WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF

CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

Q6

Evaluation Josie Askem

FINAL CUT PRO

Final Cut Pro was used majorly in the production of our media product. It is an editing software for Apple Macs,

which allowed us to do all of the editing for our film. None of us knew how to use the software at first, so we each played around with the different applications, and then watched a few tutorials on YouTube, which helped

greatly. The website http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial was on of the most helpful things we found as it allowed us to grasp as greater understanding of Final Cut Pro and

helped us to produce our final construction.

CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGY

Convergent technology referrers to a piece of technology which has more than one use (eg. A mobile phone is used to call and text others, but (usually) also can be used as a camera, and as a means of accessing

the internet, and even more things with different apps.)The internet allowed us to access all kinds of tutorials and helpful information from different media platforms

such as YouTube. We also used YouTube to research into existing media products so we could find out what

to include (and not include) within our piece.Mobile phones were also used to help in the process of our piece, for example our focus group was created and accessed using a mobile phone. They also allowed us to

keep in contact with each other as well as our focus group, whenever and wherever.

CAMERAS

To film our media product, we used two different cameras. The main camera we used was the Cannon

D600 with a Tamron lens, which was a good mix as we found we didn’t need a particularly quick lens due to

none of our shots including a lot of movement. In order to use the camera to the best of it’s abilities, we

found tutorials online which helped us understand the functions of the camera properly. Although, of course we learnt a lot through the trail and error process when we tested out certain shots prior to our final filming process.

We also used the Panasonic Lumiz DMC-SX8EB-K because we wanted to include a few extreme close up

shots and found the Tamron lens’ quality for these shots wasn’t high enough, so decided to use the Lumix.