Evaluation Q6: What have you learnt about technolgies from the process of constructing this product?

In order to construct our film opening we had to use a software that would help us edit our opening and make it look like an film opening. The software we as a group and individually used for the first time was Adobe Premiere Pro. A editing software that is used at an advanced level to edit.

We used Adobe Premiere Pro for the first time when we edited our preliminary at an basic level to see if we can put clips together flawlessly and see if the footage after exported works as one clip without any visible efforts of editing shown even though it has been edited. By the time we got to editing our film opening we had to add conventions of an film opening to our opening such as titles and film logo's. One being our film logo the other an existing and established film company. This software is was used to put the whole film sequence together. In order to prepare we had to view certain tutorials teaching us how to add film titles etc.
Due to us not having this software at home we had to download free trails but due to a limited time available with the free trails, we were forced to evaluate most our work in school putting us at a disadvantage when coming to our time management. Due to our film already being one sequence we only had to put in the conventions of a film opening such as titles and film logo's to make it look like a film opening. Us not having to add any special effects but simple things helped us edit a bit better. However we did have to edit our logo's and our opening them bring them together as two separate clips as we found putting them all together at once did not work.

Our skills with the software has developed over the course of our making of our film. As a group we have learned to understand the use of different tools in the software and are much more confident with editing then we were at the start of the course. We used tools such as the Razor Tool and and Rate Stretch Tool. Our creative control was limited due to the lack of knowledge of using the software itself. Due to our film opening was one continuous sequence our editing was not as complicated allowing us to shoot around for a minute continuously without having to worry about separate shots. Due to our lack of knowledge on how to use the software to it's full potential we struggled with a few things. Such as adding the titles and logo's to our film opening which have to treated differently to the film opening. However we managed to put everything together.

That was the only software we used during our construction helping us understand the importance of editing and how it works on a professional level.

Posted by Bansari Raval