Audit of AS Skills - Part 1 - Digital Technology

Audit of AS Skills - Digital Technology

During the process of working on the AS media task (preliminary task and the final opening sequence), myself and my group used various types of digital technology in order to produce a final product.

Pre Production:

  

During the filming of the Preliminary task, we used a Canon Legria, which is a high quality HD camcorder. This gave myself and the rest of my group a basic understanding of how a video camera works, which will help us in the opening title sequence filming. The Canon Legria uses an internal microphone, which unfortunately picks up background noise.

For editing, my group used professional softwares such as Final Cut Pro X and Adobe After Effects. As a group we all had to learn how to use them as this was our first time creating a film on them, but having access to these softwares greatly benefitted our final Preliminary Task.

Canon Legria

 Production:



In the opening title sequence we used a different more advanced camera, the Canon 700D, which is a DSLR camera shooting in better quality than the previous camcorder and includes different more advanced features that were not achievable with the Canon Legria, so we learnt how to use the 700D effectively to capture our final opening title sequence. 

Canon 700D

Post Production:

During the post production process we over dubbed the audio, as the microphone we used in filming picked up a lot of background noise. We rerecorded our spoken parts in a studio using an apple mac's Garageband software and a condenser microphone, giving a clearer sound without any unnecessary distracting background noise.

We used Final Cut Pro X and Adobe After Effects as we did in the preliminary task, the result of using these two programs was that our final product looked very professional as we were able to apply cuts, titles and visual effects to the film.