The document discusses various technologies the author learned about through creating a film project. The author learned to use Blogger to plan and post work online, making collaboration easy. Two DSLR cameras were used to shoot high quality footage. A tripod helped develop shot quality. Motion 5 was used to create title graphics, though it was initially difficult to learn. After Effects provided editing opportunities. Apple computers with necessary software were available. YouTube was used to post drafts and the final film for viewing. Overall, the process was educational and helped advance production skills.

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

2. Introduction
 The process of creating our film has been a long but
educational journey as we have learnt to use a variety of
different software, programmes and equipment. Also by
using these examples it has assisted in advancing our
production further because due to their use they have
increased the quality of our final outcome.

3. Blogger
 I was unaware of Blogger at the start of the course but after discovering
it, I very much enjoy using its online format as a place to publish all of my
work. We used blogger to post all of our initial planning, pre and post
production work as well as our final film.
 As I have previously stated, I was a first time user to the Blogger website
so it took me some time to adjust to working and posting on this online
platform. After a few main posts I felt and now feel comfortable using
blogger. One negative is that a majority of my posts were time
consuming as I would plan them before posting.
 Blogger allowed us to have all our work accessible online and therefore
made it very easy to share or find work in or group.

4. Camera
 We used two cameras to shoot our film, one Cannon 700D and one Nikon D5500.
These two camera helped us get a visually pleasing aesthetic for our film as their
high quality assisted in getting a good level of cinematography.
 One of these camera was my own and the other belonged to one of my group
members and we were both fully capable of handling the camera and using their
advanced technologies to develop or film further.
 Both camera are of a compact size and we always had them with us so we were
able to take advantage of shooting within peak times as we always had the
equipment easily available.

5. Tripod
 The Tripod was an essential piece of our equipment as it was helpful in developing
the quality of our shots.
 We had all previously used this specific piece of equipment and were aware of
how to use it and take full advantage of its abilities. From past experience we were
all able to input to capture the best possible shots, heights and angles during
filming.
 Using a Tripod is an essential piece of equipment and I would recommended it for
any practical camera work and I will use it again in any of my own practical work.

6. Motion 5
 Motion 5 is a Professional Final cut editing software for Apple products. Motion 5
is simply special effects and has powerful motion graphic tools that make it easy
to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles.
 We used motion 5 to create our title basis. This software was very affective as it
gave our titles a very unique aspect as we designed them in the style of a digital
clock but it also look fully profession even with a visual shake as if it was from a
digital clock face.
 Initially the software was quite hard to use but after some research and tutorials as
a group we discovered how to use the software programme.

7. After effects
 After effects is the leader in visual effects, motion graphics, animation and
compositing shots for film and television post-production under the Adobe
software.
 After effects was very good as it had a whole creative cloud that opened our
editing process to a whole extra amount of opportunities.
 We used After effects to edit the mass majority of our film and it was due to that
the way in which our final product came out in which as a group we were happy
with.

8. Apple Macs
 We used 21.5 inch Apple iMacs that were in our classroom and they had all of the
software downloaded we needed to edit our film and prepare it for any posting or
distribution.
 These computers were often available and we were therefore able to learn to use
the features well when needed.
 I would use these computers again as they were easy to use and had all of the
software I would need to create anything I could aspire to develop ond media
practical piece of work.

9. YouTube
 We used YouTube to post our Film and Film drafts on. YouTube is a website in
which people can post, comment, view and like videos all over the data base.
 In our group together we had worked with one another to create videos and post
them on there in our free time so we were comfortable and experience with the
platform.
 YouTube was very easy to use and essential in posting and making our films easily
available and I would use it again as it is an easy platform to use.