Evaluation-Question 6 (Gabrielle Chambers)

Evaluation-Question 6

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

In the making of our product we used multiple technologies which some where new to us and some we had used before. However we all had our best shot at understanding our technologies and had many practices with them as well.

The four main technologies we used where the camera we used; this camera was a HD camera borrowed from our school. At first it was difficult to use and we has to have a few practices with it but we soon got the hold of it. This was the first time any of us had used a HD camera before so we learnt new skills such as how to attach the camera to the tripod, zoom in and out without it looking to jumpy and more. Unfortunately we did find it quite difficult to control the amount of light the camera was taking in, this especially became a problem during our sunset scene.

The second main technology we used was the tripod, this allowed us to manoeuvre the camera smoothly and easily. This really helped when filming the sunset as we where able to get the pan we wanted across the horizon. Also it meant the camera was level in our shot and we where able to get great shots with the tripod aswell. However unfortunately the tripod was a bit stiff than we would have preferred so therefore in the sunset pan it ended up being a bit jump from where we tried to get a smooth transition.

The third main technology we used was the Apple Mac, We used this to edit our film. We used imovie to edit our final film. We had all used imovie before in previous media tasks, so therefore we already had some skills from this piece of software. We learnt how to add transitions in smoothly and make them shorter and longer, we also learnt how to split the clip to make editing the clip much easier.

The final piece of technology we used was blogger, blogger is a internet blogging site where we posted all of our coursework. this enabled us to keep our coursework in the same place we where also enabled to keep it organised so we knew what we needed to do and what we`d done. we learnt many skills from this as none of us had made a blog before.