6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Other than having a good narrative, we need the support of technology to produce our intended idea on the screen.



Below is our directors' commentary, we talk about the following:

• What would we do differently with the benefit of hindsight?
• What do we know that you didn’t know before?
• What could we have done, but didn’t.

Software:


The main software we used was Adobe Premier, and having used that for our GCSE project we were very experienced with it and knew what we were doing. We were confident on how to use all the tools, such as the razor tool, pen tool etc. We were also able to use other forms of editing on Premier such as the speed and duration feature, which we used to apply either slow motion or to speed things up.

While editing we included a variety of different editing techniques such as match on actions and sound bridges.  We also did non-linear editing, as we were able to move all our shots around as we wished and shot them different orders according to set-ups and how easy they were relative to other shots.

Before we did any of our shoot/editing we made an animatic on Premier, this allowed us to get a general idea of our timing, music and shot lengths.

For all the special effects in our film (there were a lot), we used After Effects. Below are two videos where I discuss how we achieved different effects, what worked and what didn't.

Our film heavily relied on technology as without them our final product will lack realism as the gun shots and explosions just wouldn't work. My overall learning curve when it came to this was high, I grew in confidence and ability when it came to doing this during the course of the project. I became quicker and better at adding the 

Hardware 

We used Canon HV30 to shoot our sequence, it was very good and were able to focus on a lot of key things. We made mistakes when using the camera as some of our shots were out of focus, however we rectified these mistakes in our re-shoot and eventually got to grips with all the techniques. 

Since we shot outdoors we didn't have much lighting to actually do by ourselves, we just checked the weather for our shoot days.