I have learned about various technologies from constructing this product. I used websites like Blogger and Prezi to document our progress and embed documents. Software like Sony Vegas and Photoshop were challenging to learn but became easier with practice. Equipment such as cameras and microphones required getting used to but then became straightforward to use. Overall, the process taught me about both easy and difficult technologies and the importance of practice.

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

2. Planning and Research
We based our work on the social I also used Slideshare to embed YouTube was used to find videos
application named Blogger, on this website Word and PowerPoint documents for examples used in our posts for
we posted all our coursework made over onto my blog, this also made it presentations etc. and was also
the duration of the film making recording easier to record information and used to upload YouTube videos.
things such as updates, editing, quicker and simpler for our
presentations over conventions etc. coursework.
The website I used to create the I used Microsoft PowerPoint and Google was our main search
majority of my presentation was Prezi, Word to create documents to engine used for a range of
which is a panning presentation embed onto my blog using things during the stages of our
maker, this made it easier to record all Slideshare, this makes the post work e.g. using Google images
of our progress using conventions, easier to read and looks better to find examples for our work.
filming processes etc. and embed it presented.
onto our blog.

3. Construction
This was the camera we used for We also used a boom mic in our
filming the scenes in our opening, the production to capture important We used a PC from Novatech for the bulk
name of it is a Panasonic NV-GS500, sounds during the filming process of our coursework such as editing the
first using the camera was a little or to narrow down the range of scenes captured on the camera into our
difficult, but after getting used to it sound in order to capture singular film opening, I found this PC very simple to
using the camera was straightforward sounds instead of a whole range of used as I have had past experiences with
and simple and easily able to capture unwanted ones, at first I found PC’s and I also have one myself.
scenes from different angles and handling the mic quite a handful,
depths. but like the camera after a while of
handling it, I found it relatively
straightforward and easy.
To record our Foley sounds we used a sound booth, this made the quality of our Foley
sounds a lot better and more improved than it would if we had recorded them outside of
the sound booth, overall the sound booth was easy to use and access.

4. Further technology
The software we used for editing our scenes into our This particular piece of software is very difficult to
film, opening was Sony Vegas, at first I found using this use, and I am still learning all of the controls to use it,
software quite difficult, as I did not know how to use it, we only used this software briefly to fine tune our
but because the settings were straightforward, on-going logo for our film opening, but overall Photoshop is a
practise with this software made it easy to use over time. very technical and pained piece of software to use.
This website was very useful to us for downloading We used an external sound recorder to record our
non copyright soundtracks for our film opening, it Foley sounds, which include the slamming and sliding
was particularly useful because this website of a folder on a table, we found this straightforward to
contained a lot of old music, which had hopes of use and it helped better the quality of our film
contains the proper music our film opening needed opening.
which was slow jazz music.

5. Sony Vegas
The devices we used within this software includes transitions such as the camera
flash and fades in and out.
We used these devices to create more realistic scenes e.g. we used the camera
flash in order to make the scene look like it was taken from the coroner’s point
of view.
We used fades in and out to yet again increase realism and to show the passing
of time.

6. Lighting, Sound and Editing
Editing:
The tools we used within Sony Vegas were editing tools such as the transformation into black and white film,
this was used to increase the realism of our film to make it look like it had been produced in the 40-50’s, we
also used the camera flash edit to make some scenes look like they are taken from a coroner’s perspective,
after the first couple of weeks of using this software, using these tools became easy and straightforward.
Lightning:
The majority of lighting used within our film opening was natural lighting, as a lot of the scenes took place
outside, but some scenes, such as the train station scene, had artificial lighting, that was high key, i.e. the
streetlamp, other scenes such as the interrogation scenes contained low key overhead lighting as it was filmed
in a drama studio, getting the lighting right when we used artificial lighting was not easy because the
alterations had to be very small or else the murderer’s identity would have been revealed, although we
managed to get it right in the end.
Sound:
We didn’t use a great deal of sound within our film opening, as it was all mostly the narrator reading from a
script, the sound we did use was Foley sounds, which were recorded separately using an external recorder and
mic, this was simple to do and did not take much effort.

7. Evaluation
Overall, websites such as Blogger, Freeplaymusic.com, SlideShare, YouTube and
Prezi were simple, but very useful to use they both helped us greatly throughout
the course.
Technology such as cameras, boom mics, the computers, sound booths and
recorders were all very helpful, some such as the cameras and boom mics were
difficult to handle at the start, but practise makes perfect, others such as the
computers were easy to use because of past experience.
Software such as Sony Vegas was difficult to use at first because I had no
experience in film editing, others such as Photoshop were very difficult to use
because there were lots of technical controls and settings and I am still learning
on how to use the tool.
Overall I think the processes were very fun and took a lot of time and hard work
to complete.