Technology and how it was mastered

iMovie

We used iMovie to edit our media product. iMovie is an Apple editing software which is very user-friendly and easy to learn. iMovie has a helpful interface meaning that it is easy to navigate and teach yourself how to edit film. iMovie also allows films to be shared and published on facebook, youtube and vimeo- this was helpful as I posted our film on facebook to gather feedback to make changes.

However we have faced difficulties with iMovie such as importing the videos took a lot of time and often some were lost in the process of uploading therefore I had to upload them twice. Also the storage space on my MacBook Air is very limited and the whole editing process (having to add a lot of shots and save large files) took up a lot of space and meant that when we finalised our project we had to go through and delete videos we hadn't used so that we could create space to save the final piece.

Here you can see the iMovie window. In the top left hand corner is our project split into individual shots with the sound effects/voiceover bars underneath (also shown on the right)

On the top right hand corner is the viewer pane so when we play an event or project this is where the video plays. In the bottom-right hand corner of this screenshot you can see the buttons used to add music, stills, text, change the theme or add a map/background/animatic.

This toolbar allows you to(from left to right) import from camera (live capture), swap events and projects, zoom, add selected video to project, mark selected video as favourite, unmark selected video, reject selected video, record a voiceover, crop/rotate/Ken Burns (pan/scan effect notably used by director Ken Burns), and inspect fine adjustments to a clip's video and audio tracks.

This is the event library pane (located bottom-left hand corner) here you can see your events gathered together by imports and you can see iPhoto videos. 




Below is the event browser pane any clips uploaded to iMovie appear here. You can preview clips by hovering over with your mouse and it will display in the viewer pane. The orange lines under some of the clips represent that that part of that particular clip has been used in the project.

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX50 HS Compact Camera

We used a Canon PowerShot Compact Camera with 50X ultra zoom. We already had this camera and therefore used it as it was easiest to access. The camera creates steady film and 1080p films (full hd) allowing us to create good quality film. As I had already had this camera for 2+ years i knew how to work it quite well and this gave us an advantage as we didn't have to work it how to use it therefore could start filming straight away.