Today I will discuss the CCR question #4: "How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?"
For this project, we used a combination of many different items to film, and also many online apps and websites to complete it. We use Elias' dad's camera which had insane quality and pretty good stabilization. If it wasn't for the camera, I don't think it would have came out nearly as good as it did. We also used a tripod to held the camera in place when we needed to film some stable shots.
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*Elias walks up to car*
Elias- “Hey, I love your car, what do you do for a living?”
*Subtitles show car name, brand, price* *ca-ching noise*
Me- “Hey man what's up? My name is Thomas Miller, and I drive for a living.”
Elias- “Wow man that’s awesome! How can you afford this car?”
Me- “Well, I don’t just drive, I act too. My real name is Jano Kotsias, and Thomas Miller is the character I am playing in my new movie, The Motive.”
Elias- “That’s sick man! Is this your first movie?”
Me- “Yea, this is the first movie I act in, and also the first movie I directed, alongside my bro Elias.”
Elias- “That’s crazy bro! Can I have ten minutes of your time to interview you?”
Me- “Make it five, I got places to be.”
Elias- “So tell me, how did your production skills develop throughout this project?”
Me- “To be completely honest, starting this project was really difficult. My partner and I both had no prior experience with filming or editing before this project, excluding the other projects we did for this class. After doing a lot of research, and I mean A LOT, I started to get the hang of it, and it all just came together.”
Elias- “Wow man, that just goes to shows how hard work pays off.”
Me- “Yea, and facing challenges such as lighting, shadows, and focused and unfocused shots really test your patience, which I would like to think has also improved throughout this project. My editing skills have improved so much, it's insane, and I also learned how to make an amazing Canva presentation when making the production company logo by adding movement and sound to a slide.”
*Shows production company logo*
Me- “This project made me realize how every single choice made during a film is important, and one small mistake can mess up the whole project. I also learned how to fuse two genres into one, making a comedic action movie”
Elias- “It’s amazing how much you can learn from a singular project.”
Me- “Another area where I saw huge improvement was the camera positioning. When we first started, we would just place the camera anywhere and pray that it worked, but once we did research and got better at it, we focused more on the mise-en-scène elements of the shot and started placing the camera in a specific spot with props in specific spots for it to work the way we wanted it to.”
Elias- “Speaking about cameras, how did you integrate technologies- software, hardware and online- in this project?”
Me- “Great question. For our hardware, we used a tripod and Elias’ dad’s camera. The camera played a huge role in the success of our movie due to the quality of the shots, which doesn’t even compare to that of an iPhone camera. For our production company logo, as previously mentioned, we used Canva, and for editing, we used Adobe Premiere Pro. This editing software was really simple to learn and was quite effective. We got our sounds from this website called Artlist.io which has a huge variety of royalty free music.”
Elias- “Dang bro it’s so cool how you managed to use just those things to create such a beautiful film.”
Me- “Thanks bro! See ya around!”
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