Question 6;

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What technologies have you used?
Throughout making our opening sequence we used a number of different techniques which helped us to improve our piece expanding our skills and gain a better grade. We used blogger, screengrabbing, screencast, tripod, fig rig, live type, final cut pro, da font, youtube, freesound and imovie. When filming the tripod and fig rig helped us to sustain a steady shot to avoid camera shake or to make our shots smooth and interesting. We managed to get some good shots with both equipment by adjusting the height of the tripod to get various levels (ground or high) or using the fig rig during out running shots to give a more jolty effect. Live type, final cut pro, da font, free sound and imovie basically created our opening helping us edit and change different things like the sound to get the result we wanted and to emphasise our piece. Using imovie, blogger and youtube we made our piece a video format and uploaded it making it easy and viewable. Blogger helped us keep track of our work e.g. planning etc and kept us organised keeping it all in one place.

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What technologies are brand new to you?
Using Imovie was new to me as even though I knew roughly what it was I wasnt completely sure how to use it. Whilst creating our opening sequence I learnt a lot about effects and sound making our opening a good standard and allowing us to expand our techniques coming to a final piece which portrayed our storyline and atmosphere.


What technologies have you developed your skills in?
 Throughtout planning and constructing our opening I feel i've mainly developed my skills in filming and general camerawork but more so editing and working with the macs. I think I have improved alot in using imovie and understand it a lot more now and am able to do basic editing skills using effects and sound techniques. I also feel I have improved using the macs in general e.g. knowing where everything is and being able to find what im looking for on my own.

What technologies have allowed you to produce something really creative?
Imovie was the main thing that helped us produce our opening. The effects or transitions etc and colour change really linked to our storyline and helped us portray the atmosphere and feeling we wanted to give.

What technologies have allowed you to display your work in a certain way?
Blogger has been the best and most effective way of showing and displaying work. It keeps your work in a neat and tidy format which is easy to use and understanding making it easy to find your work as its displayed in order over time. Youtube has also been effective when displaying work. When finished with a video we would render and upload keeping our videos together and uploading them so they are easy to access and availible to look at.

What technologies need careful planning?
Using the camera when filming needs careful planning for booking equipment
because you cant use the camera in the rain. You also need to plan what your doing and what your going to film to ensure your doing the right thing and get everything done that needs to be achieved. Editing also needs to be planned to have a rough idea of your film/opening which also helps when filming.

Were there any times you had to do something again because you didnt do it correctly?



What have new technologies allowed you to do that old ones didnt?