6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We incorporated a lot of different kinds of technologies in the construction of this thriller product in order to make it more creative. Some of the technologies used include:
This IMAC computer is where all the work that we had worked on since the start of the media course is on this computer so it was quite useful. I had never used an IMAC computer till i started this course so it was a bit difficult for me to adjust at first as it had different features to a regular computer. But as time went on i became more familiar with it. It was one of the high quality computers therefore it made it easier when it came to importing, exporting and publishing media as it was very fast and not time consuming at all. Which made the IMAC computers an effective piece of technology to use.
Premier Pro is what we used to edit our short films. I must say this was the hardest technology i found hard to get used to because i had never come across it before. when we did our very first filming which was camera techniques, I only knew the basic which was importing the footage into Premier Pro, making sure the scenes were cut so they made sense so my editing skills were very limited to say the least. I had no choice but to learn how to use premier since it was compulsory and necessary to edit any footage that was filmed and also its the school's default editing software and we had to edit any footage. After using premier for six months now i have gained new skills like being able to edit by including soundtracks, transitions, fade in and outs, straight cuts, titles and so on. Premier was definitely a challenge for me but at the end it was worth because it is straightforward once you know what to do.
YouTube was another one of the technologies used. We used YouTube as a platform to present our work which was useful because other people doing the same course could learn a few things or two from the work we have produced. But the main reason why we used this platform was so that we could export our videos after editing onto YouTube so that it can be perfectly accessible to our teachers without complications and also so that we can embed the videos in to our blogs. It made absolute sense to use YouTube as it was a video sharing site so no arguments about that one. YouTube is the most easiest technological platform to use as it is so straightforward that i could teach someone else easily. In order to use YouTube you had to have a google account or create one if otherwise and post your own personal content and that was it. But even though i knew how to use YouTube in terms of creating an account, posting and searching on it that was where my knowledge reached. I did not know how to embed codes onto other sites so YouTube taught me how to do that.
Blogger is a publishing site which we used to write and publish about anything to do with our coursework such as research, planning, preliminary task, construction, thriller and so on. These were the labels that we made so that it would so much easier and less time consuming for our teachers to find our make but more importantly for the examiners to know how organised we are and also make it less time consuming for them as they have so many blogs to go through. Therefore they can asses our coursework properly along with our written exam.This was the very first thing introduced to us when our media course started and the very first post which was the welcome post was made. To be perfectly honest, I was not all that familiar with blogger but it was not anything hard to deal with. I found it very useful because you could insert images and videos from YouTube, which made the work very colourful and creative rather than just plain text. Just like YouTube, you have to have a google account to be able to use Blogger.
Lastly, the mini camcorder was a necessary piece of technology for media since we had to do a lot of filming. This is another equipment that I was not all familiar with as i had never used it before but just like most of the others mentioned above it was pretty straightforward. In order to operate it, all you had to do was open the side screen, press the "on button" then press the red button for it to start recording and when you want to cut or stop recording, just press the red button again and on the screen you will see in green "standby" written at the top ans that simply meant it had stopped recording. I gained a lot of skill on how to use this in comparison to my first time that now i know all the buttons and their respective functions, I know how to capture a variety of camera angles and movements and also how to safely place the camera securely on a tripod, which is key knowledge that everyone must know when it comes to cameras.
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