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By Ronan Roux: Question 6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product?

The document discusses what the author learned about technologies from constructing a digital camera project. They learned how to use a digital camera and different shot types. For editing, they learned to use Pinnacle 19 studios software, watching tutorials to learn features like transitions. They discovered transitions could be used on titles and learned to use effects to alter color. Flashbacks in the opening were used to show how the victim was captured.

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By Ronan Roux: Question 6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product?

The document discusses what the author learned about technologies from constructing a digital camera project. They learned how to use a digital camera and different shot types. For editing, they learned to use Pinnacle 19 studios software, watching tutorials to learn features like transitions. They discovered transitions could be used on titles and learned to use effects to alter color. Flashbacks in the opening were used to show how the victim was captured.

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Question 6: What have you learnt

about technologies from the process


of constructing this product?

By Ronan Roux

Digital Camera
Firstly, we learned how to effectively used how to use a
digital camera, as this was the first time any of us used a
proper digital camera to this extent.
We used a variety of shot types in our production and
this was possible due to the capabilities of the camera.
We used close-ups, extreme close-ups, tracking shots,
mid shots, long shots, over the shoulder shots and some
POV shots.
In regards to camerawork, we learnt a great deal about
how to shoot effectively using the cameras strengths
avoiding meeting some of its weaknesses. For example,
the camera performed a lot better in areas of more light,
therefore we avoided filming closely in shadowed areas.

Editing
We also learnt much about editing and the editing software specifically that we used.
We learnt so much due to the fact that none of us had ever had any past experience
with editing such a thing as the production except for the knowledge of editing the
preliminary task, but this editing was done on a completely different editing software,
we had less time to edit therefore we only explored some of the most simple
features. We used Pinnacle 19 studios for editing.
As this technology was new to us we had to teach ourselves how to use it effectively,
how to operate it and navigate its interfaces and where to find all of the editing
features it offers.
We viewed a lot of tutorials online on YouTube, these tutorials involved someone
doing a voice over instructing the viewers how to do a certain task.
We learnt how to use transitions effectively and where the best place would be for it
to be used. After learning how to use it, it was just a method of trial and error to
become familiar with the use of them in general.
We also learnt that transitions can not only be used on video clips but can also be
inserting into titles as well. This was discovered when we had finished editing and we
wanted to create for an atmosphere with the titles, we were happy with the font of
these titles but we wondered if transitions could be used on titles, and after testing it
out we learn that it was achievable.
We chose to use the flicker out transition on some of the titles due to the fact that the
main footage we had edited contained mainly straight cuts with only few transitions
therefore adding transitions to the titles made the pace of editing seem a lot more
fluent and it was a lot more synchronous with our soundtrack.

Editing (continued)
We also discovered that this editing software
supplied a wide variety of effects to be used in video
clips. We had to search for a while as there was such
a variety but we wanted to add an effect that
drained some colour out of the shot but all colour so
it did not seem clich, we used this effect in the
flashback scenes just to separate colours slightly so
it was obvious that it was a flashback.
Throughout the opening, a pattern is easily
noticeable as we were very careful with what shot
types we used in different stages of the opening
such as trying to make sure that we kept the gradual
pace of the appearance of the flashback shots, the
amount of shots of the victim and the amount of
shots used to show the torture equipment.

The use of flashbacks

Our opening began with the victim waking up tied up, we then showed a bit of
the setting, then the revelation of the villain from behind, then there is the first
flashback with intercutting of a shot of the victims chest heavily breathing, then
the table of tool and weapons is slowly introduced to the audience with the
victim struggle being shown in between these shots, then the flashback scenes
are constantly seen in almost 3, 4, or 5 shots. Towards the end when the story of
the flashbacks has been told and there is no more to show the pace is
dramatically increased with the soundtrack becoming more intense and with this
we editing the shots to a great speed which gave us the best opportunity to add
in the fast montages of all of the tools and weapons.
The meaning of the flashbacks in our opening was to show the audience how
this victim character ended up tied up helplessly to a chair. With this we thought
we could create an interesting narrative to the opening because at the
beginning of the opening when the audience is only shown the victim waking up
in panic tied to a chair, immediately there is an enigma created, this being how
this character got into this position, why and who put him there. As the opening
progresses you discover more about the location this character is at and we
later discover who presumably put him there, and then there are many
implications of why the villain has kidnapped him and for what purpose.

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