evaluation

1. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT
ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES
FROM THE PROCESS OF
CONSTRUCTING THIS
PRODUCT?

2. Film camera.
• Using the film camera proved to be a challenge at times. One example would be
the tracking shot we achieved in the first section. This was created due to the
small car that was made with a motor to pull along the camera which was secured
onto a 4 wheeled cart when attached to the car by string. We then stuck down
curtain rails to allow the car to be pulled in a straight line. Even though the first
few attempts were hard to get, as we had to make sure all the scene was in shot,
we believe we achieved a successful tracking shot.
• Another time the camera was hard to use was when we had to get the close up
shots of the science equipment. This was hard as we had to keep the camera still
to get the effect we wanted. Keeping the camera still when we created a high
angle shot was hard as we had to keep it balanced. Even though this was an
obstacle we over same it and achieved the shot we wanted.

3. Adobe premier.
• Before I started Media I had never used adobe premier. Due to this it
proved a challenge to learn the skills to make it effectively. One problem
that we encountered was trying to make sure all of our footage flowed
easily. As we didn’t film our footage in order of appearance, it was hard to
cut it and then make sure it all made sense. However after a few attempts
we achieved the edit that we wanted.
• Another problem we found was trying to animate our production
company logo. We found a green screen smoke effect that we were able
to use that we wanted to add over the image. As we didn’t know how to
do this at first it proved to be a problem to find out how to achieve the
effect we wanted. After looking at a few youtube tutorials and asking the
technician, we were able to get what we wanted.
• I now know how to use basic tools on adobe premier such as cutting and
adding titles.

4. Click the title drop down menu Select ‘default still’
Choose the name of your title The screen will appear like this where
you can type what you want and add
different fonts, colours and styles of
writing

5. K’nex car.
• In our opening sequence we wanted a tracking shot. Early on we
found out that it would be a problem to create a good clean
tracking shot with the equipment that we were able to use. Due to
this we had to think of alternatives to create a good tracking shot.
Again, we looked on YouTube and Google to look for ideas that
would help us. One video we saw was a man using a small remote
control car, this inspired us to try out this technique. As no one in
our group had a remote control car that was stable enough for us
to place a camera on top of, we decided to create a car out of
k’nex. This was hard to create at first because we had to make sure
the car held the weight of the camera. This was not going to
happen so again we had to think of an alternative. We found a small
4 wheeled cart that the camera could be attached to that could be
pulled along by the k’nex car. This was a successful idea as it helped
us achieve the tracking shot we wanted.

6. Photoshop.
• Working with Photoshop has been a struggle. When creating out production
companies we had an image in our heads that we needed to create. However
when we actually came to create our production company logos we discovered
that it was harder to actually make our initial ideas. For example creating our ‘test
tube productions’ logo was difficult as we had to find an image that was exactly
what we wanted which took a lot of time to find. we then had to edit it the way
we wanted to make the writing look like smoke which none of us knew how to do.
We looked on YouTube for tutorials and after finding on that we wanted to found
out that making it look like smoke was easier than we originally thought. Using
Photoshop has made me realize that it was a really useful piece of soft wear to
understand as it can help make things look more creating and visually appealing.