The document discusses various technologies used during the process of creating a production project. Social media sites like Facebook were used for communication and coordination. Research was conducted using Google and YouTube to learn about different filming devices. A Canon EOS 600D camera was used for filming due to its capabilities. A Sigma lens was chosen for its ability to focus in low-light situations. Adobe Premiere Elements 11 software was used for editing due to its availability, though it had long loading times.

1. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
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 Adam Wilton

2. Different technologies used
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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
with things such as google and youtube.
- Programs for editing/trimming our product
- The camera used for filming

3. Communication: Facebook
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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. 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 product to be completed. It
helped with time management on the whole, being
able to figure out when and for how long people
were free to film or stay back to edit the final
product.

4. Camera: Canon EOS 600D
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Basic Information:
- 18-megapixel CMOS sensor
- Scene Intelligent Auto mode
- On-screen Feature Guide
- Wide-area 9-point AF
- 1,040k-dot vari-angle 7.7cm (3.0”) screen
- Up to 3.7fps continuous shooting
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We chose this camera because of a number of factors, the main
being that we had a limited stock of different cameras and this
camera was the best for filming as opposed to photography.
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Outwardly, the Canon EOS 600D is virtually
identical its predecessor, with a few tweaks to
accommodate the new vari-angle LCD screen

5. Lens: Sigma
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This was chosen 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 also 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. Unfortunately because it is a
zoom lens, the image qualities given by it are
not as sharp as those given by a prime lens, there
is also no image stabilisation so there is a risk of
blurred pictures which are not what we want.

6. Editing: Adobe Premier Elements 11
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This was software of choice to edit as it was available for
us to use not just in school, and was downloadable to
our home computers unlike the apple software which
was our second choice. One good thing about the
software is that it had a very good UI (user interface)
that once you become familiar with, is a very easy to
use and smooth software, however because of the vast
amount of different versions of the software it can be
incredibly difficult to find a tutorial for a version that has
a similar UI to help you become familiar with in the first
place. Another issue was the abysmal loading times for
starting up and loading in your product.

7. Editing: Adobe Premier Elements 11
●
This was software of choice to edit as it was available for
us to use not just in school, and was downloadable to
our home computers unlike the apple software which
was our second choice. One good thing about the
software is that it had a very good UI (user interface)
that once you become familiar with, is a very easy to
use and smooth software, however because of the vast
amount of different versions of the software it can be
incredibly difficult to find a tutorial for a version that has
a similar UI to help you become familiar with in the first
place. Another issue was the abysmal loading times for
starting up and loading in your product.