Evaluation - Question 6.

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

Final cut pro:

In order to produce the opening of our media product, we used various technologies such as 'final cut pro', 'soundtrack pro' and 'sony vegas'. We used final cut pro in order to put together the film as a whole, we used this program in combination with soundtrack pro which was used to match the sound to our opening to match foley sounds. for instance footsteps, dragging of body and writing. Also we used it in order to create an effective diegietic soundtrack which works well to capture our audience's attention and keep the on edge.

Here is an example of a technique in which we used in final cut pro and how we did this:

Sony Vegas:

We used sony vegas as a separate programme in order to create the titles as we couldn't find the correct font in which we all agreed on. To make the title for my movie opening I used Sony Vegas Movie Studio. I wanted to use Livetype to make the titles but my group were behind schedule a bit so I decided to use a program that I was comfortable with and would be able to produce something. I thought about making the title a title on black screen. This would be placed at the beginning which would then be followed by the narrative.

the following screen grabs are some examples of how I used sony vegas in order to create the titles:

here I have chose the font in which i want to use, in this screen grab I am editing each titles in order for the titles to appear for 3 seconds each.

Here I have selected the time frame for each titles and testing it to ensure that they work correctly, after I will then import this into final cut pro and integrate each title in between scenes.

Soundtrack pro:

We used soundtrack pro in order to create an effective soundtrack for our media film opening. The ways in which we used soundtrack pro in order to combine all these technologies is that we used the final edit from final cut pro, exported this into a soundtrack pro, and then used the video to match sounds in the correct areas. we then combined all sounds to create one soundtrack which was the exported back to final cut pro and added to the overall film. We wanted to create an effective atmospheric sound in order to keep our audience on edge and to also attract our intended audience. 

To conclude, the above technologies have all been used in order to construct our film opening. We used sony vegas in order to create the titles effectively as we couldn't find the font in which we wanted to use apart from sony vegas. This helped us to create an effective title sequence to go with constructed opening of our media product.  Final cut pro was used in order to add shots together, and create different types of shots such as the match cut in which was used to show the before and after effects of the towel being thrown over the body. once our final edit was complete we then exported this to into soundtrack in order to create an atmospheric, engaging soundtrack for the opening of our media product.