camera around to show heavy breathing or anxiousness. Final cut was simple to use and in the end we got what we thought was the right effects for our film to set the mood. Fade in/out between credits and shot at the beginning to show how calm the mood was and how everything effortlessly went into place, but then we put very small clips close together to create a fast paced almost heart beat like mood. Speeding clips up and speeding some down to get the right amount of time in each clip and also to slow or speed the film up. Colour correction to sort out some of the lighting because of our setting, the hand against the window we darkened everything apart from the natural light coming through the window to make the hand really stand out. Before this production i had used final cut in my film studies production where we learnt the basics and also started experimenting a lot more with different transitions and colour edits as well as learning about the power of black and white in a film. Funny games in the beginning where the song changes to a heavy rock song and they don’t even notice as they’ve been so busy listening to opera songs, this caught the audiences attention as it’s something they wouldn’t have expected to happen so early into the film. As i had already used soundtrack pro quite a lot i left the other two in my group to experiment to get the perfect sounds for our soundtrack and they mixed strings with loud drums and during some newspaper articles you would hear static perfectly in time with the clips so overall that worked fine. Motion was a bit new for me as i had only briefly used it in my other film so to do something completely different with newspaper articles was a challenge and it took at least one or two lessons to completely finish all articles in time with the soundtrack. We had other credits that we were going to use with smoke behind the letters while it was shaking but in the end we decided against it as it didn’t quite match what we had intended.