The student learned about various technologies through constructing a film project. They used Toshiba laptops and Macbooks with different operating systems and web browsers. Research involved using search engines and websites like YouTube, IMBD, and BFI. They learned how to use video editing software like iMovie on Mac computers. Different cameras were used, including learning how to operate a school camera and tripod. Overall the project helped the student learn new technologies for research, video editing, and sharing their work online.

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

2. Technology used for
research
When researching into films, statistics and so on I used
two different types of computers which had different
software on them. The first hardware that I used was the
Toshiba laptops which the school supply. These had the
software Microsoft Windows and so the web browser was
Internet Explorer. Apple Macbooks and The Macbook were
other hardware which I used. These come with the
operating software Lion, which is made my Apple which
means that the internet web browser is the Safari
application.

3. Research Software used
I used the web browsers, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and the search
engine Google when searching for websites and examples. The main websites I
used to find examples of other openings and to find videos to analyse was
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/). YouTube is a free website where people
are upload videos for other people to see. In addition, I used the IMBD website
(http://www.imdb.com/) so I could find out facts and figures about films, and
which are the most popular. Similarly, I also used statistics and data from
the British Film Institution website (http://www.bfi.org.uk/) to help me. I have
learnt what websites are the most useful for different things I may need them
for, such as YouTube is probably the most useful websites to use to find videos.
YouTube is very easy to use therefore it saved us a lot of time as. This
particular website is very useful as it has the majority of films, videos and
clips which have been used in films and other TV programmes. After we finished
our final project, we uploaded onto the Blogger, www.blogger.com. At first
Blogger was difficult to use as it was a new weBsite to me therefore i didn’t
really know what to do however, after using a lot I became more comfortable
with it as I knew where certain tabs were and so on.

4. Equipment- Camera & Tripod
We used two different
camera’s however one
had a much better
quality than the other.
By using the school
camera with a better
quality quite
frequently I learnt
how to use it and what
shots worked best
where. The other
camera we used was
one of the group
members, toms, this was
Because we couldn’t
get the school
cameras as there are
limited numbers.
The tripod was only
used some of the
time when film the
opening. When we did
use the tripod I
obviously learnt
how to use it from
unfolding it, to
adjusting the
height and angle of
the camera pod at
the top of it and
also how to pack it
away correctly.
when we wouldn’t
get the tripod due
to them already
being in use we had
to improvise and use
objects like walls
to keep the camera
steady.
Camera Tripod

5. Editing hardware used
The main Hardware we used for the film opening was the Apple
Mac Mini computer with a different companies monitor to
display it on. This is mainly because this had the best editing
software that was available to us at school and was
recommended by the teachers. There was also plenty of Mac
computers for all the groups in the class to use. Our group
found the make very easy to use for example when trimming
and adding scenes and I also took to it very quickly as I had
never used it before.

6. Editing Software used
The main software me and my group used to edit our film
opening was iMovie which was the default editing software
on the Apple Macbooks. iMovie was very easy to use as it
had very well labelled tabs whereas garageband, our
group found it a lot more complex as the tabs were not
labelled very well and it took a long time to get used to it.
To get our horror music soundtrack we used
www.freesound.org and added it into imovie straight away
which was straight forward. When we made our own voice
recording for the nursery rhyme we had to upload it
through garage band and then add it into imovie with
editing bits of the sound to where we wanted to out them,
which took a lot of time. Which then we downloaded onto
blogger.