Evaluation

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

product?

Throughout our project we have many different technologies in all stages of our work from research through to production.

One of the technologies we learn to use was our camcorder, “Canon Legria FS46”. With the camera we learnt simple operational functions such as inserting the memory card, turning on the camera and how to stop and start recording. We also learnt how to use the zoom on the camera and how to view files we have just recorded on the camera, this was a useful skill as we could look back on our shots and decide whether they are ok or if we need to re-shoot.

Canon Legria FS46, this is the camcorder we used on our project

A different technology we used was “Final Cut Pro 7” which we used on the “Macs”. We used the Macs to research different film openings and then post these on our blog about what we like about them and what we would try and replicate. We used Final Cut Pro for the editing part of our task. Here we imported the footage from the memory cards on the camera which we had converted to “Quicktime” into the footage pool. We learnt how to go through footage and use the “mark in, mark out” technique to select the footage we wanted and then drag the desired footage on the timeline. We then trimmed any footage that needed to be trimmed using the “blade tool”. We also added "effects" such as "bad film" to get the desired effects.

Another thing we added to create a authentic piece using Final Cut Pro was our production company titles and titles such as "Cinematographer" and "Costume Design". We also looked at exhisting films so we could create a realistic piece. We added some slow blurs using the effects on Final Cut Pro this added to the feel of our piece.

Here is a example of a Final Cut Pro 7 although this is not our timeline the layout is similar to our own.