Tuesday 21 April 2015

Evaluation 6

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

Overall the process of creating this media product i have used different types of technological products that include using them hands on and on a computer.

Hardware:

The hardware's in which i have used throughout the whole of the course are as follows: the camera recorder and the tripod. Throughout the whole of the video i have had to use the camera and the tripod together as they where the only items that we needed in order to film our product. Furthermore, i have had to upload the footage onto the computer so that i was able to use it with other programs and software's or example: premiere pro and Photoshop. Additionally, the camera was used when doing some of the blog posts for example: our meetings, storyboard and our animatic. Likewise, the tripod was used through the whole process of filming. There wasn't a time were we didn't use the tripod due to the fact that it was a very important item that we needed to use in order to succeed in making our media product. The tripod was extremely important to us as it held the camera still and enabled us to get the best out of taking our shots and recording.
The tripod was a major part of the whole media product as it is a portable three legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight of a camera. As well as, it maintains the stability of the camera as well. A tripod provides stability against downward forces and horizontal forces and movements about horizontal axes. In addition, the positioning of the three legs away from the vertical center allows the tripod better leverage for resisting lateral forces. Nonetheless, all of the work that we was editing from was done on the I Mac and this was the best computer to work on as it contained the correct software.
Software:

There has been plenty of software apps that i have had to use throughout the media product making. The most commonly used software apps were Premiere pro and adobe Photoshop. Adobe Premiere pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. Similarly it is part of the Adobe Creative cloud which includes video editing, graphic design and web development. Correspondingly, Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe systems for Windows and OS X. Nonetheless, both Adobe Premier pro and Adobe Photoshop were the only two most important software applications in which had to use to help make our media product due to the fact that they are the best editing software applications that anyone can use especially for a film. Moreover, we used these software's in order to put all of the footage together and edit any sound effects or extra audio which needed to put put in for example we needed to use Adobe Premier pro so that we could make sure that the action was perfectly in time with the sound.


 





Internet sites:

There has been plenty of internet sites that i used for example: Popplet, Prezi, Padlet, Blogger, YouTube, Twitter, Slidshare ETC. However, there was an internet site that i explored and enjoyed using the most and for me that was Prezi this is because it enables you to do blog posts which were made from other technological applications. Most of all to create the blog posts i have had to use blogger. Nevertheless, i have used YouTube to upload the recordings of our videos in which we made for example: our sound exercise and our cinematography exercise. All in all, we have used the internet a lot throughout the course of creating our media product.