1. Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
While makingourfilmopeningwe have learnthow touse a camera effectively.Thisinvolved
learningaboutthe differentshots,anglesandmovementsthatyousee inall films.We neededto
practise these typesof shotswhichwe didinour preliminarytask.We’ve alsolearntthatwe needto
do the same shot a fewtimes sowe can geta shotwithouterrors.
Editingwasanotherlarge part of the taskas itletus putshots inthe right orderand delete any
unnecessaryshots.We hadneverusededitingsoftware before apartfromourpreliminarytaskso
we neededalittle helpforafewthingssuchas addingtext.
Bloggerwassomethingeveryone inmygroupused.Ithelpedtokeepeverythingorganisedandneat.
We hadneverusedbloggerbefore soittookussome time to getusedto it. We were able to
commentoneach other’sblogstoletthe othersknow if theyneededtoaddsomethingorjustto tell
themsome more informationthatmaybe useful tothem.Bloggerallowedustouploaddocuments
withease thatyou can viewonthe bloginsteadof beingtakentoothersites.
YouTube was usedto get ourfilmontoour blog.We uploadeditfromthe editingsoftware to
YouTube and thenembeddedthe videointoblogger.YouTubecanletsomeone create anddistribute
a product suchas a filmforfree. (Minuscostof equipmentandsoftware.) Itcanmake it easierfora
single persontogettheirproductseenwithouthavingtofindaproducerand variousotherpeople
to make the product known.
Email was usedduringourtask so we couldorganise filmdaysandtimesaswell asgetdocuments
ontoour own blogsfromeachother.On myblog youcan findmyother groupmembersworkaswell
as my ownby lookingthroughthe linkstothe side.