Evaluation Portfolio 6

Evaluation Question 6:

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

One of the first things we learnt to do, was how to use the cameras. We learnt to how to use the zoom and how to find our clips we had just filmed, so we could watch it back and check whether it was okay to keep and use in our work or if we had to re-film.

I found this easy to pick up and felt comfortable filming. firstly we used our newly learnt skills to film our preliminary  task. As it was our first time actually filming and using the camera, it was not the best filming it the world, as we also was holding the cameras to film.

This is when we learnt to use the tripods, we used these to film our film opening. We learnt how to set the tripod at the right hight and how to attach the camera to it, and how to move it around to follow people. We did not have access to the tripods in our preliminary task, so we could not use it.

By using the tripods, found that our filming was much smoother and less shaky. We first used the tripod when we were filming our mise-en-scene task, as we had no one to hold the camera and we could not find anything to rest it on. This helped use become more comfortable using it before filming our final product.

Although we used the tripod when we were filming our opening, it was still a little bit jumpy, so we still need to perfect this.

We use the iMacs for our blog accounts, and to edit our film opening and to do our research before filming.

We used iMovie the upload our filming, this was fairly straight forward to use. Firstly we were shown how to use the program to upload our preliminary task, it was fairly easy to pick up the step of how to upload. 

The we were shown how to export our filming from iMovie to final cut pro, this to was also fairly straight forward. 

Once we imported it to final cut pro, we were shown how to cut and move our filming around, so we were more comfortable to use it when it came to editing our final product.  

When we were editing our final film opening,  we taught ourselves how to get the wring up over our filming and how to use the effects the change from one scene to another and, we even learnt how to upload our institution clip from youtube and how to import songs from both garage band and youtube.

We use garage band for a song in our film opening, Megan and Chantelle, both used garage band to do this for our group. We did not use this in our preliminary task, because it was relevant to use.