Evaluation question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

  The main tech we used was of course the Camera, a Cannon FS200, we found that the camera was, reliable and managed to successfully film a decent quality of film, but we felt the way it lets you zoom in and out was un ideal as it made the zoom not as smooth as we wanted. But on the other hand the handheld quality to it was very important to our movie so it fitted in nicely altogether.

The tripod was of course another important piece of equipment needed, this was used for static and moving shots and we felt holding on the tripod was able to mean we could move the camera while keeping it stable, and minimal shakes.

And again with a panning shots it meant we could have a very stable base to follow action with.

With Adobe we have had a love hate relationship while using it, mainly because it crashed, froze, was generally hard to use, and difficult to manoeuvre and edit clips into the correct place. In fact as I was writing this, it was crashing causing us to lose time and rush certain parts of the editing.

This was real thorn in our side, and really limited the editing abilities we had, and the ideas that we had wanted to use were soon cast away with the realisation that this programme, isn't very good.

Facebook was a really good use of social networking for us, first of all using it to make our production company page, this helped us vastly in creating polls and asking our consumers questions on what they would like in the movie.

YouTube was another great medium on which to use. First of all for research, no doubt hours of time was spent browsing YouTube looking for inspiration on first, for our movie idea, and then how to execute it and how other people have done this as well. Finally it was also used to put on our rough cut and preliminary exercise, followed by the animated story board. This fantastic media tool really helped is spread the word about our movie.