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

During the process of constructing the final product, I feel that my knowledge of technology has definitely grown a lot.

While capturing footage for our film, Ellie and I used our phones, although I think you can tell the difference between the footage due to some being shot from an iPhone 6 and other from a 4, the footage was very successful and came out in very high quality, this enabled the two minute opening of our film to have a professional feel to it and be as realistic to an established thriller as possible. Our phones were very easy to use; therefore, no issues came to our attention whilst filming, as they are quite straightforward.

To edit our film, we used the editing software iMovie, on the Apple Mac at school. I feel that at the beginning I felt a bit worried as it was something new to me and I found it a bit complicated, however, after practising and going over our footage an endless amount of times I feel that I grew a lot more confident as the quality of the work I had contributed improved massively. While using iMovie, we mainly experimented with enhancing, changing (making it either fast or slow motion) and cutting our footage.

Through the research and planning stages of our film, I used numerous technologies and programmes to present my findings in a much more organised and creative manner. The ones I did mainly used however, are Prezi, YouTube and Slideshare. I used these programmes as it was easiest to share/embed these on to my blog. Through the research and planning, when I created PowerPoints, I would then convert them to a Slideshare. I also used Prezi quite a few times to present my ideas and information I found in a methodical way to see exactly what I needed to do to improve. I really like how while using Prezi, you are able to present information in a clear yet artistic way as it allows you to do so using very colourful and interesting templates.

I do believe that throughout this process YouTube has been very helpful, mainly because it allowed me to look at previous G321 preliminary tasks and two-minute openings. In addition to this, it has been helpful as I was able to share my final product and get feedback from other people and see where I could improve. YouTube is generally very easy to access and was as a whole very helpful throughout the construction of my final product.

Furthermore, I think that the technology I learnt most about is Blogger. This is because I have been using it throughout the school year in order to track my development as a whole and go back to view previous research and planning posts/information that I might need very easily as it is a very easy programme to navigate. Similarly to iMovie, at the very beginning I thought it would’ve been very difficult to use Blogger, however, I think that I am now able to get things done very smoothly and easily without any major difficulties. Throughout this process, I additionally found out how to embed things onto my blog. These mainly included YouTube videos, Prezi and Slideshare Presentations that became very         useful throughout the research and planning process.