6. What have you learnt about technologies in the process of producing this product

Pre Production

Animatic

Used Adobe Premier Pro to create an Animatic i.e. a Story board with sound. This allowed us to spot which shots worked well next to each other and the most effective way to tell the opening narrative.
Our Animatic:

Communication

Used social media to talk to group members an actors. Utilising this social media platform proved to be very useful as everyone on the chat had smart phones therefore replies were instant and direct.

In the commentary below, Louis, Seb and I talk about; GoPro (Production), Sound (Editing) and Grading (Editing).

Production

Go Pro

We experimented placing it on different parts of the skateboard:

Front of skateboard

Back of skateboard

We decided front, so you could see a view of the setting rather than a foot.
In reflection I think the Go Pro was successful, it made the naturalistic opening more interesting to watch as it provided a different range of shots and viewpoints. It was also easy to use- it was simple to attach and we could watch back footage simultaneously on either the GoPro App or the attachable screen.

Post production

Grading

Used the ProcAmp and Three-Way colour corrector on Adobe Premier Pro to create a darker tone to our final edit. This increased its' connection with the urban drama genre. Our main media reference for this was TV drama Misfits.