The document discusses the various technologies used during the process of creating a student production project. It describes how social media like Facebook was used for communication and scheduling between group members. A Canon EOS 600D camera was chosen for its video capabilities. A Sigma zoom lens was selected to help with shots requiring a shift in focus between characters, though it provided less sharp images than a prime lens. Adobe Premiere Elements 11 was used for editing, though it had long loading times and lacked tutorials.

1. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
By Harry Pennington

2. The different technologies we used
• Before, during and after we were in the process of
creating our production, we made full use of a range
of:
- Social networking sites to communicate
- Researching different devices to help with filming
- Programs for editing/trimming our product

3. Communication: Facebook
•This by far was the easiest and most convenient way of
keeping up to date with the latest group news about the
production. We set up a group chat involving the 4 members of
our group, and all of our actors (Conveniently, we only had one
other person in our production other than our group and the
teacher).
•This was very good for filming as we were able to confer with
each-other about when and where we needed to be in order for
our production to be completed: This worked very well as it
was much easier to compromise, just in case somebody was
unable to be there due to unforeseen circumstances.
•This helped us with time management as we could find a
time that suited everybody so that there were less problems.

4. Camera:
Canon EOS 600D
Information:
• 18-megapixel CMOS sensor
• Scene Intelligent Auto mode
• Full-HD EOS Movie
• On-screen Feature Guide
• Up to 3.7fps continuous shooting
• Wide-area 9-point AF
• 1,040k-dot vari-angle 7.7cm (3.0”)
screen
• Basic+ and Creative Filters
• Built-in wireless flash control
Why we used it:
•We chose this camera out of the choices available to us as it was the better
choice for those of us who were doing video as opposed to video.
•Outwardly, the Canon EOS 600D is virtually identical its predecessor, with a few
tweaks to accommodate the new vari-angle LCD screen. It is a fairly small camera
with a largely plastic shell and a pretty narrow, mildly uncomfortable hand-grip.
The emphasis is on the word "mildly", though - in actual use, the size and shape of
the grip proved not to be too much of an annoyance.

5. Lens: Sigma
• This was chosen as it was highly
recommended because of some of the shots
we had – Which were noticeably low-key lit
and therefore needed some of the aspects
of our lens in particular.
• It is very good in terms of focusing and this
was key as there are shots in which the
focus needs to be shifted between two
characters.
• However, as it is a zoom lens, the image qualities given by it are
not as sharp as those given by a prime lens.
• There is no image stabilisation so there is a risk of blurred pictures
which are not what we want.

6. Editing:
Adobe Premiere Elements 11
• This was the program
we used to edit our
production and make
it complete.
• It is powerful, easy to
use and caters for all
levels of experience.
Delivers excellent
results for both
photographs and video
editing.
• However, a problem with this is that there are horrible loading
times and there are hardly any tutorials in order to become
more familiar with it.