Having never really used YouTube to upload content before, I had to learn how to get the best quality picture on to YouTube. the first time we exported our film to YouTube, the quality was under par, but we quickly learned out to export it in a higher quality and we soon re-uploaded it and it is now up to good standards. I feel it was fortunate to get to know the basics of film exporting and uploading files to a website, as a film company we would need these skills fairly often.
Another piece of software we gained knowledge of was the editing software iMovie. We have used iMovie before but it was on a very basic scale. But since we had to make much more professional content, we decided to teach ourselves about it so we can benefit our film even further with more complex editing. We learned about adding titles into our opening credits, this was fairly simple although it took us some time to decide which font and style looked most effective for our film. We also utilised the saturation tool, we decreased the overall colour in our film so it looked more dull and had more lifeless colours. The area we were filming in had quite a lot of healthy green vegetation, and this would've negatively impacted the connotations of our film. Fortunately we saturated much of the lively colour out of it so it looked far more gloomy and fitted in with a horror/thriller genre.
The camera was simple and easy to use, since we were only using the recording function. We didn't run into any problems using it, and getting the content from the camera to computer was a simple job. We did the same thing in our preliminary so we already knew how to tackle getting our content onto the computer for editing. Although it was the first time we have used a tri-pod (we didn't use one for our preliminary) it was still relatively simple to use. We quickly found out how to utilise it and get the best shots and stability, we feel it smoothly recorded all our content successfully with successful and smooth pans to establish settings as well as having really still and stable shots with little to no shaking.
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