Evaluation activity 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Adobe Premiere Elements 10
This is the software where we edited our footage. This was quite hard to start off with because we didn't know our way around the software meaning that editing our film took a while. We found that once we got used to it, editing became a lot easier as we started to become quicker and more confident in cutting certain parts and also adding in music. As we both had never used an editing software, we were both unsure of how this was going to go, but to our surprise the outcome turned out to be good. We do have a few jump cuts in the film due to not fully understanding how to move clips over. We found that lowering the volume was difficult and also making sure that the dialogue could still be heard over background noise. This did not really work because in our film, sound is probably the biggest issue which we faced. Once we found out how to lower volume and fade in music to make it seem more romantic, we found that it was easier to edit our film. We also had to apply different transitions to the film where we made the film look more theatrical. An example of this would be in our titles by using additive dissolve. We also had to use a fade to black shot as this helped to make it seem more like an opening rather than a trailer.

Photoshop

We used photoshop to create the black backgrounds for our titles. We found that this would be the easiest software to use for this particular task because we just had to select the paint bucket and the colour black and apply it to the background. We then saved this photo so we could add the titles in when we were in Adobe Premiere Elements 10. We also used photoshop to create the main titles 'The Lost Locket' because we thought that this way we could change the colour and the font more easily than we could in Adobe Premiere Elements 10. We added in the colours red and white as this was a common feature of the titles in romance films.



YouTube
We used the website YouTube to upload our clip and also some of the extra clips such as the diary of filming and the 'behind the scenes' type of films. These were only short but we created them so that we could explain what we were doing on the days which we were filming. We have both experienced YouTube and so uploading our film on there was not a hard task. It took some time in the process because beforehand we had to render the film on Adobe Premiere Elements 10 and make sure that the file we were saving the film in was compatible with YouTube. We did get confused at times because it took us a while to know what the file had to be saved in, but once we knew we uploaded it straight away.