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

1. Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
While producing this film I gained experience in several forms of software and technologies that I
hadn’t used before. These include Adobe Premiere Pro, Mixcraft, go pro cameras and blogger.
We used Adobe Premiere Pro for editing our film; I had a little experience before with this product
from the preliminary task. This product excels over other simple video editors such a windows
movie maker as it retains the simple to use functionality but has many more features such as colour
correction, slow motion, more titles and lots more effects.
Mixcraft is the software we used to create the sounds and music for our film, before this task I had
never used Mixcraft. I found the drag and drop style use of Mixcraft very easy and quick to use, the
software also came with 1000’s of copyright free sounds and you are able to import your own
sounds which made the software very useful as we did very minimal hunting for the required
sounds. The software also allows for the importing of video so you can sync up the video and music
with minimal effort.
We used Go Pro cameras for the point of view shots. We have never used the camera before and
found it very simple to use. It allows the user to attack it to either a head band type rig, a harness of
a helmet which allows the user to film activities while keeping the hands free. This allowed use to
film a shot of me running from my point of view, we used the headband mount for this as it was the
only mount we had. The device is very user friendly with 3 buttons; on/off, record and the menu
button, this keeps the device simple to understand.
Blogger was used to keep a record of all the activities we had done for this project, at first I found
the sites a bit complicated to understand but soon got the hang of it, I find the published blogs very
difficult to read and see the barriers between different post which means it can be very off putting
to use. In terms of posting the blog the process is very simple and you can easily import videos,
pictures and embedded links from other sites. Amongst the site I believe some of the links don’t
function as you’d think they would, for example, there is an overview link which takes you to the
number of views your blog has had, which I find very misleading.
I feel these products have a large effect on the media industry as it allows anybody to easily craft
and produce a professional looking film with very easy to use and very accessible software and
hardware. The Go Pro also allows for different types of techniques to be used for the film industry as
it allows the users to get action shot that we’re otherwise very hard to do.
For the all the new technologies I learned how to use them through trial and error, I found this
experimenting with the technologies allowed me to discover techniques that I would never have
knew existed.