My Evaluation

Motion

Motion is a piece of software that we used to create the text that showed on the screen. This includes; the starting credits and the name of the film at the end of the starting sequence. 


This software was very useful to us because it allowed more variety in many aspects with the text. This involved being able to adapt motion to the text, for example, the 'Ghostly Fade In and Out' effect. 


Motion wasn't a programme that we used to the best of its capabilities or a programme that used a lot in order to help complete our thriller. However for the uses that we needed the programme for it was very help, but at times was hard to use due to us not practicing with it when working on the Preliminary Task.  

Garageband

Garageband is a piece of software which allows you to create, edit or piece soundtracks or songs. Due to us only using the live sound in our Preliminary Task there was no need to explore Garageband before hand. However this was not a setback for me as I already had a good knowledge on how to use the software to almost its maximum capabilities.   


In Garageband we managed to develop the soundtrack and different sounds like the typing sound effect. In order to create the soundtrack I used the 'Musical Typing' component of the software, which allowed the computer keyboard to act as a musical real keyboard. After doing this process and recording the soundtrack I was able to manipulate and edit it as much as possible with the choice of a wide variety of effects. 

Garageband was a very useful tool to have and use when creating my thriller audio, not only because I am already familiar with the software, but also because there was such a wide range of different sounds or sound effects that you could even edit to your liking as well. 

Final Cut Pro

When me and my partner finished filming our thriller we used the software Final Cut Pro to edit various parts of the footage. After doing the Preliminary Task I did feel more at ease when actually using the programme to edit the parts of the footage that we needed to be edited. However it did take a bit of time for me to become fully comfortable with the programme.

Final Cut Pro provided us with a wide variety of interesting effects and transitions, which allowed us to experiment with our footage in a number of different ways. For example me and my decided to use the 'Red Green and Blue Filter' to create the sleek looking 'night vision' effect that we so desperately wanted. However, there were some effects that we discovered which we never would've thought to use in our thriller but ended up to aid us into achieving what we wanted to achieve in our thriller. An example effect would be the 'Bad T.V.' effect, which enabled us to explore the different ways of making our footage fuzzy and distorted, adding to the 'paranormal' and 'spooky' effect that we wanted.

We were also able to edit the live sound and the soundtracks from Garageband on Final Cut Pro. We decided to add in some of the audio transitions that Final Cut Pro provided in order to match the sound and make the sound synchronous with the footage that we had. An example of an audio effect that we used regularly is the 'Cross Fade' effect. This effect allows us to gradually increase or decrease the sound of the track in order to either create a smooth transition or a suspense feeling for the audience, when watching our thriller.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed working with Final Cut Pro because it allowed a great range of choice in effects, transitions, etc. that we were able to use in order to excel our thriller film into the heights that we felt it could achieve. Also despite the software being a little intimidating at first I still felt that it became very easy and quick to master, making it a huge help when I was editing parts of our thriller, therefore the software was a great pleasure to work with. 

Software Used

After shooting our thriller footage we had to edit many parts of the audio and video. In order to do this process we had to use different specific pieces software. Like;

Final Cut Pro                                        Garageband                                                  Motion