Evaluation Question 6

1. QUESTION 6
What have you learned about technologies from this
process of constructing this product ?

2. RESEARCH AND PLANNING

3. WHATWE USED
For the research and planning stage of our film opening we
used many sites to gather key information into the genre and
the type of film we wanted to construct for example with
YouTube we looked at clips of similar films or films of the
same genre as our film as inspiration for things such as
costume or character details or personalities.We used google
as our main search engine to find all of these sites and lead us
onto things such as amazon to find the spray paint we used
to make the gun featured in the film more authentic and less
fake. With IMDB we used that to look up similar films of our
genre and gain information as to how that genre does
generally at the box office as well as look up how other films
like ours that we gained inspiration for did at the box office.
We used Blogger In the research and planning stage to look
at other media students who had similar ideas to us and
other people who had done films of the same genre to see
how they pulled it off and what problems they faced so we
knew in the future how to deal with them.

4. CONSTRUCTION

5. EQUIPMENT
The Hardware we used in the construction of our film opening
was very limited in the sense we used a HD camcorder to
obviously film our media film opening, it was very easy to use
to a degree of point and shoot (as long as the shot is level).We
instead of using a tripod for the shots so they were not all
standard tripod shots for our film opening we decided to use a
steady cam set up nowhere near to the standard of the photo
of one to the far right but we used a steady cam set up in order
to gain some more unique angles and shots to make it seem
more disturbed.We also limitedly used a boom mic with a
stand because we were inside and didn’t have to use it as much
as we thought because of the lack of wind and the more use of
narration and music over the top of the film opening.We used
the computer to edit the film opening on which we found easy
enough to do and faced it with limited problems in our way.

6. SOFTWARE
The software we used in the making of our
film opening was mainly Movie Studio
platinum to edit the majority of our films,
we found this easy to use because of past
experience with the software and the
nature of it. We also used
Photoshop/fireworks for the titles and cast
names because we felt it would do a better
overall job then doing it straight from the
editing software because we could move it
about and use it elsewhere.

7. EVALUATION
The technology I used for the evaluation
process of my film opening was a mixture
of blogger, PowerPoints,YouTube and
Prezi. I found these very easy to use
because of past experiences with using
them as well as how generally easy they
were to use.

8. CONCLUSION
 Overall in the research, construction and evaluation of my film opening we used
many pieces of technology many hardware and software which helped to use to
try and make the best piece that we possibly could. Also it allowed us to try new
things with our media piece such as help edit the lighting , sound , camera shots
and add transitions such as fades into next shots as well as making it good
practice working on an actual media piece. Another thing is that by using all this
newer technology we hadn't used before it allowed us to do things we hadn't
before such as suing Photoshop photo shop, before but i used it several times
throughout this project on things such as experimenting with shots and doing
titles and the production logo.