Digital+Media+Response

//This page is designed to document some of the significant production steps that were taken in the production of the Digital Media Response.//

Pre-production
We completed a lot of initial planning around the group's approach to the various projects. We completed a lot of planning via Mind Meister. See embedded mind map

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The pre-production focussed on the concept, the storyboard and the script. We created a google doc to hold this pre-production work. See doc here.

By the end of the first day, we had made some big decisions around production and people's roles. We were well prepared to launch into shooting and collecting of resources on day 2.

Production
Rebecca kindly brought in her collection of Lego as well as a number of other props for us to use during the shooting. We had gathered some green screen paper and set about shooting the lego. This was a long and tedious process which resulted in a collection of over 730 images. The stop motion was completed on iStopMotion. While Dom, Steve and Emily moved the characters millimetre by millimetre, Rebecca patiently monitored the monitor. While all this was going on, Steve and Emily continued building the wiki. Steve also spent much time looking for the video and photo materials to be used behind the action.

Here are some examples of the work completed during the video production phase.



Post-production
Dom volunteered to complete most of the post production. Post production is primarily dedicated to the editing of both the sound and vision of the film. The technology used in the phase included Final Cut Pro, LiveType and Garage Band. This was a time consuming process that had a number of complex steps. The steps were as follows.


 * Turning the still images into .mov files in Final Cut Pro
 * Taking those .mov file and completing the chromakeying and inserting the background images in Final Cut Pro
 * Creating each text based segment in LiveType
 * Bringing each of the .mov files and the title files into the film timelines in Final Cut Pro
 * Cutting and editing the sound files in Garageband
 * Syncing the sound files with the video in Garageband
 * Importing the sound files from Garageband into Final Cut Pro
 * Importing any additional sound FX required into Final Cut Pro
 * Exporting the final production as a .mov
 * Compressing the .mov file down to YouTube size

A few issues popped up at the post-production phase. It was at this point that we realised the importance of producing a properly lit greenscreen. As you can see above there is a variance of green between images and a variance within the images themselves, which was created by shadows on the green. The variance in the images meant that there was some of the greenscreen remaining after the chromakeying process.

Publishing
This film was published on YouTube and then embedded in this wiki.

Here is our YouTube Channel.

And here is the finished video

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