Evaluation question 6-What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this product?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this product?

The handheld style of recording without a tripod allowed us to add to the effect and atmosphere of certain scenes.

The camera can also capture film in larger. RAW footage which doesn’t compress the footage and maintains maximum quality.

We used the ability of manual focus to create artistic effect in several scenes.

The zoom allowed further scenes to hold quality and therefore viable for use within the movie apposed to poor-er quality cameras who may lose quality at range.

The tripod also was able to reach shoulder heights and was incredibly useful for over the shoulder shots due to its height and ease of rotating and angling.

The tripod was also equipped with a built in spirit level which allowed the camera user to level the easily and fast.
The tripod provided stability which increased the quality of steady and motionless scenes which showcased certain movements.
But the tripod broke and restrained its full capacity as the camera could no long rotate at speed due to the impairment.
The tripod was also less stable when fully extended and took up a lot of ground space which limited where we could place it and altered the expected plans.

The size of the camera made it very useful to carry around and use when neccessary, using this camera without a tripod enabled us to add a steady cam effect if needed or wanted to be put into our film.
This camera was used for our low angle shots during our film which helped as having two cameras gave us more options of shots too choose from. The low shots helped add more suspense to who the antagonist was in our film opening.
The problems of using this camera was that the battery power would sometimes cut out quikcly, so we made sure we had a fully charged camera before every trip we went out on.



This programme was used to upload our continuity task, it was accessable for our group and also a way to get feedback on the video from other people who use YouTube. Also allowed us to get feedback from others within the media class, also other people too see what they thought of the task. Problem we had is that we were unable to show case it in school as the website is blocked by IT. But the programme was useful as it allowed us to show our task and get feedback from others.
We also have uploaded our film opening onto YouTube which has also enabled us to share our film with others who study the same subject and doing a smiliar thing, getting feedback from fellow students and university students helped us re-edit or change certain things in our film which could have made it better.

This programme was used for the sound in our continuity task, we determined the sound on the basis of the emotions shown in the film, it helped express the emotions, so it was a good use of a sound bridge. We looked at different sounds available on the programme and how we could use them to good effect in any scene possible.

We used Facebook as our source for communication as well as exchanging numbers, we posted links, had debates and discussions about how/what we could do, also ideas were shared within our own group chat which was created. As well as sharing stuff we discussed days to meet up and do our filming or editing etc..
We also shared our continuity task and film on FaceBook, it showed our film to wider audiences which got people interested and had them questioning the plot, what the film was about and other questions like that.

Imovie was the programme used to edit out continuity task and our film. This software was useful as we were able to add all sorts of effects to jump shots into different scenes. Using this software was very good as the group on a whole learned new or more skills on how to edit scenes. The use of audio and clip adjustments helped us to make changes during the film, it was something useful as not all of us knew that it had things where we could change sound, speed of viewing, different colours and things that could change the scene. The problems which did occur were minor as we managed to figure out how to adjust the sound in certain areas of the film.


 We used a phone for our underwater scene, this was useful as it was waterproof and not damage was caused to the phone. The quality of the shots were good and gave us extra help towards our film and being able to shoot underwater gave us another view/angle for the scene. There were no problems using the phone and was an extra help for our group.

Blogger was the website used to create my blog, it was useful and easy to use and understand even though there was a little difficulty of trying to upload pictures that was quickly over come and using blogger was a nice experience and easy to use.

Tumblr was another site used to creat blogs, some people in my group used tumblr and found the experience interesting and good. They also had the same problem not being able to upload pictures at times but that was pushed aside as well. Tumblr is heavily pictured based blog which also encouraged the high usage of photos for the blogs.