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

 

•  From producing our opening I have learnt that you must always keep the camera in the same position because we had to re-shoot a few scenes and i had to edit some clips so they flowed together due to camera position moving or lighting changing.
• I have also learnt to always use the tripod (unless you are trying to produce a specific technique) because it makes the clips look more professional and smoother.

• I have learnt that the school computers have some issues regarding uploading footage and sometimes slow the footage down when playing it back due to a lack of hardware. So i brought my own laptop in to school that had the software uploaded on it and learnt how to transfer footage from the camera onto the computer.

• I have learnt much more about Adobe After Effects that i used to create the opening title with the blood splatter. I already had some knowledge of this software but i learnt how to combine layers and make a virtual camera to track and pan across the screen.

• We used premiere elements to edit our openings. I already knew quite a lot about Premiere Elements due to using it for small home projects and the preliminary task but i did learn a few new things such as how to seperate sound from video and the various effects and transitions that are pre-loaded onto premiere elements that were really useful when producing our opening.

• We used photoshop to create tiles of different shots and combine them into one image. I have used photoshop for a very long time so i am very used to all the tools however i did learn when using photoshop that you can smooth pictures out when resizing them so i used those filters when resizing screengrabs to keep a good quality image.

• We used blogger to host our blogs. I learnt a lot about blogger as i have never had a blog so i learnt all about blogging such as posting, editing and drafting posts.

• We used Youtube to host our videos and post them online. I have another youtube account but i learnt about annotations because i have never had to use them before and they proved to be very useful and easy to use.

• We used Freeplay music to search for our royalty free music used in our opening. I learnt that there was a vast amount of copyright free music on the internet and all of them are very easy to download.