Evaluation Question 6

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

I have learnt a lot about technologies from the process of constructing this product. One of the main technologies I have learnt is iMovie for editing skills. I think that this is one of the most important skills because I can use this in the future and is a useful skill to know. I have learnt splitting clips, voice-overs, adding sound effects, adding text and transitions. We used all of these effects in our main product. One example of these editing skills is in our opening. We used a slow-mo effect in one of the scenes to build up tension. We used adding sound effects in the last few scenes of our opening. We added in the sound effect of Jack (Harry) shouting his brothers name. This was an important scene to our film and our editing skills helped us achieve it.

Another way I have learnt different technologies is by creating and setting up a blog on blogger. This has taught me how to set up and work my own blog. This also taught me such skills as managing and communicating. The blog has helped me keep up with managing my work.

I have also learnt a lot from using cameras for the preliminary task. We have learnt how the cameras work and we used them in our main task of creating a film. Using the cameras taught us about the different types of video files we could use for the editing. We also changed the type of video file so it would work for iMovie. I have also learnt the importance of a tripod when filming. The tripod helped us greatly in many shots. It was essential in every pan and establishing shot. Without the tripod we would have struggled in filming 

Through this task we also learnt more about doing research, for example researching different film openings on Google. This helped us in the research process of the task and we developed a better knowledge on how to research the different subjects through such medias as Youtube. 

Another skill I have learnt is that I have developed my skills at photoshop. Near the end of the task I had to create a poster to promote our opening. I used photoshop to create this which overall helped me to work a figure out some of the features on photoshop which I didn't know before. For example I have learnt a better knowledge in using different overlays so it would fit the pictures.