Evaluation Activity 6 - Learning about technology in the process of constructing our film beginning

For our film we used the technology of a camera, tripod and computer (with adobe premier).

• From using a camera in this course we learnt how to use it and how using a tripod is effective. We learnt this from attempting to film by holding it, but it wasn't still enough so we used a tripod and this piece of equipment solved this problem.

In this course we used Adobe Premier as our editing software.

• This software was affective as there were many transitions available to use. We used wipe for our phone conversation scene to separate this from the victim walking and fade in/ fade out to black a lot which is affective in making the shots smooth and not just cuts in between.
• With Adobe Premier there are also many effects used. In our film we used 'black and white' and 'old film' as this created the CCTV affect that we needed for some of the scenes of the victim walking on the bridge.
• Adobe Premier is also useful as the audio can be edited easily and separately from the video itself. This was useful for the beginning of our film as we wanted to fade in/ fade out all of our audio, as we used music in all of the other scenes other than the ones with dialogue in them. This was also affective as we could then cut the music so that we could use the parts that we wanted to fit in the scene.

For showing our film and the progress of it we have used Youtube and Blogger.

• Youtube is useful for showing our film as it is an easy website to use, easily uploading films. The only issues we had at first was the fact we had to convert our film beginning to an MPEG before putting it onto Youtube so it would upload successfully, but this was solved quickly so we could upload easily.
• Another benefit of using Youtube is the fact that we can easily show this to other people and are able to get their feedback on our film through the use of comments.
• We also used Blogger for showing the progress of making our film beginning, this is through research and planning our film, animatics, photographs, text explaining ideas and changes etc. Blogger is an effective website as it can show all of these aspects easily.