Creative Critical Reflection #4 - Technological Incorporation

The main technological aspects of our film making processes were the use of editing software, using a drone, and the use of multiple cameras.

Editing Software

To edit this the project, we used different editing software; ShotCut and Adobe Premier. For our first submission for the midterm, I realized that I did not have Adobe Premier installed on my computer and didn’t have time to install it. shortcut was the only editing software that I had, and I did its job perfectly fine. The only issue that we ran into was that it crashed semi-frequently, but no work was lost because of these crashes. For the third quarter submission, I had installed Premier and was able to recreate the film with the revisions intakes, titling, and audio.

Drones

The use of The drones were really interesting in this film. We initially didn’t know how to add drone shots into the film, until we started flying and saw the entire preserve and decided that it would be great for an opening credits shot. We had about 6 minutes of drone footage but decided to only use the one clip. Another interesting idea we had was to use the drone as a gimble because of the stabilization feature. This was used in our midterm submission for the long take that tracks Dan. We decided that we really like the idea but the drone camera as unable to get audio. We reshot the scene using another camera and a gimble to get the Steadicam effect.

Multiple Cameras

The use of multiple cameras was not a planned idea, but out of necessity. The cameras we used were a Canon EOS Rebel T7I, an iPhone 7+, and a drone camera. The Canon Rebel gave the best quality, but also was a very load camera. What I mean is that the camera lenses were very loud when focusing. This makes sense as the Rebel is meant for picture taking and not videos. We decided to reshoot the shots that needed replacing due to camera sounds with an iPhone 7+. This was due to the easy of recording and the use of a gimble made for phones. The drone camera was the default camera from the DJI Phantom. This camera didn’t record audio, so we used it for aerial shots that we could play sound effects or music over.