Post Production

Post Production (Brainstorm)

AS

Adobe after effect

We used this because it was they only one that Dale had used before so we thought that was a good enough reason for us to choose it. Little did we know it would give us as many problems as it did, for examples it took us ages to convert it to a file to put it on dales laptop so he could put it on a DVD for the teachers. And after Miss Sutton told us to that Adobe after effects is a programme for a pc because it’s very powerful not for a laptop.

Photo shop

I only used photo shop for a first preliminary task because we had to but even when I used that for the week that I did I only really used the cut tool and maybe some others, I didn’t like it at all.

A2

Adobe after effect

We did try and change to an easier programme but Dale’s laptop wouldn’t accept the file that Dale’s was trying to download, so doing that we seemed to have the same problems we had in the previous year but we did try to prevent them. And for some reason we couldn’t get it to covert onto a DVD but we don’t think it’s the programme because we managed to get it onto a DVD last year. But I think the positive for using this programme was because it was meant for special effects and not really for music video but in that case I suppose that it has made are music video have a better picture.

Photo shop

We had to use this programme much more this year because of the ancillary tasks we were given so I had to how to use it in more detail and learn fast. But I did have dale there to help me with but I managed to learn quick and produce a decent digipak and not that bad of a magazine advert. Even Miss Hammond has said that my photo shop abilities have improved so much over the year and especially when I didn’t use it in year 12 because I did a film opening and not a Magazine. But a negative of this is that my ancillary work might not be as good as other photo shop and might not get as good as a grade as it deserves mainly my digipak.

       

My software I have used on blog has got much better over they year for the evaluation and just in general. for example in AS I only used the blog to post stuff throughout the hole year including the coursework but this year I been using preze, scribd, wicks, twitter and word and some more but I have obviously used a lot more virility of software.  

 In are editing work we have been able to improve from are preliminary in AS with the bustard video to are A2 coursework by simple having more time in are A2 work because we only had 3 actors in it unlike when we did the Bustard video it had to involve the hole class and the punctuality was not up to its usual standard. And having only three actors you can keep track of everyone that is going to turn up and be able to focus on each other with what we want them to do unlike with a bigger group it was harder to get round to everyone.

I got the idea for the silhouette from a Linkin Park album and put it into my digipak and magazine advert because I think it suited the genre of what song we did. The only thing I might change for the digipak is that the band don’t have the instrument’s in the air because to me it looks a little bit to rocky for the song we did.

Over the passed two year of media and using Photoshop I like my skills in post production have improved leaps and bounds. Because I never had before used photo shop before I thought it was going to be a big problem however me and Dale decided to make a film opening very early in AS so it wasn’t much of a problem then. I did have to make a preliminary for a magazine advert which wasn’t that good but it didn’t have to be great but by not using photo shop it only postponed my problem of not being very good at it because I would have to use it in A2 with my digipak and magazine advert. However I think I managed to pull off a decent digipak and magazine advert considering I was probably the person that has used it the least and even Miss Hammand has said that my work from last year to this year on photo shop has improved a lot. However although I had less experience for the photo shop I do have my experience in Adobe after effects because I used it in As I had an advantage over people because me and Dale used it for are film opening.