Audit of AS skills Digital Technology

Plenty of Digital Technology was used over the entire AS year for my Media Studies coursework. The preliminary tasked for example was filmed with a Canon Legria which was for me a good introduction in to filming and producing for both my group and myself. The editing software we first used consisted of Adobe After Effects which after a test run we decided not to use and opted for the far more user friendly Adobe Premiere Pro (Adobe CS6). I felt that some of the editing effects we utilised were extremely advanced in comparison to other groups who stuck to the basic shot reverse shot edits. Further Technology that I myself used stretched through Blogger, to iMovie, A Skype Interview with Michael Harrowes which I myself hosted.

As for the Pre Production technologies for the film I truly feel that we used a humongous amount of technologies that truly contributed to the end quality of our final piece. Foley was used to turn the sound quality of our production completely, changing poor quality interrupted sound in to crisp, clear vocals. The image below highlights how a Foley artist would replace poor quality sounds with high quality recordings which improve the audience experience hugely, we used a Foley artist to create car door sounds and the sound of a lock opening to release a secret draw filled with the assassins weapons.

In terms of blog work technologies, I chose to utilise such technologies as Prezi, Soundcloud, Youtube, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter. Technologies such as these enable young people to experiment and interact with the film industry; cameras are easily obtainable and operated by most and basic editing software can be purchased and determined without excessive difficulty. Projects such as these can give students valuable knowledge and understanding of the film industry and the requirements needed to create an effective production. This modern day access to making our own films is known by many as Web 2.0, the next generation if you like of interaction with the film industry. I feel that having the equipment and software that we have had available really has helped the whole group to create a truly fantastic and creative opening title sequence. I myself feel that experiencing these technologies really developed my skills and improved my directing dramatically.

 

 In terms of Post Production we felt that we ourselves could utilise Digital Technology in order to acquire audience feedback to be placed digitally on our blogs for multiple people to see at one time. We chose to shoot our group responses using the Canon Legria and used Adobe Premiere Pro (CS6) in order to compile all of the footage together. The audience feedback was then documented on YouTube, and can be see embedded below.