The student learned how to use various technologies to construct their product. They used Blogger to create and update their blog, posting pictures, videos, and receiving tips from their teacher. They used iMovie on Mac computers to precisely edit video, adding titles, effects, and exporting clips. After Effects was used to create the production logo and intro with various effects. YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram were used to share the opening and collect feedback from an audience. Canon cameras on tripods were used to film higher quality footage for the opening.

1. Evaluation Activity 6

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

3. Blogger is the website we used to make our blogs, put up posts,
videos, pictures . It also enabled us to view our teacher’s blog
which was available to my whole class which gave us tips and
deadlines. I have learnt how to create and keep my blog up to date.
Each blog contains evidence of where I upload many pictures and
anything that is relevant to my project. They are in date order.
Blogger
iMovie
Websites/programs we used:
We used Mac computers for the editing process of our
product, this is professionally used and enabled us access to
many effects and tools to precisely edit and add titles to our
sequence.
This is a screen shot of me posting onto blogger, I
learnt how to construct posts and edit them after if
I felt they need updating or adjusting.
This is evidence
from a screenshot of
my editing process
on iMovie. We learnt
many skills with
editing over the task
process. I am now
able to import and
export clips, add text
and music and
precisely edit a film.

4. The ‘ Art of the Title’ is a great website which allows us to
browse many different film openings. It helped me decided
the order in which to add in my titles and what order is
generally used.
I looked at Opening sequence, Night watch. Which I took
inspiration and created a timeline to get an idea about the
ordering of titles in my own sequence, as this is a skill I did
not have.
Researching:
Process: Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application
developed by Adobe and used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television
production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing
and animation
After effects was the program we used to produce out Production logo/Intro.
I made a few other draft ideas with different effects before posting it to my blog. I feel this
was a successful program to use once I had learnt the appropriate stills. I also feel it gave our
production company a realistic and professional look.

5. I have frequently used YouTube during the course, as it is so diverse, it has allowed me to
also view different film openings, music tracks, production companies and past students
media product. We uploaded our opening to YouTube, to make it easily accessible for our
audience and therefore we are able to receive feedback for our evaluation purposes.
After uploading our final opening to YouTube, we all decided we wanted to
share our film opening with family and friends, with the aim to collect a
widespread opinion and feedback for evaluation purposes. We used websites
such as Facebook, which we all posted a link to friends which resulted in much
feedback, many liked the post and shared our link to their friends. Exposing
our opening to an even wider audience.
Websites/programs we used:
I also wanted to use popular picture posting app, Instagram, and
decided to post a screen grab with the link to our opening to my
personal followers. Many liked the posted and people were able to
comment their thoughts after having watched the video on
YouTube.
Uploading using
YouTube was
simple and easy!

6. Camera: Canon 700 D
We used my camera and scarlet's to film our opening, this
allowed us to film in higher quality and record footage at
the same time. This sped up our filming time and allowed
us to easily meet deadlines, sticking to our arranged
filming dates.
Tripod
We borrowed 2 tripods from school to be able to
achieve smooth and steady filming. We were able to
connect our cameras securely to this and film without
holding the camera the whole time. This was partially
useful for the performance scenes as there were many
outtakes and lots of footage to record.
Extendable legs, helped us film at our desired height.
This is me learning the camera
techniques for filming, This camera
was easy to use. With simple and
smooth zooming ability and an
attachment for the tripod.