The document discusses what was learned about technologies from creating a film project. It discusses how editing techniques like continuity, cutting on action, and maintaining a consistent pace are important. It also covers learning to use Premiere Elements and how to manipulate video levels, contrast, brightness, and saturation. When filming, framing shots correctly, using a tripod, retaking shots due to faults, keeping things in focus, following the 180 rule and rule of thirds were all important lessons learned. Maintaining proper lighting was also a challenge addressed.

1. Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies
from the process?

2. Editing
• Continuity editing was important in
mastering as it added to the
verisimilitude of the piece. When
creating the scene in the wood we had
to flip footage to create continuity
between the movement of the victim
and the POV of the killer.
• I learnt the use of cutting on action
being very important in the process.
This was important in the office scene
as we did not want shots to linger as the
pace was meant to be snappy until the
phone call.
• Shots that were too fast or slow or
generally irregular to the pace caused
the film to look disjointed so we
corrected this by making sure that each
scene had a set pace.

3. Editing
• Learning to use Premiere Elements
was interesting. From finding its
limits but also using the tools it has,
for example I only found out the
cut tool half way through editing
and it made corrections much
easier.
• Making sure the video stayed a
similar colour was important. So
learning to manipulate the levels of
contrast/brightness and saturation
was helpful.
• I created the tile by making a very
long film reel in Adobe Illustrator
and putting into After Effects. This
helped me to learn to use the Adobe
Suite using all the aspects to
achieve the goal. I layered text
layers of different colours and key
framed the blur settings and opacity
to create a gritty 35mm film look. I
added a black solid that flashed on
and off but during the screening
people commented that it was hard
to watch.

4. Filming
• We used my camera so I was completely
familiar with its functions but I learnt to make
sure framing was correct. This comes across
between our first shoot (Crime scene) and our
final shoot (Office scene).
• Secondly camera movement skills had been
learnt. Using a tripod when using the camera
is crucial to getting the perfect shot.
• Many shots had to be taken again due to a
fault or mistiming of ending of the scene. This
especially occurred when having multiple
actors.
• Making sure things were in focus was
important too and so was the light we supplied
the camera as darker shots had a more grainy
consistency. Which is very visible in the
garage scene.
• Making sure both the 180 rule and the rule of
thirds were followed was often a challenge
and discussions of the direction of the 180
were raised during filming.