Evaluation Question 6

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this produc

t?

Hardware: we used a digital SLR camera to do our filming. The first day of our filming we had a bit of problem using a professional camera as none of us was fully aware of its functions and features. There were a variety of settings that could adjust the lighting and the clarity of the picture. It had to be set to auto in order for it to work with the lighting and suit the settings. When we started filming we weren’t aware of the tripod which we came to realise about later. The shots that we did without a tripod, holding the camera in hand were very wobbly and not clear. This wasn’t visible on the camera itself but when we watched it on computer we realised that it hadn’t come out that well. However, when we filmed with a tripod it made the videos more stable and helped us to get clearer shots. During this process, I learned the importance of a tripod and how it makes the shooting easy and handy. The camera we used had a much better quality of shots then when we used an IPad. The quality was not as clearer and it had no feature to fix the lighting of th shot. The IPad was the mini step towards the using a professional camera. During the process of filming i also learned how to use a tripod, as when we started our filming we were filming everything by holding the camera in our hands. However, after learning about the tripod we used it to film which helped us get more stable and clear shots as compared to the shots we had dont without using the tripod. I was succesfully able to use a tripod for our filming.

Previously, for our preliminary task I used IMovie for editing on the IPad which had very less features compared to the windows movie maker that we used for our final product. At first, we faced some problems with the editing as we didn’t know many features that were there to use. Many of the transitions in the movie maker looked faked when we used them on our product however, I realised that editing was very time consuming and had to be done with full concentration. Th vido overall was good but i think it would have worked better for us if we edited on the macs instead of movie maker as the features which are provided on macs are not there on movie maker. Also, IMovie has more transitions that can be put in between to make the video look more effective.

I used many different internet sites such as: blogger, Prezi, YouTube. I was familiar with YouTube but I had never uploaded videos on it which was a new experience for me but it was not as much challenging. Before this I had never used blogger before. It was a totally new website to me and it was at first hard to get on board with it because of the things that couldn’t happen on blogger. I had to write everything on word and then copy paste it. I had also never used prezi before which was a new experince for me. Prezi has its own way of making things look more efective and attractive. Its similar to what we do on powerpoint but the layout is what stands out. Overall, the sites and editors that i used taught a few new things and some of which helped me to gain more knowldge about its use.

Overall, I learnt a lot about technologies in the process of constructing our final product. It was challenging at first but I found a way around it. I gained a bit more knowledge on how to use IMovie on apple and how to add different features to it. In terms of blogger, I learnt how to create your own blog and publish things to it. Whenever, I use all these technologies next it would be a lot more easier and smoother than it was the first time. After using all thse products and website to make our media product as effective i came to learn that its not an easy task to make a film as it has many before and after processes that need to be kept in mind while thinking to start filming. The little aspects of technology can effect the media product emmensly.