Question 6 What have you learnt about

technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Technology used for research When researching into films, statistics and so on I used two

different types of computers which had different software on them. The first hardware that I used was the Toshiba laptops which the school supply. These had the software Microsoft Windows and so the web browser was Internet Explorer. Apple Macbooks and The Macbook were other hardware which I used. These come with the operating software Lion, which is made my Apple which means that the internet web browser is the Safari application.

Research Software usedI used the web browsers, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and the search engine Google when searching for websites and examples. The main websites I used to find examples of other openings and to find videos to analyse was YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/). YouTube is a free website where people are upload videos for other people to see. In addition, I used the IMBD website (http://www.imdb.com/) so I could find out facts and figures about films, and which are the most popular. Similarly, I also used statistics and data from the British Film Institution website (http://www.bfi.org.uk/) to help me. I have learnt what websites are the most useful for different things I may need them for, such as YouTube is probably the most useful websites to use to find videos. YouTube is very easy to use therefore it saved us a lot of time as. This particular website is very useful as it has the majority of films, videos and clips which have been used in films and other TV programmes. After we finished our final project, we uploaded onto the Blogger, www.blogger.com. At first Blogger was difficult to use as it was a new website to me therefore I didn’t really know what to do however, after using a lot I became more comfortable with it as I knew where certain tabs were and so on.

Equipment- Camera & TripodWe used two different

camera’s however one had a much better

quality than the other. By using the school

camera with a better quality quite frequently

I learnt how to use it and what shots worked best where. The other camera we used was

one of the group members, toms, this

was because we couldn’t get the school cameras as there are

limited numbers.

The tripod was only used some of the time when film the opening. When we did use the

tripod I obviously learnt how to use it from unfolding it, to adjusting the height

and angle of the camera pod at the top of it and also how to

pack it away correctly. When we wouldn’t get the tripod due to them already being in use we had to improvise and use objects like

walls to keep the camera steady.

Camera Tripod

Editing hardware usedThe main Hardware we used for the film opening was the Apple Mac Mini computer with a different companies monitor to display it on. This is mainly because this had the best editing software that was available to us at school and was recommended by the teachers. There was also plenty of Mac computers for all the groups in the class to use. Our group found the make very easy to use for example when trimming and adding scenes and I also took to it very quickly as I had never used it before.

Editing Software usedThe main software me and my group used to edit our film opening was iMovie which was the default editing software on the Apple Macbooks. iMovie was very easy to use as it had very well labelled tabs whereas garageband, our group found it a lot more complex as the tabs were not labelled very well and it took a long time to get used to it. To get our horror music soundtrack we used www.freesound.org and added it into imovie straight away which was straight forward. When we made our own voice recording for the nursery rhyme we had to upload it through garage band and then add it into imovie with editing bits of the sound to where we wanted to out them, which took a lot of time. Which then we downloaded onto blogger.