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

What have you learnt about technologies from the

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Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Audience feedback

Audience Feedback was essential when creating my product, and it informed many of the decisions I made when creating it, the largest being whether to have the titles then the chase of the chase then titles, as I felt both ways worked but wanted to know which way had the most impact on the audience

Because I don't have Facebook myself, one of my friends posted a comment with a link to the video in order to gain audience feedback from people who were part of my target audience.

Post Production: The Edit

I used two programs for the majority of the editing work, these were Power Director and blender. 

I used power director as it is a simple but powerful program, and on eI also had available on my own pc, which made the process of editing and applying vfx a lot faster and simpler.

For the visual effects such as the laser blasts and titles I used a program called blender, it allowed me to combine 3d cgi elements with 2d footage, as well as having an in depth compositing system which I used to apply the colour grading and vignette to the entire film.

Production shoot

The production went very well, I managed to get the majority of the shots I wanted and I didn't run into any major technical problems during the shoot, as I had worked with the two actors before as well, there was vary little in the way of hold ups, as we all knew what our roles were and what was required. 

the only problem I had was when attempting to film a medium shot of the rod being pulled away from the main character, unfortunately I managed to record around the shots, instead of the shots themselves. in other words I had filmed us setting up for the shot, the gap in between the two takes, and then finishing the shot. but not the actual takes themselves. 

Fortunately I took an excess of shots, and got some angles which weren't in the shot-list in order to fill in for any problems, and I was able to fake the shots through the use of a green screen.

Giving George direction and standing in for him so he knew where to look for when he was doubled 

preparing for a take

the green-screen shot used to fill in the gap where I hadn't got the shot.

Planning: shotlist

This is the shot list I created for my film opening, It only included the Chase scene of the film as I knew the titles would be more abstract due to the emphasis during that sequence being on the titles. 

Planning: Location

I went on a rece around Ringwood looking for suitable locations to film my music video, I wanted areas which looked urban, this was difficult however due to the abundance of trees and foliage.

After wandering around all afternoon trying to find a suitable location, I was still unhappy with the locations I had found. None presented the futuristic, urban look I wanted to present.

Therefore I chose to ignore the rece shots and instead decided to film in a multi storey car park. I wasn't able to go and get location pictures for this however, so I chose a car park I'd been to before, this meant a storyboard was out of the question as I wasn't 100% sure how the car park was laid out, so instead I chose to write a shot-list.