Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?

We used many different technologies during the production of our film opening. The technologies we used are: YouTube, Blogger, Final Cut Pro and the camera. After using these technologies I learnt how to do many different things during the process.








We used YouTube for researching many different things. We researched other thrillers to see the main shots, sound effects, song choices etc. which could help us to plan our opening. Also we used it to upload our final thriller opening of our film. I learnt what embedding is and how you embed videos so that you can put them onto your blog.











Blogger is a site which we used to keep all of the research on. This was helpful as all of the work done was in one place and was easily accessible whether you were at home or school. I was a first time blogger and it was a new experience which I learnt a lot from. I also figured out where to put the embed code to produce the video you wanted.

Final Cut Pro is a professional editing software. To put together our thriller opening of our film we used Final Cut Pro. It is very useful as you can:

• Import and export videos
• Insert images
• Insert music
• Insert sounds
• Insert text

I had previously used this software for our preliminary task so I was aware of how to use it. I did learn how to insert text and where to place it. Also I learned how to increase or decrease non-diegetic or diegetic sound. I figured out how to slow down and speed up movements. I already knew how to do the different effects such as fade in and fade out.









The most important piece of technology that we used was the camera; we filmed all of our footage for our opening on it. It was handheld which meant it was good for some shots as we needed the handheld effect and it was easier to use for certain angles and shots. It could also be placed on a tripod for the shots that needed to be still. I already knew how to use a camera as I have one at home.