This is the voice recorder we used for our evaluation task 3 and also our voice over in our film. I found the voice recorder very easy to use, as you press 'rec' to record and 'stop' to stop recording, this will automatically stay on the voice recorder until deleted. It was easy to connect the voice recorded to the Mac PC and to place the voice over onto our film within seconds. When using the voice recorder for our evaluation task 3, it was just easy and simple, we'd all individually speak our part, and connect it straight up with the mac, click and drag onto our film and it was done in a few clicks, therefore, while using the voice recorder there was no problems with it.
To film 'Love Triangle' we used a Panasonic HDC-SD80 Full HD camcorder. I felt the camcorder was easy and simple to use, you press the same button to start filming and to end filming and with a screen on the camera that flips out to ensure the camera shot is accurate and just what you wanted as you can see what your filming. When filming 'Love Triangle' there was no problem with the camcorder and when connecting it to the mac to upload the footage we found no problems either.
To film our footage for 'Love Triangle' a tripod was always used to ensure stable and steady footage when it came to uploading it. The tripod was used to ensure the camera was not shaking so it saved us time as we had to film it once with the tripod knowing it would be accurate and stable and not worrying about the shaky hands. The tripod was very useful and easy to use when it came to filming, with the stand on it being adjusted to higher or lower heights made filming anything easy as it was easily adjustable. At the start, we did have troubles connecting the camera to the tripod but I did learned how to connect it properly and safely, once that was learn there was no other problems as adjusting the height of the tripod was quick, easy and simple.The handle of the tripod was easy to use and you hold it and it twists the top of the tripod steadily and smoothly for the effect of panning and tracking characters.
We used an Apple Mac book to use final cut pro to edit our footage all together for produce our final of 'Love Triangle'. Our Mac gave us no problems and it didn't crash however, sometimes when it froze it was only a matter of seconds.
Final cut pro was used to edit our footage together. At first, it was hard to use as not knowing what all the tools did, where they all were, how to insert footage, add titles and transitions made it difficult to put the footage together effectively. However, the more time spent on final cut pro, I learn everything I needed to know and enjoyed editing 'Love Triangle' as I knew how and what I was doing. Therefore, once I had picked up everything on the programme I needed to know, I didn't have any other problems after that. Luckily when using final cut pro there were no problems when using it, all footage easily was added to time line along with the voice overs, music, titles and sound effects.
These computers, were used throughout to find the music for our film, these were also used to use the software Photoshop on them to design our title. With bits being done on different computers and different accounts was confusing at first, but once something was completed, a memory stick was used to transfer it onto the mac, where everything was put into one folder so nothing was lost. Once the problem of thinking we'll loose work or won't be able to access something if we need it because something wasn't done, it was transferred onto the mac all in one folder to keep everything not only just safe but together. The normal computers would sometimes crash, therefore, if producing something, it was saved often and when doing something on our blogs saving things was important and if it did crash give it time to refresh itself, so this was a problem sometimes.
Memory StickThis memory stick was linked directly to our mac, therefore no other groups could use this. This was the best way of organising it, as only our work was put onto the memory stick and only our group was using it therefore it was easily accessible. The memory stick was there to transfer music, title images, title designs, name designs and sound effects if found online. The memory stick was easy and simple to use to connect to either computer and was also useful for us to keep all our work in one place in a folder so nothing was lost. The memory stick was also there to use and was also successful with transferring data therefore, there was no problems with it.
Photoshop
Photoshop was used to design our production company logo 'Star Production' and also the title of our film. Photoshop was also used to complete evaluation task 1, of creating a collage of 9 specific shots of my film, Photoshop was used to put the images together to produce a collage which made it easier to talk about. Photoshop helped in evaluation task 7, where images were again made into a collage to make it easier to talk about, Photoshop enabled me to take two separate images, copy, paste and drag them both into a new page within Photoshop and save the images together. Sometimes Photoshop would crash while using it, therefore the lesson learn was to save regularly so if it did crash nothing was lost when working.
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