What have you learnt
about technologies in
the process of
constructing this
product?
Cameras
Cameras
When starting the product I had never used
a high tec camera so the Sony HD 1000 was
new to me. I found out that using this camera
produced better high quality shots for our
film. From the preliminary task we used a
smaller camera and tripod which were easier
to use but don't create quite as good quality
as the bigger camera.
Editing
Final Cut Express
I had never used this piece of software before but it is a
very effective software to use for editing film. It was simple
to use and allowed me to produce a the film I wanted. The
use of effect tools to create fades throughout the film and
especially on titles. Another feature in this software we
used was key framing to sync the titles with the elevator
doors to add that extra effect. It allowed us to cut footage
we didn't need to use shots to improve the continuity of the
film. As well as this I could add sound and place effect on
this also to fade the volume up or down to certasin points
of the film for example when someone was speaking.
Social Networks
Facebook
We needed feedback on our film and because facebook is one of
the biggest social networking sites and many friends are on
facebook, we shared our video amongst facebook for people to
see and comment on and also share if they wanted to.
Google
On google I had never used blogger before and
its a useful site because we used this to post all
our research, film, story boards etc which you can
see every group members work also. This site
allows you to embed videos and other software
used for example slideshare onto your blog.
Another main part of google I have learned is
google docs. I have only every used Microsoft
word to produce documents but this is the same
that you can use anywhere.
Youtube
I already knew how to use youtube as it is a
video sharing site and this is what we used to
share our film for people to see.
Sound and Music
We used a range of websites and different things
to get music for our film but the main one we used
to find all our sounds was a website called
www.Freemusic.org which gave us a range of
sounds and theme music for our film. Also, we had
to record a voice over for the end of the two
minutes which we recorded using a high tec
recorder so that there was no interferences and
was a high quality sound voice over.