Evaluation - Question 7 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Toni F. Power Point

Throughout the whole process of the creation of our opening sequence our most important non-tangible possession was our blog. The blog held every aspect of pre-production/production/ and post-production, making the whole process extremely efficient. We uploaded our questionnaires and the answers that came with them on to the blog. These responses were then transferred onto Excel graphs. Our analysis of other opening sequences and film posters were also embedded onto the blogs. Scribd and Slideshare both act as storage devices for us to place our documents in and then use the embed code to transfer onto our blogs. Social networking sites like Facebook and hotmail were of high importance in keeping in contact with our crew and actors and helped us to be quite organised. We made use of Adobe Photoshop to create our credits sequence, which involved cropping some photos and superimposing the text onto the image. Finally we used the Adobe Premiere to edit our opening sequence, which after having experienced has made me appreciate those artists that put together movies as a career, as the work is very tedious and strenuous especially if your personality is that of a perfectionist. I believe that due to our status as amateur editors the final result was beyond what I expected us to accomplish, and is a testament to our teacher’s skills and our ability to take on new technology and harness it in a way that is successful. It took us some time to come to terms with the many different functions on Photoshop and our first few attempts were less than sufficient however with time we were able to use it with efficiency. An online technology that we agreed did not give much input was the Wordle that we used to brainstorm ideas for our title; it did not give us any inspiration and seemed redundant. I have now learnt how embed video or image codes onto blogs along with uploading documents onto online storage spaces. I have learnt how to plan for making a movie as well as camera handling and the editing of clips and sounds. I have also learnt how to collect research and transfer all the information into a discernable graph that is simple to read and efficient.