Coursework EvaluationQuestion 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this project?

What different types of technology did we use?

Media formats (on the internet) to present research

and evaluations:• Images/picture•Slideshare.com•Prezi.com•Video•Slides.com•Emaze.com

Adobe Premiere – for putting together and editing our Pre-Lim task, feedback and our final film opening.

Internet – for research into existing film openings and credits on YouTube. Also for research into information such as film production and distribution.

Video Camera and Tripod – to film our Pre-Lim task, feedback and the opening scenes of our film.

Adobe Premiere – editing software

At the start of the course I had no idea what ‘Adobe Premiere’ was therefore I would have had no experience using it. However when we’d got to grips with the basic tools used on it, I was fine with using it but I also wanted to learn more complex ways of editing on it. In order for us to learn more about the software, we had practise using it when we filmed our Pre-Lim task and feedback as we had to edit the footage more. This helped me widen my knowledge of how to cut and add in media along with extra scenes ready for our final task. We also learnt how to add titles, sound and even how to turn the scenes from colour to black and white.  By learning all of this we were able to move onto editing our final film opening as we were pretty confident on how to use the software by then.

Camera/Tri-PodAt the start of the course I had very little knowledge of how to use software such as Adobe Premiere’ or how to even create and manage a blog. However, throughout the course I have learnt many new skills including how to film and edit a whole film opening in Premiere.Because I own a camera myself, I had quite a good knowledge on how to use it to film and create different effects with it. However I had to learn how to create certain effects such as panning and a range of different shots as we needed to use a wide range in our final film opening. This then helped us when we were filming because it meant we had a good knowledge of the types of shots we needed and how to create these effects.We also used a Tri-Pod to film a number of the shots such as the establishing and long shots to make the shots seem still so the audience could see everything in the shot clearly. Before the filming process I had no experience working with tri-pods so I learnt quite a lot when we were filming with one such as using it for long shots so you could see everything clearly as it was still.

A range of media formatsBefore the course I had good knowledge on how to use a wide range of presentation formats online including Prezi and PowToons. However, with a bit of research I was able to find a number of other different presentation websites which were Emaze.com and Slides.com. This helped us as a group because then we would have a wider range of media formats we could upload onto our blog. Before the course, I had no idea how to upload ‘Powerpoint presentations’ online until we were introduced to slideshare in which broadened my knowledge and introduce me to how to embed links to share onto the blog.