The document discusses the various technologies used at different stages of producing a project. During pre-production, Google Docs and Blogger were used for script writing and blogging. BeFunky was also used to create collages for casting posts. For the company animation, Blender was used to create a 3D animation. During production, PowerDirector 12 was used for video editing, various cameras were used for filming, and a Scarlett soundcard and microphone were used for voice recordings. Freesound.com and YouTube Audio Library provided sound effects and music tracks free of copyright issues. Overall, the document discusses the technologies explored and lessons learned about using various tools at each stage of a production process.

1. Q6. What Have You Learnt
About Technologies From
The Process Of Constructing
This Product?

2. Pre-Production
Script writing- Google Docs.
Google is not just a browser. It’s a whole new resolution. Google
have their own ‘Microsoft Office’. With Google docs I was able to
make my script as they already have script templates (As you can
see on the next slide.)

4.  Blog- Blogger by Google
Once again Google helped me out on this. By using their
application blogger, I was able to post and organise my pre-
production preparation. Including casting, story plot and so on.
There is a few things blogger could improve to allow post to be
better organised and presented, however it is a free of charge
blog so I had to find other ways of fixing those little issues.
I love great presentation specially when it comes to the layout
and how pictures are positioned in a blog. Blogger doesn’t
meet my standards of how pictures should be presented. You
can’t place pictures next to each other so to over come this I
found a website which makes collages. This new technology is
great! It allowed me to make my pictures better presented in
the context of the blog. I used a website called BeFunky. Its got
a photo editor and a collage maker.

6. www.befunky.com helped me present
my casting blog really well, I was able
organised little portfolio collages of my
selection of actors as you can see.

8.  SOUTHCOAST ENT. PICTURES institution animation
 For my companies animation I used Blender. Blender
is a professional free and open-source 3D computer
graphics software product used for creating
animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models,
interactive 3D applications and video games.
 For this little project in creating a high quality 3D
animation for the company I worked with my brother
who is a very talented technology guy.
 Working with him helped me learn how to make a
simple text 3D and how to move the camera in
blender to give it that sweep dolly shot of my
animation.
 I learnt that it’s not a simple process and that a lot of
detail needs to be taken into consideration such as
controlling the speed of the camera so it’s a smooth
run and the effect of lighting on the animation to
increase the 3D effect.

9. Production
 Movie Editor Software-
PowerDirector 12
 Camera- Mini iPad, SONY
Cyber-Shot HX300 digital
camera, NIKON D7100
digital SLR camera and
SJ400.
 Sound /Music- Scarlett
Studio soundcard and
micrphone, freesound.com
and Youtube Audio Library

10.  Movie Editor Software
To edit my movie I used PowerDirector 12 by cyberlink. It is the fastest and most powerful
video editing software. PowerDirector 12 takes video creations to a whole new level. Its got
incredible tools of which I didn’t have a chance to use it all in my production as there are so
many more to explore. Saying that, I did get to use great tools featured in this software.

11. I learnt that I can actually put titles over the
image rather then use the subtitles option for text
over the image. This is great because the subtitles
tool doesn’t have a great variety of fonts and
has no animations. With the titles I was able to
add animation to the text for better executed
credits over my image.
I also learnt that you don’t have to put all the clips on the same track. You
can overlap them and the clip on the lowest track will be the one shown
on screen. This prevents clips from being unnecessarily trimmed, if you trim
a clip it’s harder to edit it later if you wish to do so. Therefore, this is a great
feature. Comparing to iMovie which I used for my preliminary, that is not
possible. There is only one clip track and one audio track. On Power
Director you have multiple audio tracks, clip tracks and FX tracks.

12.  Cameras

13.  Sound
 Scarlett studio soundcard and microphone for
the voice-over recording.
In my first go at recording the over-voice, I recorded it
straight off my phone and to remove as much background
noise as possible I recorded it under a blanket. However, the
quality was still not satisfying.
Because I am a music technology student and have been
wanting a home studio for a while I decided to buy one. I
bought the Focusrite Scarlett Studio Pack which includes a
soundcard, a condenser microphone, a pair of studio
headphones and a music software.
On the right you can see my set up for the studio. Now, with
this high quality equipment I was able to record a clean
noise-free voice-over. Paring this with my high quality movie
editor software, PowerDirector, was a great combination as
the software is capable to connect to my studio gear and
record it straight onto the project on the recording track.
I didn’t know about this, when I found out I was quite happy
as it was easier for my actor to narrate over the final product
because he was able to watch it while recording. This
allowed precise timing and match of audio and image.

14.  Freesound.com
In some parts of my movie I needed to add diegetic sound to it, like in the scene where
Ethan is in bed I needed a diegetic sound of an alarm clock going off. Usually I get
samples off Youtube but when searching online I found and learnt about a website
called freesound.com where if you make an account you have access to a wide
range of different sound samples of which you can download and use for your
projects.

15.  Youtube Audio Library
 A sound track is extremely important,
however, its very important that you have
the copyrights to use a soundtrack. This
seemed to be an issue for my project as I
have not created my own soundtracks
and hold no copyrights to any
soundtrack. But then I found out that
Youtube has an audio library of songs
created by unknown artists and
producers which allow people to use their
music for personal projects and also for
publishing projects. There are no issues
with copyrights.
 It’s very simple, you can search what kind
of music you want and a big list appears
and you just need to download which
ever song suits your scene.

17. Conclusion…Well! I have learnt a lot about
technology through the production of this
product. Many things I already knew from
previous projects of mine but I definitely got
to explore a bit further with this bigger
project.