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

product?

By Hayley Townend...

Audience FeedbackTo make our film questionnaires for our audience feedback i learnt how to use “Google Docs Forms” Which was very easy, convenient and free to use, it also supplied you with a spreadsheet full of all of the responses from the questionnaire, which i was able to access in my Google Drive. I think this was a great way of getting audience feedback and didn’t take much time or effort. With this being an electronic questionnaire, it was easier to keep the feedback organised and easy to be able to compare each answer, rather than having to look through lots of responses in paper form.

Script

To make our script we learnt how to use a piece of software called “Celtx” which is free to download. It allowed us to type up our script in a way that was easy to understand and was was well organised. It was straight forward to use and the final product looked professional.

Social Networking

To advertise our questionnaires for feedback, we used social networking sites. This allowed us to share links to anyone that we knew in order to get responses on our film. This was a really easy and effective way of getting our audience feedback, so then we were able to see what was successful or unsuccessful and what we could improve about our film. We could have also used this to advertise our film if we wanted to.

Google BloggerWe learnt how to use a website called Google blogger, it was a really great way to enable the other people in our group access to things like: our script, storyboard etc… It was really easy to work with and very user friendly. This was really convenient as without it we would have had to email all the separate document to each other, which would have been time consuming. It was really helpful during the production of our film & was also free to use. It also helped us keep track of what work we had done and what we then needed to do.

Editing The FilmTo edit all of our filming together we learnt how to use a piece of software called “Final Cut express” This software was really useful for what we were needing to do. It did take a while to get use to as some aspects of it were a bit complex & we’d never used software like this before. I learnt how to cut and edit footage together and also add effects onto our film, such as: Fades, audio transitions and how to roll over the sound on to different shots to make it sound more natural.

CameraTo film most of the shots for our opening scene, we used the Panasonic HDC HS80 video camera. This camera was small/compact also, really easy and straightforward to use. It allowed us to film quickly, accurately and in high definition.For a few of our shots we used the Sony HD1000 video, This camera was more complicated to use as it had a lot more features and professional qualities. It was also really big,expensive and less portable to use. Despite this, if we had more time to get used to the camera, we may have benefitted from it more.We have learnt that the Panasonic HDC HS80 camera was easier to use and helped us get our filming done quicker and easier. Whereas i think if we did have a bigger group we would have coped better with the Sony HD1000