evaluation question 6

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

The camera we used was a Canon digital camera. This camera was easy to use with simple instructions and this enabled us to film without any fiddly setting up. The camera also provided good Zoom tools allowing us to create some of our iconic main scenes such as the zoom on the newspaper clipping of ‘Hero does it again’ or the pocket watch. This zoom also assisted us with our sound as we used the sound of the zoom as part of our sound editing. After filming a scene we could immediately play it back on the camera and decide quickly whether the scene needed to be re-filmed and allowed us to correct any mistakes and create progress during filming. The camera was also hand held making it portable and easy for us to position to create different shots with in our film opening and because the camera was hand held we could create easy camera movements in our film. The memory was stored on an SD card therefore making it really easy for us to import and export out material as SD cards fit into most computers and if not can be used with a card reader. This also meant that all our material was also portable and easily transportable.

Blogger is what we used to post all our progress and information on. This allowed us to manage all our research and information easily and created a sense of order and organisation to our planning. This also made certain elements of our research easily accessible and easy to find within blogger. This website also allowed us to embed videos from YouTube onto the website using embed codes this allowed our influences and inspirations to be viewed on our blogs as we featured the videos we looked at. Blogger is also easily accessible as I was able to access the website on my phone so I could upload images from my smart phone and also edit a blog on my phone wherever I was which made more use of my time.

Youtube was easy to use as again it was easily accessible and I could get onto it on my smart phone allowing me to instantly look up an idea for research or inspiration on the go to add to my blog later on. Youtube also had the embed codes so the videos I did watch and use could be included on my blogger account so viewers can see and relate to my ideas and inspirations. I could also easily look up important research information such as opening credits to films, trailers for me to analyse and sounds so I could offer examples to viewers on what we would like to use in our film opening.

For editing we used Adobe Premier. This software was easy to use and was also easy to export and import video footage, images and sound. When editing using this software they offer and editing board which shows colour coded layers representing different sections such as added film, images and sounds. The software also allowed us to analyse our footage frame by frame making it easier to create match on action scenes and also include timed images.

For some ideas and planning we used Prezi. This website was easy to use and easy to register and use. This website allowed us to present and distribute our ideas in an interesting ways as Prezi offers different templates for us to use and make our work more pleasing to look at and the prezi’s themselves allow the viewer to interact with our ideas and this involves our audience more and helps create understanding.

To get some feedback from potential audiences and create awareness of our film opening to the public we used facebook. This allowed our idea to be presented publically and attracted audiences that would be interested in our film as people who were interested gave positive feedback and also constructed of similar age group and gender. Also allowing our focused audience to feel involved in the film making helps create interest and this will make our film opening more attractive and popular to viewers.

Glipho is another blogging website I used to create awareness of our film opening and help encourage feedback from our viewers. On this website I could upload videos and images and this content could be viewed by anyone else using the website. Using this website viewers can leave comments and feedback. The comments we did get were positive and interested in what will become of our film opening. With glipho viewers can also ‘share’ my blog using twitter facebook and their own glipho account. This gives our film opening a chance to be viewed by a more wider range of audience.  I used the two websites to get feedback so I didn’t seem biased and searched for a wide range of responses from different people so we can narrow down more popular ages groups that were interested and help give us a feel for our target audience.