Digital Technology

 Digital Technology


 Here is all the technology I used to make my project and the logo of the software Adobe Premiere Elements, which I used to edit my project, and the tripod I used in most shots to stop the image from looking shaky.

G3 LENS DV1 & OLYMPUS HD
The G3 DV1 is the small and a light mobile easy to use camera (on the right), the quality ain't the best but it done the job and it this is all that matters.

Below are four different pictures of shots all filmed with the Olympus HD camera.The camera that saved files in MP4 causing an issue, because only files saved in MPEG are compatible with Adobe Premiere Elements 7.0.

The point is that my teacher and I went to the I.T technicians office so as they could go on the system and convert the MP4 files into MPEG, allowing me to procede with my project on Adobe Elements effectively.
This was the hardest thing I faced through-out the making of my project when it comes to technology, because using two different cameras slowed me down and using a different camera just for the quality of the image wasn't the best idea, this being said I should have just stuck to using the G3 LENS DV1. The camera that my school had to offer, on this camera the files are automatically saved in MPEG, so all I had to was open them on Adobe and they were ready to be edited.
Everything on Adobe Premiere Elements is simple and it is just there, from having to write opening credits to editing shots and sound it is all so simple, the things we can do on Adobe Elements are very limited but I guess this is all to do with keeping it simple and making it quick to create a small project, cutting the scenes was the easiest part for me.
There were issues with Adobe Elements the biggest one being that I had to save my work every 5 minutes to prevent it from being lost because the computer would just freeze and I had to close the program. 

This is the biggest fail on my project!

The sky being grey (1:17) is confusing because earlier on (0:08) the sky appears a clear blue.

Then when the subject goes outdoors it is grey, this wasnt done on purpose but it can also come across as something that was done perpously to make the audience believe something that it is not, or the grey sky later on can be reflecting the emotions of the charecter or events that occured later on that they. You never know if the sky is wrong because it is is grey. Because now that it is done it looks like it was made for it to look that way.

The thing I was most disappointed with is the tracking shot

Because it was bang on with timing and all that, but very shaky and I know what I could have done for this not to happen. All that to do was attach the tripod to a skateboard or something with wheels and firm to create a wheelie platform for the camera, giving us a smoother shot of the subject making giving the whole product a bettter quality , this was filmed with the DV1 camera.

After sharing my project with people by showing it to them on YouTube viaHTC Desire HD.
The video was said to be confusing towards the end but because it is random and they dont know whats going to happen next, they would carry on watching it just to find out. What mostly attracted people to carry on watching it is the dark place at the end and what the desire to find out what charecter has to do with it. Nobody I showed my video to mentioned anything about the sky being grey, I think they assumed that is how it was meant to turn out because of the events that happen later on my project, people might have taken the grey sky on as a reflection of the mood or what is happening with the subject.