Evaluation Question 6

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

Here is a picture of Final Cut Express open with me working at editing our piece. There have been many skills i have learnt on final cut express just by doing this task. Firstly i have learnt how to import and export videos, Cutting clips down so we don't have pointless and unnecessary footage, How to colour correct scenes, How to add effects into our work, How to add in opening credit and place them in the style, colour, size and where ever we want them in our clip. This task has booster my final cut skills in every direction and I'm sure once we have made our music for the clip that will increase my skills to an even further level. 

This is a shot of a website called free play music where your allowed to preview and download pieces of music for free but its not copyright as the website is set up and designed for things like what were doing. I had never even heard of this site before so by doing this task it has improved my skills to look for website and i will definitely use this website again in my next media task. 

This is just a clear shot of a Mac, mouse and keyboard unfortunately this would have been lots of peoples main area where they have improved there skills. But as i use a Mac myself this task hasn't really improved my skills a lot apart from using Final Cut Express and Photoshop that are 2 programs that run on Mac's which i don't use at home. So this allowed me to help Sean and Tom whenever they came stuck on a Mac as I know my way around them fairly well.

Here we have a camera on a tripod. I hadn't really done much filming like this before I started this task so I've improve my filming and setting up skills as i never really knew how much of a difference a tripod made as i always thought sometimes you could get away with doing half handheld if you had a steady hand but a tripod just does it all perfectly. By doing this task if I was now asked to go and film another groups work for them i would know exactly how to set it all up, which shots would look best and how to film it in a professional manner.

This is a photo of another website 'Blogger' that I hadn't even heard of but was introduced to when starting this task. It is a very good, quick and fairly easy site to use to keep an up to date blog which we need to do for part of our coursework. I had never really used any site like this before but after using this one if I ever want to keep another blog I will definitely use blogger as it is a very good but also professional site to use. The skills I have learnt from using blogger is how to post, label, alter posts, and give a blog a professional layout and design.

This is clearly a shot of youtube. From this task it has made you more aware on how to use youtube and find the clips you are looking for much quicker than you would have before starting this task. As when doing this task you need to find many youtube clips, openings and scenes of films therefore when looking for these all the time you become quicker at searching what you are really looking for and finding it. This skill will stay with me forever as everyone one uses youtube now and again.

Here we have a photo of garageband. We haven't actually finished our piece of music and added it to our work as of yet but when creating many different beats and pieces of music we have used garageband a lot of the time. Therefore I have improved my music developing skills because before we I started this task i had never really made more than 3 songs on garageband so it was nice to improve my skills and get advice from sean as he also has a bit of an idea how to use this program. 

Here the picture is quite faint but it is a photo of photoshop. Before starting this task i had no idea how to use photoshop. When creating our logo Tom who is a bit of a master in this department helped me out and showed me how to do most things on it. Now I understand it much better and can do things on it which I could never do before like layering pictures on top off one and other and editing the colour of them so it looks like a more professional standard. I improved my skills in other areas on photoshop like export at a certain size but the main one was layers and editing the picture.

This is our Facebook page when we just started out with John in our group who left and has recently been replaced by Sean. We didn't really use a lot of facebook when researching, planning and creating our work as we didn't find it as useful as other groups. Most things are on facebook but we just didn't find it that beneficial when trying to promote our company and gain feedback. We found it easier to use other source like websites to research rather than facebook.