What have you learnt about technologies from the
- 1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?
- 2. Abode premiere CS3 • Abode premiere CS3 is one of the different software’s we used. We used adobe premiere CS3 to edit our footage and create our film, the software on adobe premiere allows us to edit the different shots and cut between shots in order to make the shots match up. On adobe premiere we were also able to add background music to the film opening, and alter the sound levels within the footage, such as the wind levels. Using adobe we were also able to add the film titles such as the actor’s names and the directors etc. when using adobe premiere I wasn’t aware that the sound levels of the footage could be turned up and down, however this is a new skill we have gained from using the adobe premiere software.
- 3. Camera equipment • When filming our media project we used different types of equipment to ensure that we film our footage smoothly. We used tripods to make it easier to film our footage and maintain the steadiness of the camera; we also used the tripod in order to rotate the camera when creating establishing shots smoothly and without the camera shaking. We used the camera to film the footage itself for our media project. Through using the camera equipment we gained knowledge and how to use the equipment, and how important the equipment such as tripods is to enhance the professionalism of the opening.
- 4. Microsoft word and PowerPoint • Throughout the process of our media project we used Microsoft word and PowerPoint numerous times to help plan our work. Such as when we created the different shots we would use in our media project we used Microsoft word to list all the shots we would be using for our opening. We also used PowerPoint and Microsoft word through the course of our project to show our use of IT skills in our final evaluation.
- 5. Google • We used Google when planning and creating the ideas for our film. We used Google to help research what type of opening we can create; we did this by researching the different types of thriller genres such as action-thriller, spy- thriller and gangster-thriller. We also used Google for images to upload on to our blog, for purposes such as when we created our thriller genre mood board.
- 6. YouTube • We used You Tube to research and watch different types of thriller openings to help gain an idea on the narrative of our opening. We also used You Tube to upload our preliminary task, and we used You Tube at the end of our media project to upload our final film opening.
- 7. Wikipedia • We used Wikipedia through the course of our media project to gain information about the different thriller films and their narratives. We also used Wikipedia to gain knowledge about the different thrillers and how each sub genre is different; we also used it to help write our definition of a thriller on our blogs. Wikipedia also helped us when writing about the different sub genres on our blogs. Wikipedia has become useful in the process of making our film opening.
- 8. Blogger • We used blogger throughout our whole media course to upload every piece of work we have completed within the course. When researching the thriller genre everything that was carried out during the research would be place on our blogger and categorised. At the start of the course we were asked to give definitions of the thriller genre and its sub genres, and these definitions were to be placed under the thriller genre page. We also used the bloggers to track our progress and planning of our film opening, we had categorised pages for our research and our target audience research. These pages contained information on the different audiences we thought that our film was targeted towards. We also had pages categorised for our planning of the film opening, we had pages for our initial ideas, locations and for our progress, when filming the opening, and we used diaries to keep track of this.