Evaluation Task 6

During the process I acquired different forms of software that would be used together in order to produce my final product. This included Sony Vegas and Adobe after Effects. My reasoning for using Sony Vegas is that we felt that it helped us to organise our scenes and clips, which helped us to bring all footage together and create the unfinished opening. Whilst Adobe after effects was used for additional effects which gave our product the final look it needed. For example our main editor Casper used after effects to create a distorted transition effect to make it seem as if there was an impending event about to occur and also to make it seem as the character Rakim had been hurt. This gave us the desired effect that we wanted to convey. We also used Adobe effects to create our typography, in which we used a combination of moving transitions, text and sound, as would wanted our opening to be as close to the film experience as possible. This taught me that I can use a wide range of software’s for a range of different uses. After Effects allows you to incorporate different ratio aspects in order to increase the resolution of the product (e.g. 720p, 1020p etc.). This taught me that some software’s can be used to develop and enhance the final product significantly, whilst other types of software can be used to place all the footage together in a chronological manner. However, they sometimes may be complicated to use and quite expensive. Another issue is that these programs are hard to use and difficult to acquire and use also come with regularly updated plugins, which is beneficial as new plugins can add new effects to your work. However, these plugins can sometimes come in big files such as 1GB or even 3GB, and some plugins are not free and are expensive to buy and download.