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

2. Blogger
Blogger was used throughout the whole project in order to
record ideas/plans to show evidence of how our final outcome
was produced. Various technologies such as:
Prezi, Youtube, Flipagram and Fotor were incorporated into blog
post as apart of exploration of different medias.
Blogger was a main priority in our project as the website allowed
us to easily keep track of our continuous progression and
evolving creativity.

3. Prezi
Prezi was included into our blog as a multimedia technique to
enhance the creativity of our ideas. As a start we used Prezi to
present our teen film storyboard which was useful to show our
clear plan of how we was going to create our final opening step
by step.
Prezi was a form of media that we incorporated throughout our
blog to present our intentions from filming in a specific location
to our individual progression posts.

4. Cameras
A JVC camera was used to film throughout the whole process of
the project from the task of the shot by shot remake to
producing our final film opening. Other cameras used were a
digital camera and flip camera which were used to capture
where/what we was filming to upload onto the blog showing a
steady progress.
In order to prevent the JVC camera from shaking a tripod was
used which allowed us to achieve ‘still’ filming and a clear focus
on strong angle shots that were used. However the tripod was
not used for shots such as ‘worms eye view’ as this angle
requires capturing footage close to the ground.

5. Final cut pro
Final cut pro was a second stage of creating our film opening.
Seeing as we knew this was going to be a priority as apart of
finishing our outcome we had experience of using the software
when producing our premliminary and shot by shot task.
Final cut pro was useful for finishing touches to our filming for an
example; motions, soundtrack, independent idents and
transitions were added in order to bring the final outcome
together. In regards to how our ident was created, we used
Motion we challenged our creativity of how a production and
distribution icon should be made.

6. Creative commons/Soundcloud
Creative commons and soundcloud are search engines we used to find
copyright free music for our non-diegetic soundtrack for ‘Making the cut’.
Due to downloadable music being illegal, both of these software were safe and
legal giving us the opportunity to search freely for any type of soundtrack that
was best suited for our film.
Creative commons reduced our risk of using a copyright soundtrack. If we were
directed to YouTube through creative commons then we would use Clip
Grabber in order for the soundtrack to be imported into Final cut pro which
can be adjusted on the timeline of where we wanted to use that particular
soundtrack.
Seeing as we included two soundtracks into our opening we were strict with
how we were going to find the music and we put in effort to find the best non
copyrighted track which would fit our opening. Creative commons and
Soundcloud were very ideal and in future would definitely use this as apart of
any media project.

7. YouTube
YouTube was used in a minor aspect throughout the project.
We mainly used the search engine for apart of our planning and a research
of ideas however we also uploaded our original animated storyboard onto
YouTube in movement which clearly showed our idea of how our final film
opening would be.
We did this to give the viewer a prepared idea of what to expect when
everything was completed, In comparison we also used YouTube to upload
our final film as we knew the search engine is popular we used our
initiatives and thought this is a useful way for our audience to view our film
and leave feedback on what they thought about it.
YouTube was very useful in all aspects from researching to uploading our
own videos, this is a very good way to connect to other people and to find
out what they think of your creations.

8. Motion
Motion was used to create our production and distribution
idents. In order to prevent copyright from happening we created
our own idents which also challenged our creativity to another
level.
As a group we had difficulty in how to create our own ident from
the beginning so we used templates which gave us a head start
and from then the ideas began to flow resulting in us creating
‘Dreys Productions’ and ‘Chrome Entertainment’.
Motion helped bring our standards of professionalism
highly, because if we used an ident that was already created this
would be classed as copyright as well as us restricting our
inventiveness.

9. Clip grabber/Audio converter
Clip grabber was used to import our soundtracks into Final cut
pro which allowed us to have the sound over the film opening.
We originally found the tracks on creative commons which then
led to us using clip grabber as a final stage of having our
soundtrack.
Audio converter helped us change the format of the soundtracks
which we originally downloaded. Audio converter allowed us to
be compatible with the program we were using which made it
easier for use to add/remove any sound we wanted.