TECHNOLOGIES

HOW DID I USE THEM

DSLR• BEING A PHOTOGRPAHY STUDENT I WAS ALREADY QUITE CONFIDENT WITH USING A DSLR

CAMERA HOWEVER THROUGH THIS I HAVE BECOME EVEN MOR CONFIDENT WITH IT.

• RESEARCH• DURING RESEARCH I SAW THAT MANY NEO-NOIR FILMS WERE VERY SMOOTHLY FILMED

MOST LIKEY FILMED WITH A DOLLY OR A STEADY- CAM. UNLIKE HORROR FILMS WHERE A LOT OF HAND HELD SHAKY MOVENMENT IS SCENE. AFTER, SPECIFICALLY, WATCHING THE FILM ‘BRICK’ (2005) I WAS INSPIRED TO INCLUDE A LONG TRACKING SHOT THAT WOULD BE HARD TO LOOK SMOOTH, AS I REALLY WANTED THAT CHALLENGE.

• PLANNING• THE PLANNING OF THE FILM WAS QUITE A LENGTHY PROCESS. I DECIDED TO GO OUT AND

TAKE SOME TEST SHOTS JUST SO I COULD TEST WHAT ISO WOULD BE BEST TO USE TO FILM OUR SHOTS. I DECIDED OF AN F STOP OF ROUGHLY F/11 DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF THE SHOTS AS WE WANTED TO GO FOR A SLIGHTLY DARKER FEEL TO OUR FILM AS THIS IS A CONVENTION THAT IS SEEN IN MANY NOIR FILMS.

USING THE CAMERATHIS IS THE DIAL THAT I USED TO DARKEN THE IMAGE AND THE ONLY WAY I COULD DO THIS IS ONCE I CHANGED THE SETTINGTO MANUAL. THIS DIAL EFFECTS THE ISO MEANING THE ACTUALIMAGE WAS DARKER AND HAD A MORE MOODY EFFECT.

THIS IS A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF HOW I USED THE F STOPS TO EFFECT MY IMAGE THIS SHOWS THAT WITH MY LOWER F/STOP LESS LIGHT WOULD BE LET INMEANING THE IMAGE WOULD BE DARKER, THIS DID MEAN THAT I LENGTHENED THESHUTTER SPEED TO ALLOW A LITTLE BIT MORE LIGHT IN SO THAT I COULD CREATE AN IMAGE THAT I WAS HAPPY WITH. BECAUSE I HAD THE CAMERA IN MANUAL MODETHIS MEANT THAT I HAD TO FOCUS THE CAMER AS WELL AND I WANTED TO CREATEA DEEP DEPTH OF FIELD SO I WAS HAPPY TO DO THIS.

PHOTOSHOP• PHOTOSHOP IS SOMETHING THAT I FELT QUITE ABLE TO USE AND I ENJOYED

EDITING THE PICTURES THAT I USED IN MY MAGAZINE FRONT COVER. • THE IMAGE THAT I STARTED OFF WITH WAS QUITE GREY AND BLAND SO I USED

THE LEVELS IN PHOTOSHOP TO CHANGE THIS AN ADD MORE CONTRAST. THIS MAKES THE IMAGE MORE TYPICAL FOR TE NOIR GENRE AS IT ADDS A SENSE OF CHIAROSCURO LIGHTING.

PHOTOSHOP• AS WELL AS EDITING THE IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP I USED THIS TO CREATE THE

WHOLE OF MY MAGAZINE FRONT COVER. SO THIS WAS THE KEY MEDIA TECHNOLOGY I USED TO COMPLETE MY TASK. THE MAIN TOOLS THAT I FOUND USEFUL WERE THE TEXT TOOL (FOR ADDING/EDITING TEXT), THE SHAPE TOOL (WHAT I USED TO CREATE MY SKYLINE/BOX OUT) AND THE MAGNETIC LASSO TOOL (WHICH I USED TO SELECT CERTAIN PARTS OF THE IMAGE TO COPY/PASTE AND TRANSFORM THEM).

WORDPRESS• THE BEST WAY TO RECORD MY PROGRESS WAS TO UPLOAD IT TO A BLOG AND THE

ONE THAT I USED WAS WORDPRESS. FOR THE MOST PART I FOUND IT A EASY WAY TO BLOG HOWEVER I DID HAVE TO EDIT MY THEME AS IT WASN’T QUITE RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE, HOWEVER AFTER THIS IT WAS FINE.

• THE ONLY THING THAT I HAD AN ISSUE WITH WAS BECAUSE I ONLY HAVE A FREE WORDPRESS RATHER THAN A PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION THERE WERE SOMETHINGS THAT I WAS UNABLE TO DO. FOR EXAMPLE EMBED A VIDEO CLIP INTO THE BLOG ITSELF. TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM I HAD TO UPLOAD MY VIDEO TO YOUTUBE THEN PUT THE LINK INTO THE BLOG. HOWEVER IT WAS VERY EASY TO ADD A BLOG.

YOUTUBE• YOUTUBE IS THE SITE I USED TO UPLOAD MY VIDEO TO SO THAT I WAS ABLE TO

UPLOAD IT TO MY WORDPRESS. AS THE VIDEO CLIPS WERE QUITE SMALL THAT I WANTED TO UPLOAD THEY DIDN’T TAKE A REALLY LONG TIME TO UPLOAD WHICH IS AN ISSUE THAT I HAVE HAD IN THE PAST. I FOUND YOUTUBE A GOOD PLATFORM FOR MY WORK AS I WAS THEN ABLE TO SHARE AND SEND IT AROUND.

DREAMWEAVER• DREAMWEAVER IS THE ONE PROGRAMME THAT I HAD NO IDEA OF HOW TO USE,

SO I FOUND LEARNING HOW TO USE IT QUITE EASY. I HAVE A PREVIOUS BLOG OF HOW I LEARNT HOW TO USE IT AND AS I WAS NOT IN CHARGE OF CREATING THE WEBSITE, THIS IS AS MUCH AS I LEARNT ABOUT IT SO I WILL INSERT SOME IMAGES OF HOW I USED THIS.

PREMIERE• PREMIERE IS A PROGRAMME THAT I BELIEVE TO BE ONE OF THE MOST VITAL

TECHNOLOGIES WHEN COMPLETING OUR FINAL PIECE. AT FIRST I DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT AT ALL. HOWEVER AFTER CREATING A TRAILER FOR A NOIR FILM THAT IS ALREDY MADE – IN MY CASE ‘DOUBLE INDEMNITY’ – I FELT A LOT MORE CONFIDENT WHEN USING IT SO THE RESEARCH AND PLANNING REALLY HELPED IN THIS CASE.

• AS I SAID IN MY PREVIOUS BLOG POST ABOUT PREMIERE I DIDN’T REALLY LIKE MANY OF THE TRANSITIONS THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE PROGRAMME SO I MAINLY USED THE OPACITY TOOL TO CREATE MY OWN.

• MUSIC – I EDITED MY MUSIC IN PREMIERE AS WELL, AS THE NON-COPYRIGHT TRACK I HAD MATCHED THE ACTION QUITE WELL, HOWEVER THERE WAS A PART IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG WHICH I DIDN’T NEED SO I JUST CUT THIS OUT AND ADDED A SHORT AUDIO TRANSITION TO THIS TO MAKE IT SEEM NATURAL.

THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHEN I USED THE OPACITY TOOL TO CREATE MY TRANSITIONS