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

Deepak Dosanjh

Hardware

MacsSD CARDS

Cameras

Macs

I used Apple Macs to do my blogs and some simple editing. Macs are advanced computers that would suit out editing needs, which is why we decided to do this work on. It had most of the tools that we needed to edit our opening easily. The use of the Macs in Year 10 and 11 grew my confidence and I had some techniques that helped within my group. The Macs contained software such as Safari, IMovie and Photoshop which we used a combination of to complete the film opening. Safari was useful as it helped my group gain knowledge and search we didn’t previously know such as tutorials on who to use the vast commands in Photoshop. I gained knowledge on more functions of how to use IMovie and Photoshop which I added to my previous knowledge. Editing my film video was fun and easy as the Macs are easy and simple to use.

SD card

We used a SD card to film and save the ‘RAW’ clips to. We then placed it into the computer to begin editing the clips together make a film clip. We filmed within two days we did this so we could save one days videos on to the computer and film the second days without the worry of losing the clips we had already filmed. This we a good plan and it worked because we didn’t los any of the clips. We also didn’t have the worry of using up all the memory on the SD card as the size we had was very big. It was easy and convenient as we filmed all the clips we needed on there and then transferred it in one go this saved us time and a lot of effort.

Cameras

The video camera was the most important bit of hardware we needed because without it we wouldn’t been able to complete the task. The camera was Anthony Wickendens and it was a very good camera as it gave a good HD film at the end of it. As the camera filmed in HD the final films looks very good quality as you can see. We knew that Anthonys camera would be better than any of our phones so we decided we would use his camera. As Anthony was the best camera man out of all of us we decided that he should be the cameraman. I had next to no camera knowledge and by watching Anthony using his I learn quite a lot about the different functions of the camera, I am now much more confident using a camera such as his. The camera had a lot more functions that weren't available on our phones. Anthony was a good cameraman and knew the type of camera shots that we should use.

Software

Photoshop

We used Photoshop to create our production logos. I had minimal knowledge on Photoshop and bus doing this I learnt a lot and learnt most of the basic functions and improved my previous knowledge. I found most functions easy to understand and apply to my own logo. I learnt what individual tools did such as the magic wand tool. I learnt basic function such as the size and shape.

IMovie

• I had a lot of previous knowledge about the functions of iMovie. IMovie is a basic software but very useful and did everything we wanted to. I did however learn a few things about how to make my use of iMovie easier and more efficient. iMovie had a lot of fonts that were good but didn’t fit our need so we downloaded extra fonts from DAFONT.COM. IMovie is a basic software but it does a lot of things that more expensive software also do. The simplicity of the software was useful and even for someone that hasn’t used it before can use this.

Windows edit pro

• This is a free windows based software that was easy to get around but didn’t have all the functions that we needed which is why we used both IMovie and ‘Windows Edit Pro’. The things that we couldn’t do in iMovie we did in ‘Windows Edit Pro’ as the combination of both gave us the best chance to get a professional finish. This was also a simple software to use the only downside that we faced was that the playback was laggy and sometime it was hardly viewable.

What I've learnt?

• This whole journey has been a success and I have learnt much more than I originally knew. Making the film opening was fun and knowledgeable I learnt some basic functions and some advanced functions for different software's.