Evaluation task 6: what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For the filming of our opening sequence we used the a Cannon 500D. This gave our film a really good resolution as it was filmed in high definition and therefore made it look more like a professional film. When filming with this camera, I found myself struggling to adjust the focus but I got the hang of it after a while. I also learnt to look at different angles, to see which ones worked and which ones didn't. I'd had this camera for a while but had only ever used it for photography purposes, so at the beginning I found myself looking in the manual so that I could adjust the high definition options.

We used Mac computers which I was quite used to using anyway because I have one myself. But even so, I found it tricky to use the program imovie which was used to edit our final footage. Not only had I not used it much on my personal mac, but I hadn't edited anything complex, which meant I was struggling when we first used it. I did however gain a lot of knowledge on how to use it, specially on the preliminary task when I learnt to add titles and transitions. I also found that it was a very limited program and it meant that we were not able to do many of the things we wanted to do like e.g place the titles in certain parts of the screen. Which meant we had to mould to what we had and what we could do, so a lot of our original ideas on our story board had to be changed.

Other programs we used include garageband for cutting our music and youtube for getting backing sounds.