Saturday, March 15, 2025

Research and Planning: CCR Q4 (Technology)

    Hey readers. Welcome to my last blog post before the week my portfolio is due. It is crazy how fast these past weeks have flown on by. As you could probably guess, in this blog post I will be going over the final CCR question (question four). The official question is, how did you integrate technologies—software, hardware, and online—in this project?

Hardware

    For my use of hardware in this project, I used mostly hardware that helped me in lighting because I really wanted to emphasize the color scheme I created that was focused on lighting, which I've mentioned in previous blog posts. I used my LED lights around my wall to create a purple color scheme and a mirror light as well so that the lighting would remain light enough so I could see details on the tarot cards and expressions on my actor. For the second part of the scene where the LED lights are no longer in use, I ended up only relying on candle lighting, and it actually worked out well in my favor. In addition to the hardware I used for lighting, I also planned on using a tripod I own but it turns out my tripod was broken and incapable of standing up on its own so I had to handheld shots which I liked better because it made the footage seem more raw and personal.

LED Lights and the Remote

 

Software

    In terms of the software, I used iMovie to edit my film opening. Even though I have a lot more practice using Premiere Pro because that’s what we used on in-class projects, I felt more comfortable using iMovie because using Premiere, I ran into several issues like my project deleting. Using iMovie worked out well as I found it easy to use as well as having all the features I needed for my project without being overwhelming like Adobe. In addition to iMovie, I also used Canva for my title and credit sequence. I used Canva by creating a video with my title and credits on a green screen with animation, which I then put into iMovie as an overlay and used the green screen feature. This was something I didn't even know was possible beforehand, but it worked well. In editing, I used Pixabay for free copyright-free audios and fontspace.com to find my copyright-free font (Child Witch) for my title and credits.

Here is me making the overlay on Canva



Here is me adding it using the green screen effect on iMovie


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Research and Planning: CCR Q4 (Technology)

     Hey readers. Welcome to my last blog post before the week my portfolio is due. It is crazy how fast these past weeks have flown on by. ...