EVALUATION QUESTION 6: WHAT HAVE YOU

LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE

PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

EDITING SOFTWARE

Before this project, the only editing software I was aware of

was Windows Movie Maker, so I was worried when I found out

we were using Final Cut Express, especially when I had taken

on the task of editing the preliminary. I found it difficult to get

the hang of at first, and I encountered many problems with

rendering and exporting the video clips, but I eventually got

used to it. However, the preliminary was obviously not as

advanced as our final product, so when it came to editing our

opening there were still things we were unaware of. But most

of what we learnt was self taught such as editing the lighting,

the transitions, the opening credits etc. However, I wasn’t

heavily involved with the typography and titling as I was

finalising everything in our research and planning, but I learnt

how to use Final Cut Express in the light of editing, cutting and

creating transitions.

SHOOTING

To film our opening, we used a

Sony 1000e video camera.

This camera was great at

capturing sound from far

distances and capturing any

shot we needed. It made our

opening look professional. I

was unfamiliar with cameras

as professional as these so

whilst filming I learnt how to

work the camera such as

editing the lighting, blurring the

scene, focusing on certain

things. I was already familiar

with some features but I just

wasn’t sure how to apply them

to this camera, but I learnt

quickly.

WEBSITES / BLOG

Getting the blog started up wasn’t hard, but customising it afterwards was quite difficult. I have a personal blog but not on blogger, so it was interesting to learn how to use this blog in comparison to other blogging websites. Our group knew that posting only text posts would only weaken our blog, so we posted our work through other websites such as Slideshare, Prezi, Powtoon, Slide.es, Issuu, Youtube, Mixbook. The variety of websites used makes our blogs look more interesting to look at as constantly reading text posts can be dull. Before starting this course, I was unaware of all of the above websites excluding Youtube, but while creating our product I learnt how to use these and share them to other websites. Although, I did find Slide.es quite challenging and confusing so I resulted in avoiding that particular one. My favourite website was Prezi, as it allowed you to create interesting and creative Powerpoint presentations very easily. It also allows you to include Youtube videos and voice over's which I found useful.