TASK 6

W H A T H A V E Y O U L E A R N T A B O U T T E C H N O L O G I E S F R O M T H E P R O C E S S O F C O N S T R U C T I N G T H I S P R O D U C T ?

Viktoria Mempin

Our group have learnt a number of new skills with technology during the

process of making our opening film. We have used software programs that

were new to us and online websites which helped us explore and express our research, thoughts and ideas. In

my opinion, this has helped us create an effective film opening that suits our

psychological thriller genre.

MAHARATowards the beginning of our media lessons, we were introduced to Mahara.

This helped us be more organized with how we present the process of completing our final piece. This website was really useful and was really easy for us students to use which therefore made it easier for us to get our idea across to our audience.

FINAL CUT PRO XFinal Cut Pro is a software on the Mac that was used to edit our film opening. This was crucial in organizing our clips and putting them together and successfully adding in effects that we wanted to have in it.

The editing software was quite difficult to use however, we started to get the hang of it over time and managed to produce a final piece.

YOUTUBEYouTube was useful in areas of research and when carrying out tasks to further out our knowledge. This was a great platform in helping our group, as well as individuals, in developing our ideas, creativity and overall understanding.

This is also where have uploaded our evidence of work as well as Mahara.

PREZIThis presentation software allows us to create a creatively designed presentation that is professional and fun. We used this to put together our pitch and also individually create a presentation to show our progress through tasks.

PICSART –IPHONE APPTo create our company ident, we decided to edit it on an editing iPhone application called ‘PicsArt’. The reason for this was that it was easier to use than other editing software’s such as Photoshop which we weren't too comfortable with and also took into consideration the amount of time we had which was not a lot.

FREE SOUNDFree Sound was a website we used to find our background music for our film. This was to avoid copyright. There were many sounds available to choose from however, it took us a while to find the one we thought best suited our type of film.

CANON LEGRIA HFR56This was the digital camera we used to film our clips. It was important that we used a HD camera as it makes a big difference to the quality of the piece when uploading it to the Mac and we begin to edit.

As well as this, we also used a tripod keeping the overall balance of the camera which helped make our footage steady which means that there were no shakiness to it creating a perfect shot.

MAC

Here you see our team using the Macs and completing our tasks on Mahara. This is the form of technology we used when we were not filming.