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

 The things that we use to produce our film, include of:
Adobe premiere elements 10

We used Adobe premiere elements 10 to edit our film, as I have learnt how to use the program and tools, and experimenting with the software as I tried out different transitions which we have used in both the opening film and the preliminary tasks and the practice shots task, it allows us to to crop out footage, experiment with adding transitions so for example the black fade in, so putting them in different areas of the footage. Also using this software I learnt how to put titles into our film, so we experiment with different font styles as they gave us varies option on what font we should choose. Also I learnt how to add music into our film and being able to fade it in and out using this software. I have also learnt how to control the volume of the soundtrack, when we put it with the footage. so making it quieter or louder in the appropriate areas in our opening film. Also learning how to crop footage if its too long, as it has a crop tool in which allows us to control the length of each footage that we had filmed. Also when we finished editing our film, we were able to directly upload from the software onto youtube.


YouTube

YouTube is another source that I used in order to help create my film and the research and planning part of the film. This is because it gave me ideas and inspirations on what I could possible do. I also used it for looking up current film openings scenes an analysed them to find out the convention of particular genre films. Using YouTube helped me with the production setting looking up tutorials either on makeup, hair as this would give us suggested ideas how we should present our cast. or a particular editing video that would help with the editing with the film. We used YouTube to upload the preliminary task, an the practicing shot types and our opening two minutes so we were able to access it quicker on Blogger.


Adobe Photoshop CS4

I also used adobe Photoshop, which helped with cropping photos, such as the storyboard frames, This was useful as it gave the pictures which were cropped a neater frame and looks better when posted onto the blog. Also this software was useful as our production titles were created using this software, being able to create the frame in which introduces the film so 'The lost locket' frame was created on Photoshop, along with our production titles of 'Clouds Productions' was also created and used the drawing tools to create the white smudged section underneath the title. we also created the blank frame using the paint pot, giving us a selection of colors to choose from.

Microsoft word

We also used Microsoft office and PowerPoint as to create mood-boards for our chosen genre of film, as we couldn't create the mood-boards on Blogger as we had difficulty in arranging the pictures, so we put the pictures on to Microsoft word or PowerPoint and then screen shot them and put them onto Photoshop and crop them out and then save it on my computer and then uploaded it on blogger, then analysed them on blogger. Also I used this software to create the questionnaires for our my public analysis of types of films, then I uploaded that on to blogger along with the results.