Evaluation Question 6

While working on our coursework production we have learnt a number of things about technology.

When making a flash animation its best to make it as simple as possible and add all the effects such as fading in the software you plan to export it to, also take a screenshot of the last frame as it may get lost during the exporting process.

When taking pictures its best to give the camera extra time to focus even when you think the image looks fine on screen as demonstrated by this picture.

When making an animation such as an ident and importing it into final cut pro its best to check the resolution quality beforehand or it may look more pixelated than the screen/image actually shows, this happened to our ident and lead to us remaking it.

Sometimes when the audio you want to use does not go in sync with the video its a good idea to speed up or slow it down but not too much as the clip may end up sound a lot different than it initially did.

Software such as Soundtrack Pro can provide lots of sound effects which I can use in my production without having to pay royalties and licensing costs which really helped us in the production.

Using the stage lights we are now able to eliminate shadows or create shadows where we want them to be, we also learnt that stage lights get very hot in a short amount of time and thus should be left alone for some time before being packed away.

We now know how to make appropriate title cards using the text tools provided in final cut pro which can be easily accessed by clicking on the A symbol under the canvas video player.

We also learnt how to make a movie title in Livetype however we did not use it in our final production instead we opted for just using the text tools in final cut pro.

We also learnt that footage can look much better on camera than it does on screen for example here we wanted to have the footage shake a bit to give it a point of view effect however it ended up shaking a lot more when we watched it on a proper sceen.