The document discusses the various hardware, software, and online tools used to complete a film project. A video camera was used to film scenes because it provided high-quality footage compared to a phone camera. A tripod was also used to keep the camera steady during shots. Macs and Chromebooks were used for research and editing an initial draft of the film opening using Premiere Pro software. Photoshop was used to create a production logo, while After Effects was used to animate the logo despite being a difficult program. Google, Bing, Slideshare, and Prezi were online tools employed for research and creating presentations, and Art of the Title provided inspiration by exploring other film openings.

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

2. Hardware

3. Video camera
We used a video camera to film everything throughout this
project because it was the best option with the best results
because it is much more professional equipment and its
results are much better than using something like a phone
camera to film. This was a very valuable piece of equipment
because its properties, such as its video quality, helped us
record with ease and quality. Also, i have gained a lot of
experience using a video camera because i have learned many
more types of camera angles, shots and movements, which is
always useful to increase variety and create effects with the
camera.

4. Tripod
We used a tripod throughout the whole filming section of our
project because it was the most useful object to make the
video professional and reliable to use as it kept everything
steady, in one place and was very helpful when performing
camera movements such as a pan. Whereas without a tripod
even a steady hand is still unreliable and unprofessional
because the recording is highly like to be all over the place
with the movement of the camera. Finally, a tripod offer many
useful functions such as adjusting angles and height of
everything, making the process of filming very easy.

5. Mac and Chromebook
We mainly used the Macs and Chromebooks for completing
the tasks, such as the research because they are all
professional pieces of equipment to use as they offer many
functions and abilities, but most crucially we could write up
tasks and use online tools such as Google to research.
Additionally, we used the iMac to edit a quick rough draft of
our film opening to get an idea what the final product would
be like and we tested which programme was more effective to
use for editing but we chose to use Premiere Pro.

6. Software

7. Premiere Pro
We used Premiere Pro to edit our film opening because it is a
very indepth and limitless piece of software, which allowed us
to explore more functions than other softwares such as
iMovie. Additionally, this programme helped us make the film
opening look more professional because we were able to do
much more than on iMovie.

8. Photoshop
We used Photoshop to create our production logo because it
was the easiest and most reliable programme to use to create
a logo, which helped us create the image we wanted. I used
Photoshop before so i found it very easy produce a
production logo and i managed to learn some more advanced
skills within Photoshop.

9. After effects
We used After effects to animate our production logo for our
film opening so it looks more professional and more unique
compared to other production logos in the industry, however
it is a difficult programme to operate and i still have some
trouble using it as it is confusing at times, but in the end the
final product is very effective and good.

10. Online tools

11. Google and Bing
We used Google and Bing for researching any vital
information needed to complete the tasks set in this project.
We were forced to use Bing because we had technical issues
with Google, which didn't allow us to use all of Google’s
abilities. However, using Bing we were still able to find helpful
information for research and when we had issues with the
programmes we were using.

12. Slideshare and Prezi
We used these two online tools to create professional power
points for the tasks we were set and then we used the
embedded links from these online tools to post these
presentations on our blogs. However, for Slideshare we had
to create a casual powerpoint before putting it on slideshare,
whereas with Prezi we could create professional looking
powerpoint presentations on the spot, which in the end
looked very professional and eye catching. I learned a lot from
these online tools because i now know how to create a really
professional powerpoint.

13. Art of the title
We used Art of the Title to explore different types of film
opening. The main reason why we used this website was
because it offered a great variety of popular film openings we
could use for some of the tasks we were set for the research.
Also, this website helped us find film openings which really
helped us with ideas for our own film opening because we
were able to find film openings with the same genre as the
genre we wanted to do as a group.