Hello everyone! Welcome to the last CCR prep post for all the questions! I'm so nervous yet so ready for this portfolio project to be wrapped up. I'm simultaneously filming my CCR and will have a post production post about editing before we wrap everything before my due date! It's a good thing I planned for a buffer week incase of issues because timing is really on my side today. Like I said in my last blog post my CCR for the second set of question (3 and 4) isn't finalized due to my ideas dying out on me last minute.
The 4th question I will be answering will be:
- How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?
Hardware
In terms of hardware for this project, I used different cameras from the company Canon which was my digital camera and a professional camera someone had lended me. This digital camera was very essential in getting that grainy texture in my film opening. I also used my Iphone 11 pro to film the scenes in the beginning but re did them when I had the idea of using a different camera and I would have it as a backup in case the SD Card got corrupted. I'd also use a SD Card converter for me to put these videos in my computer which I used to edit.
Now, I also had to use a different method to include the red lighting in my film which was not colored gels like I saw some people use in YouTube tutorials. I had top put red sharpie on tape and cover a phone flashlight in order to give off the effect of red lighting in the room which I thought turned out really great.
Software
When using software throughout my production and planning I utilized Adobe Premiere for editing the actual film opening. I did this because I have more experience from the beginning of this school year using Adobe in previous projects. I got to learn how to use Adobe coloring effects, transitions, and use keyframes in order to edit my title sequences on the screen. Moreover, I also used Canva for my planning process such as creating mood-boards for the characters and get a better idea of their character development. I also used Pixibay and Bensound for free copyright audios in order to make it easier for myself when editing so I abide to copyright laws. With this, I also used word documents in order to make my screenplays and figure out what fonts and colors I could use for my title sequences. This helped me know exactly what I wanted to say during any dialogue sequences I was going to have until I cut it out.
There was times I had to search up YouTube tutorials when I didn't know how to edit something or figure out how to sound overlay and it was a very nice tool for me to use during editing. I searched up how to do horror movie lighting on a budget as well as some popular camera shots and composition to have in my film opening in order to have that same horror movie feeling that I was going for. This helped my project become authentic and professional in the longrun.