Evaluation Activity 6

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

 

These are screen grabs of a still frame in our film, my blog, garage band and Emily's blog. We used garage band, set up our blogs and uploaded our film on an i mac. I have never used a mac computer so this was a new experience and i enjoyed it very much. I have now learnt how to upload a film, how to make music to cover the film and how to set up a blog.

This is Emily and I working at the i mac using imovie HD and garage band, and with the camera and tripod. I have learnt how to use the tripod and camera and how to put the camera on the tripod. There are various positions the camera can sit due to the movement of the tripod. This means you can get different shots just by navigating the tripod's head. You can do close up and pan shots on the camera with the zoom in and out button.

Garage band is a very good device but hard to use when it is your first time. There are many different sound tracks you can choose from, some rock, some classical. However, once you have your sound track and put it to the film is well worth the difficulty, especially when using very appropriate music to suit both genre and parts in the film. For example, putting a fast, up beat music track to a chase scene works really effectivley.

Using imovie HD was fun but also tricky in places. This is the programme we used to upload the films and edit it. There are many different editing options, from transitions to cropping time of a frame, making the film flow better. Choosing various transitions to go between to clips was fun and to see how much more effective the film became. Also, we used fade in fade out with things like the title, and used typewriter style writing for the names of the characters involved.

Using the mac's was quite difficult bacause it is so different to a normal computer, but after learning how to use it was fun and i enjoyed discovering all the unusual things it does have compared with a usual computer.

These are the pictures of the different programmes we used in creating our film. Blogger to write up our tasks and questionaire results, this was much easier to create and to use. Garage band to record music, to cover our film, imovie HD is the programme we used to upload and edit our film, and you tube to look at existing films and research.