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

At the start of the course I had never produced a video similar to this. I had previously had some small contact with the school camera but nothing like this before.

The first technology we used was the blog. I knew what blogging was but had never done it myself, I created my Google account and my blogger page was created. I played around with the layout, background and different gadgets that were available until I had a page set up to look professional and do and show everything I needed it to do.

Our first contact with the cameras was when we started our Preliminary Exercise, as a group we found it quite easy to get up to speed with the cameras and were able to use them to a pretty basic level.

We then began to use Adobe Premier Pro, to begin with we were unable to transfer our clips straight to our area so we had to go see the IT technicians to transfer the files. We were then taught the basics of Premier Pro and had a play around with it.

After producing our Preliminary Exercise we realised that we needed to adapt how we shot and edited our film as it was not up to the standard we were hoping for.

We also created a YouTube channel which we had never done before. This was quite simple to complete although we had to Name the channel and organise and label it correctly.
 

We then produced a remake of the Juno opening, after producing our preliminary exercise we changed how we shot each shot. We tried to keep the camera more steady and have more still shots and this produced a better outcome. When editing the Juno remake we gained a lot more skills using Premier Pro and we were really quite happy with what we had produced.

After this we started playing with Adobe After Effects as a group and we were able to create the Sharrison Productions opening. This was quite time consuming and although it did look very good we have higher priorities.

We then went onto our Final Piece upon which we tried using a High Definition camera we were careful not to put all of our eggs into one basket so took a small sample. As a test we then tried exporting it which was where the problems came. Adobe Premiere Pro could not export the file in the correct format therefore we had to go back to the schools standard definition camera.

In the final process of editing our video we tried all sorts or different effects and transformations, most of them we didn’t use but we had built our knowledge and been able to improve our film even more.