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

With filming, I have learnt a wide range of camera angles that are used for specific shots. We used digital cameras therefore I learnt the three different lenses used for specific shots, these were 35mm, 50mm and 75mm. They enable you to capture a long shot, mid shot and close up shot. For specific shots that we wanted particularly steady we used a tripod and for our panning shot we used the steady cam to make sure it was steady and smooth, to start with we tried the panning shot without the steady cam and we could clearly see that it was a bad idea as the camera was very shaky and that isn't what we wanted. As we had no dialogue in our film opening we didn't use the microphone because the camera itself was enough to capture the white noise.

I also learnt how to use ‘Final Cut Pro’ which is the software we used to edit out film opening. I learnt that we had to convert it to an ‘MPEG stream clip’ and compress it first of all before starting any of the editing. Once we had uploaded our film to ‘Final Cut Pro’ we could see that on the timeline visual footage was above the line and sound was below the line. A small selection of tools I learnt to use on ‘Final Cut Pro’ were the selection tool, cutting tool, and razor blade tool. One of the mistakes we made to start with was when we wanted to move our visual footage around that we forgot to move the sounds with it meaning that it was all out of place so we quickly learnt that when moving visuals you have to select the sound aswell.