Evaluation - Question 6

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

To help with research and planning we used Facebook, I created a Focus Group to which me and Hannah added friends of ours who we thought fitted the target audience, these were all 16-25 and predominantly males. We asked them questions about our film and showed them new material, the blog and raw footage to which they responded positively (shown right).  We also used mobile phones to contact each other and arrange who was to pick up the camera, when etc. To produce out animatic we took photos of a drawn storyboard, these were then inserted into Premier and set to the right time. This was then saved as a video and uploaded to Youtube.com. Blogging our work as we went along helped us to present our work and research well to the audience and helped us to plan around what we needed to do, It also made it easy as we had everything we needed easily found and organised. We used Youtube and other websites such as www.artofthetitle.com to help us gather ideas, learn about a successful title sequence looks and help to gain research into genre and techniques used to portray that genre. Using the blogs and doing our work electronically has allowed us to gain internet based skills and easily access all of our work in one easy place, it is also safe and cannot be forgotten or lost. We used a college camera which we booked out with a tripod, this was very helpful as the tripod meant we could get canted angles and good shots without having to worry about having a steady hand. 


We used On Location to capture our videos from tape to the computer, these were then imported into Premier Pro. This would have been very quick and easy if the college systems weren't having trouble at crucial times. However we managed to get past these obstacles and the whole process of forming our title sequence was relatively easy, the software is easy to use and simple in it's layout. Using Premier Pro allowed us to use additive dissolves and cut up film easily, we couldn't have done this with some other software.


We exported the film from Premier Pro to a media file and then uploaded to Youtube.com, this process was very simple. We then got the 'Embed' code from the video and put this in the HTML code of the blog. 

Technology has helped me to create a interactive and stimulating evaluation by allowing me to easily add pictures, videos and prezi presentations. 


The technology was helpful although there were many technical issues and it took a long time to get On Location and Premier Pro to work, however we overcame these as a pair and managed to get the video finished.