What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt a lot about different technologies from the process of constructing our media product. As with some technologies I haven’t used before and I was new to it so I had I went through many trials and tribulations in order to get things right. As I was the Editor of our media product, I had to make sure that our vision for the product was met, and I would work my hardest in order to achieve the final product and succeed in all areas. As I was used to using normal desktops and laptops, using the Apple Mac was a challenge as many things are different so I had to adjust during the whole process. The first problems we came across was when we had finished logging and capturing the footage, and we were dragging the clips we didn’t need to trash. After deleting the unneeded clips I continued with the editing then left the editing suite. When I next came to edit again I realized that I needed one if the clips that I had put in the trash, but it was too late as the trash had been set to empty every day. With this I learnt that next time I would create a folder of ‘unneeded files’ and drag all the files I didn’t need there to save time in the future.
With shooting the footage we had some ups and downs, for our preliminary task we chose a PD170 Video Camera to shoot the footage. This was heavy, large and quite inconveniencing as it required two people to carry the equipment. When we went to take out the camera for this task we asked Matt the camera distributor if there was any other cameras we could take that weren’t so bulky. He gave a small and portable handheld Samsung video camera with the tripod, that was much clearer than our previous camera and it was also much lighter. With this situation I learnt to think ahead and prepare and decide what would be better for our product. As camerawoman I learnt to shoot different angles and positions, I also learnt to shoot extra shots so I wouldn’t have to shot again and lose continuity.
Being the editor I learnt and picked up many techniques and tricks along the way. For example, I learnt how to add credits and put effects on them. I also learnt how to add image control for making the clips black and white, to add music and many other aspects. This would be helpful if I needed to edit any other product in the future as I have mastered most of the basics during this process.
We used many online technologies including:
Blogger: This was the website we used the most as we put all our coursework and finished products on here to be marked. Without this website it would be difficult to reach our work. We used this website for our group blog which was linked to individual blogs and vice versa.
Google/Googlemail account: To login into our Blogger account we needed to have a google mail account. I noticed that we needed this account to access many websites and they were all linked such as YouTube, Bubbl.us and Scribd. The Google search engine allowed us to search the web for research concerning genres, film research and many more general things.
Final Cut Pro: This is an editing software application that was used to edit the preliminary task and our opening sequence. Using this at first was confusing and difficult but as I became used it, it became easier along the way. This was another one of the applications we used the most as without it, it would have been impossible to edit.
Scribd: This was used to upload Microsoft Word documents and is one of the world’s most famous and largest social publishing and reading site in the world. It gave our blog a extra more formal look to it and was helpful as sometimes we needed to put tables up for example, the shot list and we couldn’t copy and paste this in Blogger so Scribd helped us in this area.
Incompetech: This website contains Royalty Free Music and we used it to search and find our music for our opening sequence. We couldn’t use a soundtrack from an artist or a movie as this would be copy right, so we worked through the website trying different sounds until we found the right one.
Facebook: This is the world’s most famous social networking site and currently contains over 500 million active users. We used this to make our fan group page for the sequence so we can have feedback from our friends about their views on the product.
Bubbl.us: This was used to create a brainstorm in which we needed to plan out our story ideas. Bubbl.us is very easy to use and you just write what you need in the boxes and it does the rest. This is way more effective than doing it on paper so this website was helpful.
Paint: This was used to create our Production Logo called ‘Trio Productions’, and I also used this to copy and paste pictures and put them onto blogger when the image couldn’t be uploaded directly.
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