For our opening sequence, we used a Canon digital DSLR camera which belongs to my partner to film with regular lens, with a regular size tripod that belong to the media department and a dolly to film and Adobe premiere pro for the editing.
I have had access to video cameras before the course and applied some of the skills I've gathered and to shoot the opening sequence. However I dint have enough understanding to the diffrent shot types but during the lesson, I gained full understanding and applied it to the Film opening; from the diffrent camera shot, mise-un-scene,sound and editing.
Me and partner played around with diffrent camera shots, this way we identity what shot was best for which.
Using the Canon DSLR was totally new to both of us, seeing that we've never used it before to film(the camera type), we had several difficulties, the attempt to get some scene out of focus to make it look interesting and .......... was a fail, we had previously done some scene and found out that we had to redo them because most of the scene that were meant to be in focus were out of focus due to our lack of understanding of the camera tools. Redoing it, we had help from our media teacher, who then taught us how to use the 'automatic focus',which we quickly applied and got on with film, apart from that, also the microphone from the camera picked up a lot of ruffling which was sorted with the editing machine (adobe premiere pro), the lighting was very poor so we had to improvise and used natural lighting by opening the windows and Turing on the lights and also making sure that were shooting at daylight this manage to improve the lighting not so much but it was better, every other things was okay plus the picture we got were very good quality.
We used the tripod to help hold the camera in other to get good still shots, we got variety shots from adjusting the tripod height and angle. we also used the dolly track to help us get a smooth tracking/zoom shot.This was used when we zoomed into the the computer, it was better this was rather than using the zoom in tool in the camera the quality wouldn't have been as good as it would be using the dolly. The devices was used with the tripod strapped to the dolly so the camera remains supported with the tripod, also for getting the diffrent angle shot and heights to help achieve the diffrent shots.
we used(Adobe premiere pro)editing software on a dell computer to edit our work, I had little understanding of how to edit, however I wasn't entirely confident with software machine, not only did we seek help from teachers and assistance, we also messed about with it to try and get the feel, and learnt the diffrent tools before finally editing our opening. the software allows you to import movie files from the computer however they type of files it allows very, some files you'll need to covert before importing i, this was not the case for us, we were able to import staring from media file, it then has a software where you can drag your chosen clip and trim, cut change duration and add effects the same process applies to adding sound.
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