Evaluation Activity 6 (Draft)

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

We have learnt many skills and tricks about using technology during the process of constructing our film.

Firstly, We used a 'SONY' camera to film our introduction. We learnt how to zoom in and out and how to focus to provide maximum quality to our shots, including making our shots stand out and be more defined. We also learnt how to use simple functions such as watching the shots you have just filmed.

We have also become familiar with the rule of filming such as not letting the actor lead the shot, but almost having the camera pushing them forwards and the 180 degree rule which is where filming only take place within an 180 degree angle which allows the audience to have a greater sense of the location of the scene.

During the editing phase of our film, we learnt how to use an Apple Mac and we all got used to how they work and function. We also learnt some tricks such as keyboard shortcuts and how to do print screen on Apple products.

We used iMovie to put all our shots together and make necessary adjustments. We learnt how to cut and split shots and put text over our footage in order to put our production company name, actors' names and film title on our film. We also had to put non-digetic and digetic sound into our film which to begin with, was difficult as we had to match the sound track's beat with the action going on in the shot, but eventually, we overcame that. The bit where we have our protagonist 'Sophie Reilly' caused problem as well as she was speaking to quietly, but we overcame that by adjusting the volume and dimming the background noise.

By using livetype we learned lots of skills about animating a title using confusing software, however after lots of attempts we finally made the production company logo for 'Illuminations Productions' seem to illuminate which emphasises the title as well as seeming as if it were typed appearing letter by letter.

We have also learned how to use this software…Blogger! We have all produced our blogs and posted relevant information about the progress of our film introduction and other pieces of work. We can all now use Blogger efficiently and have learned that blogging has become a much larger phenomenon in todays society.

We used green screening when creating our animations, which took numerous attempts. Creases in the green screen proved to create discolouring in the shot whilst we were editing, as well as this, shadows and incorrect lighting also caused colouring problems.

We have learnt a lot during the process of making our film, it will ensure us that we will take less time to work our way through using technology as we now know lots of tricks and short cuts to help us further develop our knowledge.