Technology and how it has helped and hindered our film and planning production.
Technology has been extremely useful throughout the creative process, but it hasn't been without faults. Starting with the internet and websites such as Google and IMDB which have made our planning process much easier in that they have helped give us examples of other genres and films that resemble ours or to help create our narrative. A specific example of how the internet how the internet has helped is that we needed learn the codes and conventions of a thriller genre, as such we search for "Codes and conventions of thrillers". Upon which we found a website that helped us to understand what it is we need to apply to our film in order to make it look like a realistic thriller. These examples consist of dark colours and faced paced editing which could be argued is what we did with our film
Codes and Conventions Of The Thriller Genre from Valvainolivi
Another way in which technology has aided our film making process is the use of professorial cameras which help make our film look realistic and show much more detail. We used a Sony 2000 to film our movie which if why when compared to last year is a much more clearer picture and goes to show that we have improved while filming's concerned. How this helped to improve creativity is that it allowed us to film to film shots and scenes from great distances while still maintaining a clear image, whereas last year we filmed with a much smaller Panasonic HD which while still useful didn't allow for as much artistic freedom and shots would sometimes become blurry or out of focus. Although the Sony 2000 has helped a great deal it would also be important to note that it wasn't without faults and created some problems while filming. With just one being the size of the camera, in that it can be hard to film shots from low angles because of it's size. This problem appeared when filming our intro during the stair climb.
Making posters on Photoshop has been very useful but it could be argued has caused more problems that any other piece of technology we have used. It has helped because it has many different tools which allow for a lot of creative freedom, examples such as filters and many different fonts. One main problem with Photoshop is that is very hard to understand how to use and is very complicated. This comes in the form of the tools such as the lasso which most of the time doesn't doesn't do as instructed. This has been a hindrance because at times because it can cause to have mistakes on posters and thus making it look unprofessional and unlike a real poster. How I feel this problem could be dealt with is they the makers of Photoshop to create a much more easier version of the software.
Apple Macs are great computers to create our film on, and they make it easier in sense because they have a much more wider range of applications on them to do much more exciting things which our video such as the ability to have many different web pages or word docs up at once without the speed of the computer slowing. What is something I have a minor problem with them is that I have always used PC's and learning how to use them has been a slow process, and this is something I have had to deal with throughout the film and blog work. An example of how Macs differ from PC's is the use of print screens, which on PC's is just a simple key. How this become a problem is that I didn't know how to print screen on a Mac for a long time, and still forget at times.
Another way in which technology has aided our film making process is the use of professorial cameras which help make our film look realistic and show much more detail. We used a Sony 2000 to film our movie which if why when compared to last year is a much more clearer picture and goes to show that we have improved while filming's concerned. How this helped to improve creativity is that it allowed us to film to film shots and scenes from great distances while still maintaining a clear image, whereas last year we filmed with a much smaller Panasonic HD which while still useful didn't allow for as much artistic freedom and shots would sometimes become blurry or out of focus. Although the Sony 2000 has helped a great deal it would also be important to note that it wasn't without faults and created some problems while filming. With just one being the size of the camera, in that it can be hard to film shots from low angles because of it's size. This problem appeared when filming our intro during the stair climb.
Making posters on Photoshop has been very useful but it could be argued has caused more problems that any other piece of technology we have used. It has helped because it has many different tools which allow for a lot of creative freedom, examples such as filters and many different fonts. One main problem with Photoshop is that is very hard to understand how to use and is very complicated. This comes in the form of the tools such as the lasso which most of the time doesn't doesn't do as instructed. This has been a hindrance because at times because it can cause to have mistakes on posters and thus making it look unprofessional and unlike a real poster. How I feel this problem could be dealt with is they the makers of Photoshop to create a much more easier version of the software.
Apple Macs are great computers to create our film on, and they make it easier in sense because they have a much more wider range of applications on them to do much more exciting things which our video such as the ability to have many different web pages or word docs up at once without the speed of the computer slowing. What is something I have a minor problem with them is that I have always used PC's and learning how to use them has been a slow process, and this is something I have had to deal with throughout the film and blog work. An example of how Macs differ from PC's is the use of print screens, which on PC's is just a simple key. How this become a problem is that I didn't know how to print screen on a Mac for a long time, and still forget at times.
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