Question Six

"Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?"


I was the camera man and the creator of the music for our main AS Media production.


Firstly with the camera work, I was lucky enough to get a High Definition camera to record our video but I had decided to use standard definition settings as it would make the video smoother for the video editor as recording the movie in HD would make the recording larger and make the video while editing jumpy. There were many features on the camera such as changing the contrast and brightness levels, there was a feature to use focus but we weren't able to use "manual focus" as we encountered some technical difficulties.


We tried to use focus to emphasize the religious state but the problem was that the camera was touch screen and we did not know about that feature `until we finished recording.


We used the brightness settings to good effect and I experimented with the contrast and brightness a lot since I knew that we could change it when we started editing.


I also created the music for our group and I used the music editing software "Fruity Loops 9.0 XL" for windows, I had limited amount experience with the software, I learnt how to use the software by experimenting a few days prior to the day, I started creating the music, I encountered a problem as I had a different sound card to what the software needed, I found my way around the issue by watching a YouTube tutorial on how to change the settings for my soundcard.