Evaluation Question 6

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


I've learnt so much about different technologies and also learnt more about technologies that I previously know. I've learnt how to use Final Cut to successfully edit a product to a certain person's taste such as a young person would want a fast paced edit to keep them entertained whereas an older person may like it slower.


iMovie: iMovie was the first real editing product that I had ever used. It was very simple to use and didn't take long to get used to as there were only transitions, sound effects and general editing software located on the program, it was very effective for us using it first time as we were just practising our shots (very helpful and quick to use when editing our preliminary task or first versions of our rough cuts). We also used iMovie to upload our footage to even when we later used final cut, from there we could just drag and drop it into Final Cut and it would be ready for us to edit. I learnt the basics to editing using this program and although simple to use at first I could produce something of higher quality on it now than I could of done 5 months ago.


Final Cut: Final Cut is a very complicated bit of software to use. At first I was finding it very difficult to even cut up clips as it was a lot more compact than iMovie. As I started to get used to using Final Cut it became ever so more apparent of why professional film makers use it to edit with. As we started editing rough cuts I got more comfortable using the program and the effects, transitions that came along with it. I was amazed at how I could use multiple layering effectively to build up fast paced editing when in a frantic situation such as a killing.


Cinema 4D: I was comfortable using Cinema 4D before I came onto doing this project, this is one of the reasons I chose to make a company ident using it. Although before I came onto the course I had previously made only one animation which hadn't gone so well, I had just used it for creating 3D text. This made it a lot harder, throughout the start of the project (since around the first rough cut) I had been experimenting using different animations and looking at tutorials for guidance. From using this product I got a stronger knowledge of how key frames work and how effects can make your product look more realistic (such as ambient occlusion to make your items reflect of off eachother).

Youtube: Youtube turned out to be a great resource for not only uploading and gaining feedback of the audience, I used Youtube to find out about different films that had been previously released or that are soon going to be released via trailers. I also found out more information about programs by looking up tutorials on Final Cut. Youtube allowed me to give myself feedback and not get repetitive feedback by adding annotations, this is what made me use it instead of using another file sharing website such as Vimeo.

Blogger: Blogger allowed me to update my audience on what I had been doing previously and what I was doing and going to do in the future by posting blogs. It allowed em to gain feedback and also keep a notice of what I needed to do in the future. From the start I was only using blogger to post my experiences so far, then I learnt how to use link lists. I used these to make sure my podcasts and analysis of films weren't missed by being pushed lower down. I also used link lists to advertise the Top 5 Current Horror Films according to The Guarian newspaper which updated weekly, this redirected you to the website once you clicked the link. As well as that I was able to activate a poll on a topic that I may of needed help on or what I found interesting.

Divshare: I used Divshare to upload my podcasts to this was very easy and reliable as I had to only register an account and it would save whatever I had uploaded just incase I had lost it, although the first time I struggled to find where the embed code was through the year it was very easy to use.

Scrib: Scribd is a very useful tool, it helped a lot when trying to upload powerpoints and word documents as Blogger itself didn't have tools to do that, what we'd need was to create an account and simply upload the file, from there we were able to copy the embed code and paste it in.

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