QUESTION 6: WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING

THIS PRODUCT?

EQUIPMENT

CAMERA

To film all of our shots videos and our actual final opening, we used my own camera which was a DSLR the name of the camera is Nikon 3200. This camera was very simple to use and gave a sharp clear image for our videos. I was mainly using the camera and filming and I found it very light and easy to film with.

TRIPOD

To film many of the shots in our final film we used the tripod to hold the camera, this gave us very lean and steady shots it was also making it very simple to use as we wouldn’t have to hold the camera a lot as we would place it on the tripod and film many of the shots for instance; long shots, medium shots etc.

EDITING PC

The editing PC that we used was very good as we had two SD cards and had to use them both as they both had shots of our thriller opening on them. The PC made it straightforward and very quick to make the other videos have the same settings as the original one. The PC worked quick and had no faults it was very easy for us students to work out how to use too after practice.

SOFTWARE

BLOGGER

Throughout the project of creating our opening thriller film, I used blogger to keep data of my work and what I have done to create my opening film. It also helped me understand all the concepts of what needs to be done before making a film. I learnt how to make tabs and pages, I also learnt how to upload videos and pictures also embed other technologies things onto the blog. Blogger is an excellent way to present coursework especially for a subject like media as it involves a lot of individual parts which. Using blogger it helps with connecting to the audience and it is very simple and easy to use. One disadvantage is that you can not make it look as good as it is very simple.

YOUTUBE

YouTube has helped me to publish videos that I can then post onto blogger by simply uploading it to my account and then. I first used YouTube to post my different camera shots, I also used it to post one of my powtoons onto the blog as the embedded code would not work, and I lastly uploaded my final film. YouTube was a quick and easy tech that I could use and upload instantly to the blog with no hesitation.

ADOBE PREMIER PRO CS6

Adobe Premier is an editing tool to use to create sustainable edited videos, this helped throughout the coursework for me to easily edit my videos and place them together into one, by cutting scenes short or changing the pace or cutting sound or adding sound in. It was a very complex tech to use as many keys and features were provided but with practice I understood the main features that I had to use to create the videos I made.

PREZI

I used prezi effectively throughout this project as it was a good tech to use and learn, it helped to spread my work out nicely and neatly and present it in another way on my blog. I learnt how to place images and change fonts also add more spaces for text to be put. Also learnt how to change the background image and how to change the arrangement of everything.

POPPLET

I used popplet twice for my blog, I used it when showing the forms and conventions of the Thriller genre and I also used it for one of my evaluation questions. It is a very easy tech to use as I learnt how to use it very quickly, it is basic and simple but presents your work very well. I learnt how to place images and also change colour of background and add colour to the bubbles around the texts. It is a basic way to make a mind map on the web.

POWTOON

Powtoon was very difficult for me to use, I only used it once for my blog. The timing for the text to appear on the screen was difficult to handle as it would only have a little bit of time and very hard to read it like that. However I did learn how to use it, and once I did it became simple. I learnt how to create different animations and transitions to appear with the text and images, also learnt how to add music and how to make it flow well.

WHATSAPP

The app was used mainly to keep in contact with all group members for when the date would be to arrive together to film our media film. It was a great app to use as communicating with each other was key as we had to all contribute so if one could not then they could inform the other group members.

WIKIPEDIA

Helped with accessing information about films and companies, as information can be difficult to find on the web about some things, Wikipedia was a site which had everything right in front of you and gave enough information for you to understand everything easily.