Evaluation question 6

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

During the process of creating the opening title sequence I have learnt a lot about technologies. When  creating a blog I learnt that it is much safer and easier to find than writing on paper, paper documents can easily be lost or stolen but online blogging sights such as blogger can keep all of your work safe and secure at a few simple clicks. It also provides a constant record of the work that you do and files it for you in order showing you how you are progressing.

Also i can access my blog from anywhere with a internet connection because there is a blogger app for your smartphone device, tablet or computer.

The blog also allows easy planning for the work produced as you can save drafts and update them as well as embedding pictures to allow it to be visual and for the work to be easier to understand. I have been able develop my ideas through the use of the blog as I have been able to see each process during the pre-production and planning visually and in an organised manner, allowing me to see where I need to make improvements, and allowing me to easily compare my title sequence to the previous sequences that I have studied. 

I learnt lots about the rule of third when it come to filming my opening title sequence on a top of the range cannon camera, below is the one that i used.

Here is a definition for rule of thirds:

1. The rule of thirds is a powerful compositional technique for making photos more interesting and dynamic. It's also perhaps one of the most well known. This article uses examples to demonstrate why the rule works, when it's ok to break the rule, and how to make the most of it to improve your photography.
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   When filming I also found out that it is much easier to use the cameras auto focus, because it auto focuses you do not have to fiddle with the lens trying to find the perfect focus, also when you use auto focus on a camera it is easy to film tracking shots and moving shots without having to have a perfectly steady finger. I learnt how to place the cameras on a tripod safely so that they do not fall off and I learnt that the tripods need to be level before filming. I also learnt that if you zoom in with the lens on the camera, the lighting changes and does not look very good, so you should manually move the camera to zoom in or out. Also, the cameras we used are not tape based, and so this allowed it to be quicker and easier for us to load the footage on to the computers and allowed better quality footage.

During the post production I learnt lots about technologies, for the preliminary task we used Premier Pro to edit the footage as this helped us to understand how to create match cuts, understand editing and understand the process of editing footage but because I took media at GCSE levels i have a good understanding of this tool so I could help my group excel in this area. It is vital to have good footage because you can sometimes loose clarity when editing so without good footage you can not properly edit.

Another thing is that despite the internet being readily available to do my research and planning I found that going to the library and using different books from there helped me to understand and get to know the camera I was filming with and find different tips that the internet does not know. I would defiantly recommend books over the internet when it comes to research.