Evaluation Question 6

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

When making our film, I learnt a lot about how to use Adobe After Effects to create gunshots and blood splatters effectively. I also learnt how to colour grade our shots to tint the colour, change certain colours, and give it an overall ‘washed out’ effect in Adobe Premiere Pro.

I learnt how to create the gunshots in Adobe After Effects from a YouTube tutorial. Originally the muzzle flash did not seem to be the correct colour but we as a group managed to work out how to change it so it fitted into the surroundings. We also adding in atmospheric effects to make the gunshot more real such as glow and smoke. Below is the YouTube tutorial I used to help create the gunshot effect.

In hindsight, I probably would have liked to have used a track for the camera so that the tracks could be smooth, as a couple of the tracks we used in our opening sequence weren’t smooth enough. However, I learnt how to use the manual focus on the Canon HDV 30 camera which helped me to shoot some of the shots where the focus shifts during the shot.




Using the Camera on shoot

 



  

The different technology had different advantages and disadvantages. The camera’s auto-focus was very useful for focus shifts, but wasn’t very easy to get right so some of our shots are slightly more out of focus than they should be.

If we’d had enough time and enough knowledge, we could have created a beast in Adobe After Effects so that the audience could see what it looked like. However, we kept the beast unseen in our opening sequence which helped to add to the tension that was built with the actions and music.

Using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our sequence in the Edit Suite



We used Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
to edit our sequence