Evaluation: Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


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Internet- Blogger:
Blogger has been a vital part of our project. It gave us a platform to share and collect our ideas within a group and also let us expand on it together. I've learnt how to use the tools provided and how to upload things of my own such as gifs, images, videos and a prezi. I did this to make the work look more interesting and also felt that it was useful to include several features of technology.

Vimeo- When we finished our final product we needed a platform to upload it. This is a video tube very similar to youtube. This enabled us to share our work with other students and gain feedback.

Software-
Soundtrack Pro: We used this programme to make a soundtrack for our film opening. With this programme I learnt how to change the pitch of individual sounds, how to split sound into different segments and how to change the volume of a particular sound at different times. We was able to obtain a nursery rhyme and edit it to make it more suitable for a thriller. To do this we changed the pitch and added other sounds from the library to compliment the lullaby.

Final cut Pro: This programme helped us build the opening. All our shots, video clips and titles were edited and added here. Final cut pro helped us put the shots in the particular order we wanted them in and let us add transitions and also special effects to the particular clip.

Quark: I used quark to set a guideline for the order of the shots of our thriller opening. This taught me how to create a storyboard and add writing to it.

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Equipment:

Flip camera: I used a flip camera to record students feedback and also 'behind the scene' footage. This helped us work on the criticisms we revieced from fellow classmates.

Still Camera: The still camera was very useful when taking pictures for the storyboard. This helped us get certain images and put them in the order we want them in. This set the guideline for the final product. We also took several pictures of our props, actors as they were performing, and ourselves as we were filming.

Video Camera: To film our opening we used a  JVC pro HD GYHM100E. We used this for the entire filming process and learnt how to use and function a camera properly. Focusing the lens was one of the features we had to learn and it was certainly not an easy task. At times the footage would be blurred as we couldnt use it properly but by the end of the learnin period this skill was also mastered.