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

iMovie was a very helpful tool in helping us edit our product, as it it simple yet creates a great quality looking piece. We could create effects that made our thriller look a whole lot better, as it added extra feeling of suspense and fear, for instance with the knife shots.

After effects had such an impact on our product, it helped us create a more realistic looking product and we learnt to experiment with different titles and effects and the outcomes of them. At first we were a bit slow to start, learning all the tools and features, but once we practiced, we got used to it and were able to produce good results.

The use of the Camera was tricky at first, because we weren't able to film a good quality looking shot in dark light as it came out grainy. However the camera was very easy and simple to use and hold, which helped us shoot shots easily, we used the HD Canon.
We also decided we would get better results if i were to film with my camera, the Lumix GF2 HD. This created excellent looking shots in HD, which made the product look very realistic and the results were an improved from before.

Another technology we used was YouTube, this allowed us to do a lot of product Research on other thriller openings and gave us ideas about what we wanted ours to look like.
We aslo watched a lot of tutorials for after effects for our titles, this helped us a lot and we learn how to use after effects as a result also, which made it very easy to create.
YouTube also allowed us to show our products we created, such as our preliminary task, rough cut, final cut and also when experimenting with after effects


 

Here we created an idea of what we wanted our titles to look like, through youtube we were able to present this onto our blog and show our progress. Although this wasn't our final decision, it helped learn how to use after affects and the outcomes.