Media: Question 6: What did you learn from the different

As we planned and created our finial piece we all learnt how much of an impact technology's can affect what we can create and how well the final product will be. We then also had to battle with how each different piece of technology worked together. A key problem we had while filming was reflections of light on windows and that being picked up on the camera and blinding the rest of the shot.We used a variety of different technologies within our opening sequence, and not just the original things like a camera and Premier to edit.

In post production we used a selection of different software packages, we used Adobe Premier to cut down each individual clip and stitch the lot of them together. we also used an overlay of the different videos we took to create the 'Ghosting' Affect which is seen throughout the opening. There is an affect in adobe premier called 'ghosting' however we found it not to work as expected resulting in us having to manually create the affect ourselves. In premier we also cut down different pieces of music elements and sound affects then arranged them to fit in with the video elements in our finial piece. We also used a variety of different online programs to write up our evaluation as well as using them for feedback and research. A online programme we used for feedback was Survey Monkey. this allowed us to send out mass emails containing our feedback link as well as the video link. once feedback had been received we were notified by survey monkey where we able to view the feedback from any Internet connected device.

Hardware used:

Lighting was very important in our scene, as when we recorded it was dark therefore we needed extra lighting to enable us to be visible on the camera.
We also used a tripod. The tripod allowed us to pan and also keep the camera still for master shots which needed to be kept still when different shots were being filmed.

Software used:

We used Adobe Premiere to edit our opening sequence, which was very fast and effective and made our editing look very professional.

Social Networking:

In our opening we included a social networking site called twitter. This is a very popular media site to exchange information and thoughts which is visible to the whole world. It is a great online way of communicating and is very popular with teenagers.

Becky using the camera, you can see the affect of the lights we used in this photo

Here we are using the camera on the tripod, which we have folded the legs down and made one of
the legs predute at 90 degrees perpendicular to the tripod to create a smooth-ish shot in motion