WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM

THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS

PRODUCT?

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT? We have learnt about new software’s and how to use different types of technology in order to construct our media product. Some members of our group were less familiar in using the editing software and the camera, therefore we gave people roles which played to their strengths but also challenging targets so that we all improved in our knowledge of how to use certain things.

WHAT TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY DID WE USE?

Camera (Canon 60D)- we used the camera to film our media product, Toby did the filming of our media product as he was the most confident in doing so. SD card- the SD card was in the camera to store the videos; after we had finished filming we transferred the videos to the computer. Adobe premiere- within the software adobe premiere there were many different techniques you could use to adapt our product which we did as a group. Although it didn’t take some practice to understand how it all worked and whether it made our product better or worse. Mac computer- as a group we found the Mac quite difficult to work from as it has a different set up to a windows computer, and for me and Clare we had never really used one before. Therefore we had to learn how it worked which we did and by the end of the product we were capable of using it to a very good standard. Although Toby was familiar with using Mac so he didn’t find it as difficult as we did, this is why we gave him the role of doing the effects, and Clare the role of editing, even though we worked together on the majority of it.

Computer mouse- this was a simple piece of technology that was helpful to us when we was editing. I Phone- we used an I phone when recording the Foley sounds by using the voice record app. Tripod- we used the tripod when filming to get shots from different angles and heights, this improved our product as it showed variation and made our opening flow better. Photoshop- Photoshop was quite hard software to get used to at first; we used this to create our film poster. It took quite a few attempts to get the poster to the standard we wanted it to be, but we now know how to use Photoshop and could use it happily in the future. Blogger- we used blogger to post about the planning of our film opening and we put the video of the film opening onto our media blogs. We all found blogger straight forward to use, as we have used it multiple times.

We have learnt how to use the camera, how to zoom in, how to turn it on and off, how to record shots. We have learnt how to use the Macs, how to save files, how to edit using adobe premiere on the Macs as it was different from on a windows computer. We learnt the various different types of editing for example how to change the colour from normal to black and white; we now know how to do that and how to do other editing things. We know how to speed up a video and how to make it slower. All of our skills have developed immensely from the beginning of the course; the pre-lim task really helped us to understand the adobe premiere software before we had to do our final product. At the beginning of the course we was unaware as to how to use adobe premiere and blogger, and Photoshop due to practising we now know how to use these different software’s.

WHAT WE NEED TO IMPROVE UPON? I think we need to improve upon our camera skills as some of the shots are not in focus, and our film poster could be better than what it is, therefore more practice on Photoshop would improve that. We was really happy with our editing skills and how the final product ended up, but i suppose we could have explored more with the different types of editing that could have improved our product but we are still very pleased with it. We also need to improve upon actually uses the Mac as it was difficult at first but it will improve with practice.