CCR Question 4

The fourth question of our CCR is: How did you integrate technologies -software, hardware and online - in this project? I plan on answering this question before question 3 because I really want question 3 to be last. Here's my script for this part:

Hello, I’m Gabriela Espitia, the filmmaker of the new coming of age film Am I To Blame, and I’m here to talk all about it. So how did I even make my film? Let’s dive into it. I integrated a lot of different technologies such as software, hardware and online, throughout the whole production process in order to achieve the best product.  The main software I used was Adobe Premiere Pro for editing everything together, and I had a lottt to learn such as how to fade out the sound, or how to cut audio to give the effect of turning up to volume, how to zoom into a shot, how to stabilize a shot, and the list goes on and on. So I spent a lot of time learning as I went about editing it. However, I was familiar with two other softwares that I used for this film: Canva and Notability. I used Canva to help me design the production logo as well as the logo for the podcast. Although I was already very familiar with it, I still had to look up how to do some things like how to increase the time that an animation lasts. For Notability, I simply used it to create my storyboard as I thought it would be easier to draw it by hand AND online so that I would have the ability to draw Layla just once and then copy and paste her wherever I needed her because I’m not the bestttt at drawing people. For hardware technologies, we used my phone to film since we had no access to a camera, but the quality of the shots were still very good. We also used it to record the argument among the parents and the whole podcast. For lighting, we used a lamp that my mom had that could change colors and in some shots, like the one where we show the picture frame of Layla and Liam, we had to play with our phone's flashlights to help the picture actually be seen, but without having the light reflect off of it. In regards to online technologies, I watched many YouTube videos to help me understand how to do a lot of the editing. And of course I used Blogger almost every day to track my progress throughout this whole production!