The document summarizes the technologies and equipment used to create an opening movie scene, including a digital video camera, tripod, iPod Touch prop, Apple Mac computer, and iMovie editing software. The camera provided good filming quality and was easy to import footage to iMovie. The tripod helped keep the camera stable. iMovie was initially challenging but became easier with practice, allowing the creator to learn editing techniques like adding sound, arranging clips, adding text and transitions.

1. What have ilearnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? By Zachary Goodchild

2. Here is the camera I filmed my opening scene with... I found this video camera very easy to use, and found the filming quality was great. When I filmed my preliminary film I used a non-digital video camera, where as this one has a digital storage system. This was an improvement as it was much easy to import what I had filmed onto iMovie (the film editing software I used. If I were to film another movie I would definitely use this camera again.

3. This is the tripod I used to keep the camera still... This tripod was very suitable for its purpose. While using this tripod I found it had many different settings you could adjust it to. It could extend its legs to 3 different lengths and you can change the head trajectory vertically and horizontally. I only filmed the POV shot and the boy’s memories without this tripod so it was very useful.

4. Technologies used as a prop... To the right is a cropped screenshot from my opening scene, where the boy uses an iPod Touch. This prop was used to show the boy putting on a song which stayed on for the rest of the scene. I found that this didn’t completely go to plan as it was meant to be clear him and his girlfriend were the background, and he chose a song from the folder ‘Mine and Abi’s song’.

5. What equipment and software did I use to edit my opening scene? To the right is the Apple Mac I used to edit my movie with its built in software ‘iMovie’. When I started to use this software I had to figure everything out for the first time but this program made it very easy for a beginner. However, as I used it my skills still increased and I developed tricks such as transitions. In terms of time, I improved greatly and when it came to actually editing my final product I was very swift.

6. Editing techniques I developed using iMovie... Adding sound to movies. Arranging my movie on the time bar. Adding text to movies. Adding transition to movies.

7. And more! I had to adjust the levels of audio. Such as when dialogue came in and the soundtrack ducking in and out. Editing a certain passage of film, text over it, or sound in certain ways.