Evaluation Activity 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Equipment 

We only used three pieces of equipment, these were a tripod, a camera and a video camera. These were the only three items we needed. We used the camera to take photos throughout our filming so we could put together a filming diary showing people what we had managed to do in the time period we had. We used the tripod to hold the video camera as we wanted the camera to be as still as possible and finally we used the video camera to film our film with. We knew how to use each piece of technology but we learnt more stuff along the way for example we learnt how to put the tripod in different angles to achieve the best looking shot.

YouTube

During the process of making our film and doing our course work, we have had to use a lot of YouTube. We have had to upload certain videos and annotate one. We were familiar with having to upload videos to YouTube although it became a bit complicated the first time we had to upload a video as it was in the wrong file format, but we overcame this very quickly. On one of our videos, which was our finished film, we had to add annotations. This was a challenge as we had never done this before. However once we were shown by someone who knew how to work it, we managed to do complete the task quite quickly.

Adobe Premiere Elements 10

This piece of software was one that i have never used before. When first started to use it to edit our film we really struggled to get to grips with it and figure out where all the tools were that we needed and how to actually use the software itself. However once we had a few lessons using Adobe we were getting the hang of things pretty quickly. There were some obstacles along way, such as the software crashed a few times on us and did not save the work we had completed so we had to re-do it. But we managed to deal with it and get on with the rest of the work that had to be done. One problem that i found was quite frustrating was when we had to keep rendering the film so that it would ruin through it properly, we had to keep doing after we made each change. Apart from these things we managed to produce a film that we are both proud of. I would use this software again as it has so many different tools and features on, you will be able to create some really good videos.

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