The best editing program by far is Adobe Premiere Pro. As a
young teenager, I made gaming YouTube videos for others to watch, while I wasn’t
successful on an ever growing and oversaturated web site, I gained valuable
knowledge which I was able to pass on to others, and help to produce our film.
However, even though I was using Premiere before studying at College, I still
learnt a lot throughout the project, learning and consolidating my knowledge. I
feel that technology is a big factor in the production of a film, various
programs such as Adobe After Effects allow us to do stuff that you couldn’t do
years ago where you had to use practical effects.
Technology played a massive part in our own film, as we had
guns being shot in various scenes. Without the use of Adobe After Effects, the
gun would not shoot, and it would look visually boring. I myself, wanted the
gun to have a strong visual impact in the scene. I produced the effects for the
gun shots, I made sure to emphasise the shot, which is unrealistic, but is what
many films do to create a bigger and more ‘badass’ effect. I wanted the scene
to pop. Bright muzzle flashes come out of the gun for one single frame followed
by a great puff of smoke. The entire scene lights up, sometimes the scene only
lights up in certain parts. Lighting up the environment.
After I produced these, we inserted them into our film and
added sound. Programs like Audacity helped us here, as we could change the
sounds to sound better. Taking sounds from the internet and moulding them into
something that fits our film better than the original content. Putting that
little bit more effort in gives us a much better result. The sound of the gun
shot really helps to emphasise the impact this might have on our two
characters. Opening fire on officers of the law and various other people is a
massive crime, so this establishes that they are committing more crimes then
just drug dealing.
Of course, we learnt something with the practical technology
too. Like learning how to use the DV Camera and the Tripod. How the legs can be
moved, etc. We used flashlights to light up scenes, in the first shot, we used
a flashlight placed under the camera, to bring more light into the scene. We
had a second Tripod which Jamie owned. We used the to hold the flashlight
still, so it didn’t move, and if we needed to stich two clips of the same exact
shot together, they will both be relatively the same continuity and lighting
wise.
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