Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Evaluation Activity 6

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


This is a picture of me using a tripod and camera.
Before filming for media studies I hadn't really used a video camera before, I had used a normal camera to take pictures but not a proper video camera one. As we used a camera from school I hadn't seen it before so I had to learn how to use it and what all the buttons meant. It didn't take very long and I soon got the hang of it, the camera was quite a good quality which was important because we wanted to viewer to enjoy our film opening and if we had spent a lot of effort on the costume, setting and script, it would be a shame to let it down with poor quality filming. Knowing what to do with the video camera was important because it saved time when filming and we could get straight into it.

As for the tripod, I had never used one before as when I take pictures I just hold the camera with my hands. Its very simple to use, you just unclip the hooks and pull the legs down to the height you want. We had to make sure that it had a disc thing on top, to hold the camera on. Tripods are important for making sure that the filming isn't shaky as this can make the footage look unprofessional.


This is a picture of me on a Mac using iMovie.
Before media studies I had never used a Mac before and to be honest I found them really confusing to use as they are different to Windows which is what I'm used to using. So i had to get use to using a Mac before i could edit anything. It was easier than I thought and after a few people showed me what to do I found I got the ropes really quickly. As for iMovie I found it really tricky to use at first because I had no idea how to sue it or even how to upload our footage to it. Lots of people were very helpful to me and after a couple of weeks I finally got to grips with it. My iMovie skills have come such a long way since then, I can now comfortably upload footage, and edit it. I know how to change the colour of the footage, speed or slow it down, add text and music.

Blogger-
I had never heard of blogger before so that was new to me too! The first day of setting it up was a bit of a muddle but now I can use it properly to upload posts and our finished videos.

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