Evaluation Question 6

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

As the cinematographer I learnt to film using a small cannon HD camera, this included zooming in and out, recording and simply taking still images, the quality of the footage was excellent as the camera had great steadiness even for the shots that I filmed without a tripod.

 I used a tripod whilst filming pan shots,taking still images and tracking movements  . The advantage of using a tripod was that it helped extremely with shots that needed to be carried out smoothly and added a sense of continuity. The disadvantage of using a tripod was that it took a while to fully set it up and was a bit of a hassle to carry around.

Other footage such as the shot of the stairs was done without a tripod (hand held).

(Hand-Held shot:  A shot filmed with the camera not on a tripod but instead held by the camera man, often whilst walking.  This makes the shots seem quite shaky.  This can make the audience feel the scene is more realistic, or can make us feel like we are part of the action.)

The camera we used was a Sony HDR - CX250 HANDYCAM and  the tripod used was similar to this

  

Google was our main search engine , we used this to find a variety of images needed for our blogs, logo and props. I am fairly comfortable in using Google and so didn't have to learn anything  new to use it.

Blogger was where our research and planning  ,main product and  evaluation were posted to, it has many features available to use which make each post different and more interactive with the site. I learnt to use the features which were available and tried my best to vary each post.

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For our main task we used computers to update our blogs , do research and upload our footage whenever we needed to . The advantage of using computers rather than a mac was that I was used to all of the software and programs and didn't really have to learn much to use it.

Our editor Bradley used you tube to keep the group updated on the progress of the editing of  our opening sequence, we was able to use the embedding code to embed the you tube clip into a post  on Blogger. You tube is a familiar website used by most people in the world, It is a easy way to view , comment , upload videos and much more.

For our soundtrack we used a loyalty free website, As our college computers restricted me in downloading files from the internet , I searched for our soundtrack using you tube and was able to embed the video into  a post. 

We used Sony Vegas to edit the opening sequence, we learnt how to edit clips with colour correction, add sound ,cut clips,  add special effects such as the printing of our credits and speed up and slow down certain clips.

We also learnt how to use adobe after effects to create a professional company logo for our opening sequence.
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