Harriet Bibby learned to use several technologies during the process of constructing her film product and evaluating it. She used websites like the UK Film Council, Box Office Mojo, and IMDB to research her film genre and target audience. For construction, she learned to use a digital camera, Movie Studio Platinum for editing, a sound recorder for Foley effects, and websites to find music. For evaluation, she used Prezi, Powtoon, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, a sound recorder, Movie Studio Platinum, blogger, and Slideshare. Overall, while some technologies like the digital camera and Movie Studio Platinum took time to learn, she found most were reasonably easy to use once she got familiar with them

1. EVALUATION 6.
Harriet Bibby.

2. The question:
What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

3. What technologies did I use
within…

4. Planning and research -
 Within my planning and research I used the internet as my
resource – this was obviously fairly easy to use as I use the
internet and different websites on a daily basis.
 I used the UK Film Council’s website in order to find
statistics of the UK’s favourite genres and films and related
this to my chosen genre.
 I also used the website Box Office Mojo and IMDB to
research further into my chosen genre to understand my
target audience.
 Before constructing my product, I also watched many DVDs
from my genre to understand what to include within my
opening.
 I also uploaded all my research onto my blog.This was new
to me as I had never used this site before, however, this
soon became easy for me to use.

5. Construction -
 During the construction of the film, I firstly had to get to grips
with the digital camera we used to film.At first this was fairly
difficult for me as I had never properly used one before, however,
after several attempts and practices I found this easier to use.
 I then used Movie Studio Platinum to edit and create the video.
Because I had never edited anything before, this was extremely
new to me and I often found it difficult to use.
 Our group also had to use a sound recorder and microphone to
create a Foley sound of the body being dragged to overlay onto
the video.This was reasonably simple and easy to use – we just
had to make sure we turned it on!
 We then again used movie studio platinum to add this sound to
our product.
 Throughout we also used multiple websites to search for music to
overlay onto the film.This was easy for us as we knew which sites
to look for and how to use them.
 We also had to continuously update our blogs during the making
of our film.

6. Evaluation - During each evaluation, I have used several different software's and hardware’s.
 Prezi is a website used to create animated presentations. I used this for evaluation one and found it
fairly easy to use, however, at times found the website to be slightly temperamental when inserting
images and videos. On the other hand, I really liked the fact that the site automatically saved your
work.
 Powtoon is a website again to create presentations. I found this difficult to use at first as the layout
of the site was confusing. However, I eventually got to grips with the features.
 I also used Microsoft word for one of my evaluations. This was extremely easy for me as I had used
this software many times before – however, sometimes as school this software ‘stopped
responding’ which meant that I lost my work several times.
 I have also used PowerPoint for one of my evaluations. Again, this was very simple for me to use as
I have used this software a lot.This software was also very reliable as it never crashed or lost my
work.
 For one of my evaluations I also chose to write a script (using word – this was very simple and easy
to use) and record my voice for this. (I used the sound recorder to do this which was also very
simple.) I then uploaded this onto movie studio platinum and used the snipping tool to take
screenshots from my opening - overlapping this with my voice recording. This was fairly easy for
me to do – however, I found that it took a lot of time as I couldn’t upload all the images at once.
 I also simply used blogger to upload one of my evaluations straight onto my blog.This was probably
the easiest software to use as I simple typed straight onto my blog.
 To upload some of these onto my blog, I had to use Slideshare. This was an easy software to use,
however, in school the filtering system stopped me from using this – the embed code would never
show. However, using this site at home was quick and easy to use.

7. Technical aspects -
 Lighting –Within our group, we didn’t have to create
the lighting used, we simply chose which time of the
day.This made it much easier for us whilst filming
and also created a more realistic atmosphere.
 Sound – we used Foley sound for the majority of our
opening. Although this may have been more difficult
than simply using the sound from the filming,
however, I believe the end result was much better.
 Editing – Movie Studio Platinum was probably the
best software we could have used.After getting to
grips with the setting, it was simple, fast and
effective for me to use.