The student learned about various technologies through constructing an opening sequence for a product. They used a MacBook, camera, tripod, and software like Mahara, Garageband, and Final Cut Pro. Filming with the camera was easy as they had experience from a prior task, but Final Cut Pro was the hardest to learn as no one had used it before. While their company ident did not turn out as planned, it was a good first attempt. Garageband was easier since the student had prior music lessons, though it took time to find the right sounds. A voice recorder was used to add realistic Foley sounds.

1. Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from
the process of constructing this product?
Myha Reid

2. Throughout the process of constructing our opening sequence, we used different types of
technology such as a MacBook, Camera and different equipment such as a tripod and
software like Mahara, Garageband and Finalcut Pro. We first used the camera to film the
footage needed to create our final product. We found this easy to use as we had already
had experience using the equipment from our Prelim task. We used Mahara to record
everything we were doing in lessons and in the practical, I thought this was a good way to
refer back to when we needed any information such as camera shots and angles we had
learned in class for our practical shooting day. I definitely thought Finalcut pro alongside
Garageband was the hardest to use – with Finalcut pro, no one had experience with
handling the software so we had to learn all the tool from scratch and find different ideas
to create an opening sequence. We also used finalcut to produce the company ident –
this was especially hard because we had something so specific in mind about what we
wanted it look like, although it didn’t come out as what we originally wanted, we thought
it was a decent first attempt at a company ident. On the other hand, I had previous
knowledge how to use garageband from music lessons in high school so I already knew
what to do, it was finding the right sounds that would fit with our sequence and genre. It
took us about 4 lessons to find different sounds and create the soundtrack and be content
with it. We also used a voice recorder to make different sounds for our opening sequence
– for example we replicqated Foley sounds like walking and opening of doors which
helped to make our film seem more realistic and professional.