Over the two years of this media course i have made significant improvements to my understanding and usage of digital technologies. This ranges from editing software such as adobe premiere pro to physical camera usage. For my AS coursework I created a film opening for a sports drama about an old man reflecting on his career as a footballer, this project was called Cohen.. In contrast, for my A2 coursework i created a fast paced pop music video which was a completely different experience in most aspects of the process from pre-production to post-production. The music video had narrative aspects of three young men (the band members) rebelling against there working lives. The band was called Avenue.
The first technology which i feel i made the most amount of improvements from was the editing software Adobe Premiere Pro. For my film opening the editing was extremely simplistic as the style was very slow paced therefore i used a small amount of cuts, the mise en scene was more important to the opening than the editing was. For example, the opening shots were of an elderly man walking through a park, we had close up shots of his footsteps cross cutting with long shots of him walking. There was a high contrast to this when creating my music video a year later. We used a lot more cuts to match the intensity of the film. We used thought beats through the chorus to match the music. This was an improvement on the film opening because we used a lot more cuts and more precised cuts through the use of thought beats.
When shooting Cohen we used a compact camera with the standard filming settings. This gave us average looking footage which wasn't improved by colour grading because of the lack of knowledge about colour grading. However, when making the Avenue music video we used a much better Nikon D3300 DSLR camera which allowed us to use manual video settings so we could set up the shot how we wanted with the amount of colour we wanted.We wanted a hypodermic syringe of brightness, happiness and the camera allowed us to increase the exposure and saturation to do this. This was especially helpful for our first shot which was outside with lots of green trees which were slightly dark using the standard settings of the camera but were really highlighted by the manual settings. When we got the footage onto the computer I could edit the colours of the footage by colour-grading in premiere pro.This was achieved by practising on our practice footage. This was an improvement because i used better camera settings and colour grading which i hadn't used before.
I documented the creation of our productions on blogs using blogger. I improved my use of blogger in the second year as i used more labels to make the navigation of my blog a lot more coherent. The blog i used in my first year was a lot more confusing due to the lack of labels, I also used the embed function a lot more frequently. I embedded Youtube video, Emaze presentations and Slideshare presentations a lot more in the second year. This made the blog a lot more user interactive which made the information presented on the blog a lot more user friendly and accessible.
My overall improvements related to digital technologies mainly consisted of editing techniques such as colour grading and more precise cutting. However,i also improved in my use of blog maintenance and the physical filming of my productions by using a better camera and by having a better understanding of manual settings.
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