Evaluation Question 6:

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

The use of technology helped with the process of constructing our finished product in lots of ways. We were able to use technologies we are used to and others that we grew more comfortable with using.

This a picture of the kind of digital camcorder we used for actually filming our material. It's size and the fact that it is portable made it really easy to use it in many different places, including on a roof. These cameras are very useful for producers on a low budget and the the small LCD screen saves time and makes it easier for us to view the material we filmed straight away and overwrite what we wanted so we didn't have to waste film. One problem was that it was quite an old model, however this was because none of the members of our group had their own digital camcorder they could offer, so the school's cameras were fine. We also used a tripod to keep the camera still and at the level we wanted while allowing us to pan and tilt neatly.

We used Apple Mackintosh computers to edit, update our blogs, find pictures, research our genre ETC. We also used a scanner to scan in original pictures of our storyboard to our blogs. This was useful in showing us how our initial ideas changed into the final product and how some of the first ideas seemed unrealistic or other ideas would work better.

This a picture of iMovie, which is the software we edited our material on. The labels on this picture shows you how you can use iMovie. When we learned hoe to use iMovie properly, we found it relatively easy to upload, crop clips, rearrange clips and make our opening into how we wanted it to look.

We used quite a few websites for research and adding things to our blogs. Youtube was very good for finding influential films that we wanted our film to take some elements from (shifty). For the titles in our opening, we found a font on Fontspace.com that worked very well with our opening, we decided to find a font online because the default fonts on the Macs aren't edgy or different.We used blogger to record our progress and research. It is a quick and easy way of adding in pictures and videos and we can edit the posts to make additions and put in details of what we did and how. This was a more sufficient way of keeping all the work together and it is easier to focus visually.