Evaluation - Question 6

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

During the making of our Thriller we both learnt alot about different websites, filming kit and editing software that has allowed us to create the best version of our Thriller using these different technologies to help us with our research and planning, filming, editing and evaluation.

Internet

In order to create our Thriller we have used alot of technology in order to get our final product.

One of the first things that we used was a online website/blog creator program that allowed us to post all of our 'research and planning', 'Final Film and Evidence' and 'Evaluation' online so that it can be clearly viewed and also possibly help the those taking media at a later date.
Also, from here, as the image to the left shows it was easy to go back through our work to see what we needed to do in order to make our Thriller, what needed to be done to make it better and also to show ourself changes as work was split up in the group it was also easier to see what someone else had done and what needed to added or changed in order to add this idea.

 All in all, we have learnt much about the website blogger. We have learnt key factors to this program, for example; all videos must be on youtube before they can be put onto the actual 'blog post'. We have learnt how to edit the blog in order to make finding posts easier, with links to our other blogs, labels; names and evaluation etc.
With this technology we were able to learn how to organise a site effectively in order to make looking back at the work easier. Learn from this site the importance of linking to other sites; YouTube. With these skills in the future we would be able to make a blog or even if we just make a webpage we would be able use our gained knowledge of that everything is easier to find when there are label etc or the idea that if everything is linked together it is easier for people to see a range of work rather than just one element of it.

From Blogger another important website came into play as it allowed us to post our videos online and see feedback from others. YouTube is well known around the world, so maybe the fact that our Thriller video is on Youtube allows us to reach our target audience as well as if someone in our target range wanted to find new Thrillers or just look for new films then our thriller opening sequence would come up as it is the type of film that our target audience would be looking for.
The image to the right shows a few of the videos on one of our (Cammie's) YouTube Channel. We have learnt to post videos online and with questions 5 learnt to add annotations also to the videos. With these we made it so that our target audience found out more about what inspired us but they could also use this to see other videos that might appeal to them. Also, once again, the idea of labels has made it so that with certain key words typed into
With these skills that we have developed if we ever put a video on YouTube later on we could use labels and annotations in order to a, make my video find more viewers, specifically our target audience. Also the idea of annotations would, if there are any negative comments, either give us the opportunity to either correct them by putting a annotation over the top, e.g. if it was writing, to correct the spellings, or even to thanks the audience for their nice comments to show they were appreciated rather than commenting on each of the videos.

Filming Kit

When it came to filming there was so much we learnt about the different equipment that we used. The image to the left shows the two main peices of filming equipment that we used. As you can see both the major equipment was a Camera (Sony HVR 1000p) and a Tripod.

The Camera isn't new technology however it was still quite complex we found when we first started to use it. However we found, after a while, that the camera was simple. The technology became easy to use after that and we think that now we have grasped an understanding of this Camera that when we use other cameras we would have experience and knowledge on how to use them, also maybe on learn from experience the good and bad techniques we should use.

Editing Software

We used the software Final Cut Pro. We used final cut pro in order to get our final Thriller film the way it was. The film allowed us to cut the clips down that we got from the filming equipment, edit the clips with features like colour correction, transitions and add in the text to piece it together. This was a very complex detailed program that we found made you look into every detail in depth. When looking at other programs after a we found this to be the easier but more than likely this was due to the fact that we had gotten used to the program.
On this program though we think that the key features we learnt was finally putting match on action into play, sound editing and from there it was making sure it all matched up/ fitted togther well and that what finally cut pro has taught us. The technology behind finally cut pro makes the user become picky and attention to detail is great with this program. 
This proving to us that we have a basic understanding of the Final cut pro program so all when we need this program at a later date.

Imovie was the first software that we used to make our production companies opening logo. We done this using a template on the imovie software.
We learn how to add text, edit/add music, edit text font from imovie that we think would be important at a later date if we ever needed to make something similar or put together a short film we can use the skills that we got from imovie to create a film at a later date.