Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have used many programmes and different equipment to produce the opening sequence:

1. iMac

We used this mac to upload our footage onto iMovie. We also used the mac to access the different software and websites we needed to help collect data and to produce and record our coursework.

2. The camera

We used this camera at the production stage to film our opening sequence. The camera used was a Sony HandyCam DCR-SR37.

3. Camera USB Input Lead

This is the lead I had to use to upload the footage from our Sony camera to the mac. You have to insert the lead into the USB port and then turn the camera on in order to correctly upload footage.

4. Mobile Phone 

My mobile phone was actually quite important as I used it to communicate with the rest of my group and plan when to meet up to film and edit.       

5. Blogger

Blogger has been very important throughout the course as this is the place where I have been recording all my research and information and where I have been displaying my work and videos I have produced.

6. iMovie

iMovie has been very important in the producing and editing of the final piece. This is the software I uploaded my footage to and the software in which I edited it and produced the final opening sequence, changing any parts I needed to and adding in any extras I needed.

7. GarageBand

I used GarageBand to get the sounds of the audience cheering. This is important as we didn’t have a live audience watching our dance, but I thought that a cheering sounds was needed to create an effect that we were in a real dance show with an audience waiting to watch us.

8. iTunes 

iTunes was important to input the Voiceover into our opening sequence. This helped as it converted the voiceover in to the right format and I could easily get it from iTunes over to iMovie.

9. LiveType 

I tried to use LiveType to create the title slides and the name of the film. However, we decided not to use this as a problem with LiveType is that is was hard to get the words over the top of our footage and it was only on a black background. So my group and I decided against using this and put an overlapping word straight from iMovie.



10. Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey was a key way that I decided to gather the results from my audience response from viewing my opening sequence before it was fully finished. This helped to create graphs and images with the results and put them straight on to my blog as proof of my audience response.



11. YouTube

YouTube was key in allowing me to put my videos on to my blog as I could upload them to YouTube and then embed them straight into Blogger. It is also important as my videos could be easily accessed for other people to view and embed, but also so it can be easily seen and marked.