Question 6

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

Camera, computer programmes used: fireworks, editing software, prezi, movie maker, slide share and basics like word and power point

Camera

We used a jvc mini dv camera which was one from home as we felt it gave us a better quality as we had previously tried to use a photography camera to film and made our video too pixelated when converted onto the computer. we worked as a team taking turns filming different scenes and all gained knowledge of how to use/work the camera which angles were best and what gave you best shot relating back to things like the lighting how that affected the shot and if something was in the corner of the screen and making it a better shot by shooting it at a different angle. we used a hand held camera as we wanted it to have the effect of it being from someone's point of view at aspects like a camera following them watching them complete their tasks and we used filming out of the window of the taxi to show scenery and to let the audience know where the film was to be set by filming land marks and scenery of London by having handheld it allowed us to have tracking shots and different angles from the taxi whilst driving again giving the effect of it being from a person's point of view who is in the taxi.

Computers

We used basic school computers provided for us from our media department we used many different types of programmes to create our final product and to present the idea through research and planning. we used the editing software: adobe premiere pro although we found the software difficult to work with at first we all adapted and can now do things we had no clue how to do in the beginning like creating a freeze frame and adding text around and importing music to play during the footage and simple skills like that we feel this will help us in the future as we will now be less worried to use a more technical type of software that will have greater impact on footage and clips.

we used adobe fireworks image editing software to create our production logo used in our opening. we used this software with confidence as had used it before in previous subjects and projects meaning we could use the software to our advantage adding features that we would find more difficult to do if we hadn't previously used it. we created a logo from combining two images found from Google and overlaying them in 'layers' to create the background image and then adding text in two different colours to stand out on both sides of the image. by knowing the programme it enabled us to work quickly on the logo task and carry on with things like the editing software which we were not as confident with in the beginning.

we used a new presentation format to create a more aesthetically pleasing presentation on our research and planning. we used a website called prezi which allows you to create a journey through a motion and more interactive PowerPoint style format. although at first we had to adjust to the new programme and more interactive it is than a power point we all as a group picked up how to work it very quickly and feel this benefited us because we were able to present out ideas in a more interesting way.

YouTube helped us to find our music used in the opening as we could find people who had created their own spy genre music to fit with different types of situations including a wide variety and having a choice of instrumental or lyrical.

We used a website called ''dafont.com'' to find a type of font this website helped us because on the site they have different categories and as ours was Russian based they have fonts that have Russian style theme and also spy genre theme meaning we could analyse and pick which type of font was best for our opening of the film.

overall in the end we feel we have gained many skills through this coursework as we now know how to use a camera successfully creating different shots and angles effectively, use prezi to create more interesting presentations and fireworks to create images to match our ideas and put with our own twist on to make it unique to us.