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

2. Technologies used
Throughout this project I have learnt different
technologies of the process of production. For example
I have learnt how to use a Camera, tripod, IMac
software such as garage band and also premier pro for
editing our opening.

3. Camera
 I used a digital camera so my video quality
would be good. I have learnt how you should set
up a camera on a tripod, you must make sure the
legs are placed on the floor and tightly screwed at
the side, if you want a tilt, pan and steady camera
shot you must move the lever up or down. I used
a tripod because it would help me achieve steady
camera shots and shots such as panning which
we used at the beginning of our opening
sequence. Next time we should use a
microphone, as we has a majority of dialogue it
would have been better if it was clearer as it
picked up different background sounds.

4. IMac and editing Software
 It was very difficult at first to use the IMacs
particularly for garage band, but as solution for
our problems we choose to watch tutorials on how
to use it making it much easier for us to create our
own soundtrack and pick out sound effects that we
thought would be suitable for our opening. This
was the same for the premier pro editing software
we used to edit our film, at first we found it hard to
even just upload our video’s which meant that we
lost someone of our editing work therefore had to
start again.

5.  As we came to terms with how to use the
software it eventually became easier to use
specifically for effects and transitions, such
as fade out, face crossover and film dissolve
which we used mostly for our credits and a
fade to black at the end with the title coming
up at the end. We also attempted to use after
effects in order to change the lighting of our
opening so it would have a dingy appearance
highlighting the genre of a thrillers.

6. Uploading and Blogging
 I have used blogger to upload our videos such as
our pre-liminary, first cut and final cut. And also
used it when analysing other film openings such as
Vertigo and Pyscho. I choose blogger because it is
easier to access and work however I found that wix
and weebley seemed to allow you to create a more
versatile blog giving you more options of layout
and design, although to begin with many people
had trouble accessing this.

7. Uploading and Blogging
 To upload our video first we had to upload them
on a YouTube account and then click the video
icon which allowed you to select a video from
YouTube to put on your blog. This has also been
the same for uploading pictures and screenshots
of our opening in order to demonstrate what I
am saying on my blog. I have also learnt and
discovered new technology such as slide share,
which creates a PowerPoint for you and Prezi
which is another form of a presentation giving
you choices of templates such as my newspaper
template, this is a creative version of a
PowerPoint making it visually to look better and
more interesting for readers.

8. How technology has helped us?
 From using these new technologies it has shown
that it is relatively easy to make a film look more
professional even if perhaps the filming doing go
as well or that there were problems with the
lighting and sound. As our filming wasn’t up to
the standard as what its could have been, the
editing software helped to improve the clips we
had taken from filming and re-arrange it into an
improved version. It has allowed us to develop
our opening sequence and even helped us to
create effects like Alfred Hitchcock using in his
films.