Evaluation Question#6 - Learning about new technologies

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

The whole experience of filming and editing has been a thrill for all of us. I've managed to learn many key terms, experience filming with the camera, which later developed my use of different camera angles. Editing has got to be the best experience so far, just learning about changing the colour, lighting, cutting out scenes, placing scenes in different order, the speed... just using these effects has made our opening film more engaging to our audience, look better, and it related more to our story of our opening film. Just watching others use Final Cut express and listening to teachers about it has been so worth my time, I've learnt to much, and I tend to still learn more about it. Blogging was used for us to express whatwe had done during our filming. Jotting down simple notes helped us to remember what we had done, and what more we could do. Near the beginning of us filming, filming and editing was new to me, I found it hard to understand even the simplest meanings of camera angles, and what they were supposed to give. Our preliminary filming was a great success, it looked great in the end, but I found it hard to be a part of it because I struggled to understand the filming and the editing process. Instead I observed how people in my group used the camera angles and zoom in/out to give off effect, and watched the editing process happen - this allowed me to learn whatto do in time for our real filming.

When it came to making our final film, I took part in alot more than I did in our Prelim. I had my quota of filming, I took shots at many different angles, editing became easier and easier as Iused it more while editing our film scene by scene. Not only was it a great experience for me, but it can be used in a possibly future profesion as well.

Filming related to acting as well. When we filmed the part of the grandson (played by me) walking to his grandma's house to knock on the door, I had to replay my acting scene many times to get the effective angles we aimed for. Once the filming was transferred onto the editing process, we deleted parts of scenes to keep in tune of myself walking to the door, as well as the scene being viewed by different angles.

By Daniel Heighington