Tuesday, 26 April 2011

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

As our project was a opening sequence of a movie. First thing in terms of technology, that comes to mind are cameras, however we were already experienced with using the cameras from previous years and private actions.
Therefore we did not encounter any difficulties and problems with them, the only significant change was shift from the tape camcorders to the modern ones supporting the SD storage that is more convenient and friendly. Biggest change to other years was using the apple computers and it's software like iMovie or 'The Garage Band' that required us to get familiar with,
as they are fundamentally different than the traditional Windows-based computers and many of us did not have contact with such computers or software before. Furthermore, the inexperience with iMovie sometimes aroused problems like e.g. importing the footage from the camera that required the knowledge about the software and the different camera modes. However with help and advices of teachers and trial and error methods we finally got to know most aspects of available editing software. Moreover our skills and knowledge started developing with time. Therefore now when our project is in the final stage we are fully aware of most aspects of apple Mac computers and it's software like 'The garage band' or 'iMovie' that we used to work with our movie. The transfer to new technologies certainly was positive as current computers have better performance than previous, which is crucial while working on video editing, they also provide us with big space available to store the longer footage with better quality. Some software available on on the Apple Macs, such as iMovie sometimes seemed very simple, however, for most things we realized that we did not fully understand how to use and find, or engineer some techniques that we wanted to use. However, compared to the software we used at GCSE, Ulead Video Studio 8, as it was much faster to process and import footage.

We successfully learnt how to apply filters into video clips and adjust the speed, contrast and brightness of the clips to specifically enhance or portray a particular emotion or atmosphere. For example, i added the filter 'Dream' to all of my flashbacks to emphasize a passing in time.

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