Planning - Technologies

One part of the planning stage was to look at the technologies we needed to use, for example we had to familiarise ourselves with Adobe After Effects and adobe Premiere Pro. As well as learning how to use the camera and how to position frames correctly. This job fell to me and Lauren.

Together we watched a total of 9 videos equalling to roughly 131 minutes. This was very educational as we learnt how to do basic effects on After Effects, like removing a green screen and placing a different background onto it. As well as this we learnt more simple techniques like text overlay for example. This would come in useful for the opening credits as well as for future use. Here is a link to one of the videos:

http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/tutorials/07.3d/

After this we looked at the camera, seeing how each was used. This was useful as it familiarised us with the idea behind the camera and how to operate it efficiently.

All in all we became more familiar with the effects programmes as well as the camera itself. this will be helpful for when we come to film and edit.