evaluation question number 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the process of constructing this product we learnt a lot of valuable skills which helped us to produce an original and completed piece of media work.
At the beginning we didn’t know how to use the tripod. Our teacher held a demonstration lesson of how to efficiently and smoothly use a tripod. Later on, in the preliminary task we had a chance to experiment with it and learn how to film the desired shots.We also learnt that the camera needs to be adjusted correctly to the tripod so we can film steady shots. In the beginning it was hard to do this but gradually we learnt how to do it properly and after a lot of practice we produced quality filming and constructed a competed piece.Regarding the programs that we used for editing and sound – Premiere Pro and Logic Pro, I didn’t know anything and I haven’t even heard of them. So, to actually learn how to use it in the montage we had to do a lot of practice. Every day we learnt new things, for example, the first thing that we learnt was how to put the clips together and then to make the scenes smooth we learnt how to precisely cut them at the right place.

By using Premier pro I have learnt a lot about different effects. We wanted many things to happen in our introduction and we did not have any idea of how to use the programme to add all of the effects that we wanted to the video. First we learnt how to add and cut shots, we have also learnt how to reduce the sound of remove it and add another to it. Experimenting with the colours and the lights we have learnt how to change the brightness and contrast of the video. One of the most interesting things was how to back up a shot. I was personally amazed of how many stuff we catch from premier pro.

Logic Pro, allowed us to produce our own sound which we thought would be best for our production. It took us quite a long time to actually learn how to put different sounds together and make a good sound overall. But after a lot of practice we became faster at it and we could easily pick up our desired sounds and create what we needed for the piece. This is what we did for the first part of the video; we found a sound and combined it with a specific piano sound which brought the suspicion that we needed, so we were quite pleased to use this program.

After that, for our main production we needed to change the colours and we experimented and found out how to do that. That also made us realise that the filming isn’t the most important thing. When editing we actually achieve what we want to transmit to the audience. An example for this is, when in our video the girl is getting ready and we filmed short shots of bits of her body like eyes, lips etc. and when we put them together it wasn’t like we imagined it to be so then we found out about transitions and by adding them between each shot it became much smoother and we achieved our goal.
Different web-sites have also helped us with the inspiration of the look of the production. We used different Google images to inspire us with mice-en-scene, lighting, camera, angles etc.

Blogger was also very useful for us to share our ideas and by receiving different comments we were able to make improvements and make our production better. It also gave us the opportunity to look at other people’s blogs and see in what way we could make our blogs easier to use. We learnt how adjust the entire blog and the right side bar. Also how to upload pictures and videos, and adjust the pictures’ size.