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

Editing On The IMac

We learnt a lot when using the Mac's as it was the first time using them. We had hundreds of effects and editing options available to us aswell as free copyright music that the Mac already consisted of. Although the Mac seemed hard at first we continued to play around and become familiar with it. In the end we found the software on the Mac easier and more effective to use than Adobe Premier Pro. The Mac also improved the quality of the production as it gave a better picture from a HD camera.

HD Camera ( Panasonic HDC-SD80 ) And Tripod

Again this was another product we wasn't familiar to. In previous filming we used a basic SD camera which was ok for filming still shots however struggled with movement shots such as pans etc. This all changed when using the HD camera as it filmed movement shots very well and also gave a better quality image throughout due to being HD. The Tripod was also a well used item in our film. This allowed such movement shots to be filmed as the Tripod consists of a ball joint pivot , which in effect allowed the camera to move more freely.

Google

Google was our main search engineer. We used Google mainly for research purpose's i.e characters etc. Google gave us plenty of information we needed and as a group we found we used Google more than we thought we was going to.

Blogger

I was also new to Blogger. This was the website where we had to record all of our research, planning and filming to give as proof that we had done it. Blogger was very easy to use which allowed images to be updated very easy however we did have some problems uploading video clips to it. Blogger  was the first blog i had used , but i was impressed how you could change all of your layout, background, font etc.

Digital Voice Recorder

We used the digital voice recorder during evaluation 3 where we created a voice over for our film. This device was very use full and unlike other recorders it recorded clearly so when it was played back , it was very easy to understand what we where saying. However we did have some small problems with getting to grips with how the device worked.

Youtube

I used youtube mainly for research on other horror film in the form of horror trailers. However i aslo used youtube to add annotations to our film as part of an evaluation exercise. This was the first time i had added annotations to a film clip via youtube, and I'm sure now from doing this exercise it shouldn't be a problem to do in the future.