Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Annabelle Sherwin 2145

Question 6

Camera

We used the camera to film the whole of our film opening. The camera is efficient to use, focuses well and has an efficient zoom which makes filming easier. However it does not have long battery life which means you have to stop filming to charge it for a while which wastes time.

Computer
We used the mac to create our film opening and upload items to our blog. The mac computer lets you organise your folders making it easy to find work as similar tasks are with each other. But there is not enough space to store all your work meaning you have to delete items which might be needed later on.

Final cut express
We used final cut express to create our film opening. It is a very effective software to edit you piece. It provides lots of options and tools helping you to create exactly what you want to the best of your ability. However you have to render the video every time you import, delete, move or edit a section which takes a long time and does not always work properly.

Blogger
Blogger is a fantastic way to store all your work in one place. It means your whole group can view it at any time. You can see what you have done and what you need to do. It lets you edit the work and change the uploaded date so you can create your perfect timeline. But the text does not always stay in line with the background making it look not neat. It also does not let you upload certain sized videos stopping us from                                                 storing all our content online.

YouTube
YouTube is a brilliant website which allows you to have your own channel where you can upload videos for other to view. This permits others to give you feedback which can help improve your work. However it did not process the video which means our group could not upload any videos to our blog. We used Youtube to upload our final drafts of our tasks.                                                  We also used it for research such as trailers and tutorials. 

Garage band
Garage band is the most appropriate and reliable software to use. It has a wide range of sounds and music in a lot of different styles helping us to create music for a sci-fi thriller. But you have to teach yourself how to use it as the software can be confusing.  This then takes up precious editing time as you have to figure out how everything works. 

Prezi
Prezi is like a fancy PowerPoint which lets you include interesting layouts and formats appealing to the audience more. The finish product looks a lot neater and professional. However it can get quite fiddly at times as everything is so close together you can end up clicking on the wrong item changing the whole presentation.

Glogster
Glogster has amazing designs for different subjects and interesting layouts as they are all different with bright colours making them attention grabbing. It is like an online college as you can include videos, photos and text. But when I saved my finished product none of it saved meaning I have to redo the whole piece of work which wasted time. I used glogster to make a collage of the iconography associated with our film.