Evaluation, Question 6

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

I have learned a whole range of things about technology while constructing my media product.

Camera: before if you had given me a camera to shoot a movie I wouldn’t completely know how to start. But filming footage I learnt loads of things. I can now use manual and auto focus and also I am now able to use the external microphone on the camera.

 

Apple Mac & Final Cut Pro : to complete our media product we had and apple imac computer and final cut pro software to use, both of which I hadn’t used before so learning how to do it now is a great accomplishment to myself. I learnt how to transfer my footage from the tape; I did this with the help of my lecturer by logging then capturing the footage. I had to pay complete attention when being shown how to do this, my lecturer sat with me and we both had to keep close eye to which bits of the footage were needed and which bits of footage was irrelevant. Also going by the footage I learnt how to pick the appropriate type of music to go with my product that again had to be done with a lot of concentration.

‘Blogger’ and ‘Youtube’ – I learnt how to create, edit and document my work on a blog. I also learnt how to upload and embed a video using youtube, this helped a lot as it made my blog look much more interesting and professional.