In your experience how has your understanding of conventions developed through creating your productions?
Post Production Essay
Throughout my two-year media course, I have used a variety of post-production techniques which have significantly developed.
In the first year of coursework my post production skills were limited and basic this was shown throughout the year 12 practice edit tasks which involved creating a sequence of dancing animals on Adobe Premier Pro. This was my first time using Adobe Premier pro therefore my editing was very basic and not creative consiting of simple swipe and dissolve transistions aswell as basic cuts. The final task in year 12 was creating a film opening (Untamed). Firstly as a group we had not done enough reaserach and planning into the genre of our film, therefore when watching it back we had no obvious props or editing techniques to portray the overall genre which was teen drama. The editing was aslo limited as we were unexpereinced and had no knowldege of profesional editing techniques, therefore the editing also consisted of basic cuts and transitions with the titles simply put on as text over the moving image. The quality of the video is also quite grainy and of poor standard as we filmed outside in the dark and did not know how to change the camera setting to create a more visible image. From this i learnt how the importance of good lighting is crucial to create a proffesional looking outcome as it improves the overall quality of the video to much a higher viewing standard.
Although the film opening was simplistic, it was an improvement from the dancing animals task as we had more freedom and creativity within our production, which meant we could play around with effects such as black out, colour correction and importing text. This helped me gain experience on Adobe Premier Pro and improved my confidence and ability on the software which later help me in year 13.
In year 13 my editing skills developed further throught the preliminary music video task and the final music video task. In the post production of the prelim task we used more advanced editing techniques on Adobe such as using Blur Gallery and defining a focal point and warp stabalizer aswell as colour correction these more advanced techniques used shows the progress i had made from the start of year 12. In the final Music video task the editing had dramatically improved, we now felt confident and experienced in our editing abilities to create a music video that was almost at a professional standard. The editing techniques used included the use of motion (zooming in and out of the footage), warp stabaliser, pink colour correction, reverse and different speed durations.
In year 12 we had created a range of other media products to go with our music video this included a website and film poster. When we creating the film poster we used Word as we felt familiar with the programme as it is easy to use. Looking back the film poster is vety basic and at at an ammature level using Word meant we did not callenge ourselves and did not get to experience a professioanl editing programme. We also created a Website for Untamed on wix, the website was very basic we chose a simple layout and made minor changes which made the outcome vey simple and not attractive to a user.
In year 13 we also created a range of products to go with our music video, we focused on trying to create synergy across our products by creating a strong colour theme and a recognisbale image of our artist which was both used extensively across the media products. In year 13 we used photoshop to create our Digipak rather than word as we felt this would help us achieve a more professional oucome as we could use precise cutting and cropping techniques on Photoshop.We used youtube to watch tutorials and gradually got use to the software. For our website in year 13 we also used Wix, however we used a more complex profesional layout and made more modifications to it in order to create synergy. We made sure all our pages worked and that the website was easily accesible to its users by creating links and tabs that worked, this also made the outcome look very professional compared to the website made year 12.
Post Production Essay
Throughout my two-year media course, I have used a variety of post-production techniques which have significantly developed.
In the first year of coursework my post production skills were limited and basic this was shown throughout the year 12 practice edit tasks which involved creating a sequence of dancing animals on Adobe Premier Pro. This was my first time using Adobe Premier pro therefore my editing was very basic and not creative consiting of simple swipe and dissolve transistions aswell as basic cuts. The final task in year 12 was creating a film opening (Untamed). Firstly as a group we had not done enough reaserach and planning into the genre of our film, therefore when watching it back we had no obvious props or editing techniques to portray the overall genre which was teen drama. The editing was aslo limited as we were unexpereinced and had no knowldege of profesional editing techniques, therefore the editing also consisted of basic cuts and transitions with the titles simply put on as text over the moving image. The quality of the video is also quite grainy and of poor standard as we filmed outside in the dark and did not know how to change the camera setting to create a more visible image. From this i learnt how the importance of good lighting is crucial to create a proffesional looking outcome as it improves the overall quality of the video to much a higher viewing standard.
Although the film opening was simplistic, it was an improvement from the dancing animals task as we had more freedom and creativity within our production, which meant we could play around with effects such as black out, colour correction and importing text. This helped me gain experience on Adobe Premier Pro and improved my confidence and ability on the software which later help me in year 13.
In year 13 my editing skills developed further throught the preliminary music video task and the final music video task. In the post production of the prelim task we used more advanced editing techniques on Adobe such as using Blur Gallery and defining a focal point and warp stabalizer aswell as colour correction these more advanced techniques used shows the progress i had made from the start of year 12. In the final Music video task the editing had dramatically improved, we now felt confident and experienced in our editing abilities to create a music video that was almost at a professional standard. The editing techniques used included the use of motion (zooming in and out of the footage), warp stabaliser, pink colour correction, reverse and different speed durations.
In year 12 we had created a range of other media products to go with our music video this included a website and film poster. When we creating the film poster we used Word as we felt familiar with the programme as it is easy to use. Looking back the film poster is vety basic and at at an ammature level using Word meant we did not callenge ourselves and did not get to experience a professioanl editing programme. We also created a Website for Untamed on wix, the website was very basic we chose a simple layout and made minor changes which made the outcome vey simple and not attractive to a user.
In year 13 we also created a range of products to go with our music video, we focused on trying to create synergy across our products by creating a strong colour theme and a recognisbale image of our artist which was both used extensively across the media products. In year 13 we used photoshop to create our Digipak rather than word as we felt this would help us achieve a more professional oucome as we could use precise cutting and cropping techniques on Photoshop.We used youtube to watch tutorials and gradually got use to the software. For our website in year 13 we also used Wix, however we used a more complex profesional layout and made more modifications to it in order to create synergy. We made sure all our pages worked and that the website was easily accesible to its users by creating links and tabs that worked, this also made the outcome look very professional compared to the website made year 12.
Use your intro to explain what you will be covering as part of post production, and what your pieces were.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to keep everything relevant - props and lighting is not relevant to post production.
ReplyDeleteDo a while paragraph on print (Y12 and 13) and then another on web (12 and 13) - this will help you be more reflective.
You need really specific egs again - an examiner would have absolutely no idea what your coursework was from this.
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