QUESTION 6.

QUESTION 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

In the process of planning then creating our opening sequence, we had several different ways of conveying our planning, although we had to make certain our posts were supervisual to the viewer, therefore we could not just post a page full of text, we had to include some sort of visual material. I thought that would be challenging, but as I got to know all the different softwares available to me I began to find it interesting as I didn't know about various different things previously. Various different ways I carried out my planning for my blog was using different services which were available to me from the internet. Firstly, there was scibd, this is a site which allows you to insert a word document into your blog, and this was beneficial for more informative posts which required less visual and more statistic material. Whereas other site such as, go animate which allows you to create your own characters and basically you instruct them what to say, this type of website was made for me to include more visual and its more amusing for the viewer of my blog. The type of information I would mainly include in this kind of service could only be short and snappy, as I couldn’t include too much text into it. Lastly, there was the option of using screen-o-matic, this is basically, where it records what you are doing on the screen, therefore it gives the viewer the chance to view what you are talking about, it’s not as dull to look at and it’s defiantly more visual.

While filming and doing the editing for my opening sequence, I developed further skills in using the cameras and macs as I studied Media previously. While filming I discovered that I could use and hold the cameras more firmly and didn't need much help with handling the camera, whereas before I wouldn't of felt comfortable with filming someone helping me. Whereas with the editing side of things, I developed more skills with using the macs. I advanced with using programs such as PhotoShop, iMovie and Final Cut. These programs I had to use several times in the making of my opening sequence to bring all the pieces together. We used PhotoShop and Final Cut to make our titles look like they were being typed into the actual scene, we chose this sort of effect so that it would lin to our theme of technology and people would realise in the first couple of shots what the storyline would be based upon. I was not aware of this program before now, and I believe that I have certainly developed my skills in this field, I wasn’t intending on using this program but we was advised to use this as it would bring the effect that we wanted to our opening sequence, making it reflect more than just having basic titles. Before inserting our opening sequence into Final Cut we had to edit and cut in iMovie, to make sure everything looked perfect and that everything on the editing side reflected what our film was based about.

I think learning and developing these different processes helped me to construct the final product as it wouldn't include several things which make it as successful. For example, if I didn't use PhotoShop then I wouldn't have the titles which we specifically wanted to give it more of a technology feel, this required for us to use PhotoShop. Also other things like without the different sites on the internet I wouldn't be able to present my work in a super visual way, therefore wouldn't show my understanding of the different techniques available.