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

During the construction of our opening sequence, we were given various media technologies to experiment with.
When filming we were given camera's to use, however as I was the only member from my group that had done media for the previous two years, I was already familiar with the layout of the camera, so this benefited our group greatly. Aswell as hand holding our camera, we were also given tri-pods to use, to help steady some of our shots. This was a new technology for the whole of our group, as I had never needed to use one previously. We also used a fig rig, a construction wheel that is beneficial for tracking shots. We did a few tracking shots of the scenary, and as the scenary was one of our key theme in our opening sequence, we needed to make sure it was filmed and the fig rig was used to perfection.

Once we had completed our filming, we then had to upload our film onto the Macs. Macs specialise in movie editing, and although it took some adjustment and time to get use to, after we had stayed behind school for a few days and played around, we soon enough got the hang of the Macs, and learnt where to save our work to etc.

Once we had uploaded our movie onto the macs, we then had to open it with iMovie.
iMovie was pretty easy to use and to understand. Once you had uploaded all of your movie scenes onto there, you seletcted your best scenes and put them in chronological order. You were then able to cut shots in to two, and use the audio editing tool adding sound effects, a voiceover or background music. What was really helpful about the iMOVIE is that it updated your changes immediately, allowing you to preview and edit your soundtrack. What I found easiest to use on the iMOVIE were the effects tool, which allowed you to either slow things down or speed things up. What me and my group used best were the transition tool, this was where you could transition clips from colour to black and white- which we used in our opening shot. Once we had completed editing on iMOVIE, we then saved our work to a folder.

Lastly, we were then introduced to LiveType, which neither member of our group had ever used. I think that we would all agree that we found this the hardest, as it was an extremely long process and we had to be very patient when getting used to the format. LiveType supports five different tracks; titles, graphics, objects textures and video. We only used two of these tracks, which were the titles and video. Once we had uploaded our video, we then had to create our titles. This was a very stressful process and we were undecided on what title font to use. Once we had finished our draft, we recieved positive critism about our titles. The feedback from the audience was that our titles moved to fast, and at times were difficult to read. We then went back on LiveType and changed our font, as well as the movment of our font, which our audience were then able to read efficiently.

However, something that was introduced to us this year was a website called blogger. On blogger we would blog everything that we had learnt and researched, then this would then go towards our target grade.

Here are some screenshots and printscrrens that me and my group took as evidence of us using iMovie, LiveType etc.