I found my phone extremely useful when it came to organisation as I could set reminders and sticky notes for any deadlines or meetings. Its quick and simple to use and simply rings an alarm and comes up with the list of things I need to do and when for. This also meant I could remind myself in advance as so I could assure that I had done things in the allotted time and not been rushing things last minuet.
Facebook although widely know as a popular social networking sight was also very useful when I needed quick responses. It was also useful when doing my research because it enabled me to find out what kind of audience i should be aiming my film at. I also set up a feedback group which I regularly imbedded short clips of my film, mood boards the animatic and other such materials. I also linked my blog in so that people could keep updated and put in their own thoughts and views.
I used photo shop predominantly in making the animtic and story board. I also had to use it to put in some of the pictures on my blog due to technical problems. I found this very useful as it was fairly quick and easy to use once you got the hang of it .However, it did prove a little tedious.
I found that although blogger was quite useful for recoding my progress with my work and helped remind me where I was at, it also proved to be quite frustrating at times. It took quite a while to upload pictures and then fit in the text nicely with it and I have had to put in quite a few of the pictures in last minute because of the difficulties.
I found youtube quite tricky at first because i had only ever used youtube to look at videos and had never attempted posting any of my own. However, after working with my partner and slowing getting the hang of it, it soon became much easier to upload various versions of my film the animatic and even part of my evaluation on there. It also proved very useful in my research looking at all the different styles within film noir. It was also useful for feedback when someone viewed or commented on the videos either me or my partner would receive an update e-mail which we could then work from to make changes and improvements.
Using all of this technology helped me in achieving my task because it enabled me to organise myself and time keep, research , make my work neat and presentable, to make sense and keep track of the work I had done, get feeeback on the work I had done and keep up to date with my work (although admitidly not every deadline was met)
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Cannon digital Ixus 8015 was the camera that was used to film my piece. This was far easier to used than a handy cam because the file format was digital. This means that you do not have to used adobe or on location to upload the footage on to the compute. This camera also had a black and white feature making it easier to create that film noir effect. the camwea was strapped securely to a tripod which could be moved easily to capture things at different angles. The use of a tripod made it much easier to be exact with every shot and removed the danger of unnecessary movements which could have reduced the quality of my opening sequence.
Sony Handycam: I only used this camera once when shooting my audience feedback for question five of this evaluation. I found it very useful as it was quick and easy to use. I also used a tripod to make each shot steady so as not to reduce the quality. However it was much harder to use in terms of uploading the footage on to the computer. I also found it very hard to read the camera screen.
I only used On Location (OL) once when editing the footage for my evaluation. I found it quite hard to use as the first time the hole file was corrupt and I had to begin filming again. The program also repeatedly crashed leaving me unsure whether the work I had done had actually been saved. However, once I had sorted out the problems it proved easier to edit than I though although I found it extremely hard to see the different icons.
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I found Premier Pro quite challenging to use as again I found it hard to see the icons and had to ask my partner for a lot of help. However, after a while I got the hang of using the program and could do the basics. For example, brightness control, audio fades and razor cutting)
I also had trouble with the program after I had edited because it became very jumpy and glitchy. However, I fixed this problem by rendering it after editing.
To get my film opening on to my blog I simply copied the HTML in to my blog from youtube.
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I found most of the technology I used in the task very useful however others such as Premier and On Location to be quite temperamental and difficult to access due to my visual impairment. This was also a problem for me when using the Sony Handycam to upload my footage on to the computer as I couldn’t see the little screen to rewind or forward wind to the right place.
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