Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the time I had to produce my product, I feel that I have experimented and learnt a lot through the uses of different technologies. 

 To record the footage for my film I chose to use a flip camera HD camera made to record footage/ easy uploads. I feel that this was a good idea to use as it was suitable to screw onto the tripod and also has a clear enough/ high quality recording. This was key for me as I needed the tripod to capture steady footage.

Another technology that I had also learnt about during the process of creating my film was the use of a apple mac and the programme imovie. I could see improvements of my editing skills every time I came back to edit further into my film. I experimented with cutting, enhancing, changing, fast forwarding and many other techniques to improve the smoothness of my film. Imovie was set out slightly complicated at first, but from research and practising into the format I found that it was something I ended up feeling a lot more confident in.
 Theres many stylist effects that I could of chosen to use, but I tried to keep it as realistic as possible and I feel that this worked well through my final outcome. In terms of the audio timeline, I had to play around with the backing track that I had chosen to use. I found a good backing track that was copy right free from my research it had also fitted in well with tension building, which not only from my survey is what the audience wanted/ expected but that is also what is used in existing films with the same genre as my own film.

 So, as I was editing I felt that the music was pitched to high and that it was too over whelming to start my film off. So, as a result of this, I edited the soundtrack to slowly fade in and out, as well as there being slight silence at the beginning. Because of the high pitch problem I looked at the editing skills and the imovie programme allowed me to make the track deeper fitting in with the footage and type of film a lot better. It also made the music less noticeable and not the first thing you concentrate on which is what I was aiming to achieve.

I believed it was a good idea to use a tripod to capture steady and high quality footage. I believe this was successful because with out the tripod you can see the difference and over all it does not look professional. Using a tripod also allowed me to capture different shot types as well as panning the camera smoothly at the same time again still giving it that professional finish. If I chose not to use the tripod I do not think that I would of achieved the outcome that I did.




I also used a number of different technologies which were online that I either didn't know existed until research or had little practise on. At first when using blogger to present my work I did not feel comfortable with at all. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing at all and almost as if I was never going to get my work done. However, now towards the end of my project I feel a lot more comfortable and feel as if I have changed my attitude completely from again, a lot of research and practising.
I learnt a lot from embedding things onto my blog, to looking at presentation skills, making sure that my blog looks clear, professional and has all the information I need on it with easy access. Blogger has become very useful in terms of storing my information and allowing my teacher to view it as well as others who may show an interest in my posts.

I used a lot of Powerpoint because I chose to mix the technologies together, for example, not only by putting my work into a presentations but also made it easier for me to paste pictures onto the format and save them as JPEGS which allowed me to post on my blog. I also made a number of presentations on powerpoint to show on my blog, in order to do this I had to use other technologies such as Slideshare, once I had made the presentation it allowed me to convert my work onto this technology then forward a link and it would appear onto my blog.

I also used a technology called Prezi, I had done this because I felt that it had allowed me to plan my production stages clearly including various information as well as pictures and different links. I felt that this programme helped me to keep order of my planning because at time, with a lot of different ideas it may of become very messy.

To conduct some of my research I chose to create an online survey. For this I chose to use SurveyMonkey which is a technology which allowed me to create a survey online and distribute it to people to fill out via a link. Not only this but it also notified me when someone had filled out my survey allowing me to keep updated on the new answers and evaluate/ compare them after.
Finally, I had chosen to use Youtube to publish my videos that I made myself on there and share via my blog, videos that I had created includes my final copy of my film opening, interviews with target audience members, voice overs of my film and others.
I feel that using Youtube allows easy access to people who view my blog, also it looks professional and neat when placed onto my blog, I'm also allowed to caption the video and write about it informing the viewer on what they're watching, also Youtube allows me to keep note of how many views my videos recieve and comments can be made by the public which is always constructive feedback for me to work from.