What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?-Evaluation Task 6

Mobile Phone
One of the things I used my phone for was taking pictures for evidence of what I have done, I have learnt about lighting and angles I need to take a successful clear photograph. I have learnt that it is also easier to use a phone that a big camera as it is easy to take and upload straight to the Internet through email. furthermore as technology has improved camera phone quality will be just the same or better than ones that our provided. Another thing I did was down load Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and created a Youtube account on my phone as it is easily assessable and I can use them when I'm out to contact the group and look at the results from the survey on facebook, it also allowed me to look at our film on youtube when i was at home so I could see what might need editing out and what I can put in to make it better.

Voice Recorder
Whilst filming we needed to create a voice over and commentary from the producers and director. I learn during this process how to turn it on, how to import files onto a memory stick and what type of file I need to save different kinds of file type. Including diegetic sound through the voice recorder taught us that it sounded clearer and less muffled on the Mac.

Email
During are filming and editing process the group found email very useful and easily assessable on both our phones and a computer.In order to get the producers logo and film title we emailed the pictures to everyone in the group so that we could all see it and use it if we needed it at any point. It was use full to have it over email so that each of us could analyse it and discuss about changing and tweaking the images and storyline and what we could add to make it more successful. It was especially useful when someone was not in or at the weekend. We emailed each other in order to make sure we didn't miss our deadlines. During this process I learnt how to import files on to an email and that email is especially useful during time when we were not together.

Macs
The Macs allowed us to add in things which we wouldn't be able to do on on a basic computer and editing program, we was able to do this due to the program and computer being smart and high tech.As we were working on the Mac for a while we all got a chance to edit and import files on to the Mac. During this process have learn how to edit and take out tiny proportions of a film and i learn what makes a film interesting and good in terms of shots.

The Internet
We used many different websites in order to create, improve and edited our film such as Free Play Music, Facebook, You tube and Blogger. Blogger helped us to understand what we needed to do in order to improve our film, and how to blog what we have done in order to understand the process and think about how we could improve. As it was in black and white in front of us it was easier to analyse it.

One of the main things i learnt from the Internet was how to download a video on to youtube and them import it to blogger. We had to do this on some occasions as the videos would not upload straight to blogger due to technical difficulties so be needed a back up plan. I learnt that you always need a back up plan as if something goes wrong due to technical difficulties you will waste time thinking of another plan. After repeating the process of uploading my videos to youtube i eventually got the hang of it and it has become quite simple.

We used the social media website Facebook to create a survey to know and understand what type of audience would be interested in our film and to also add in some of the things like to our film in order for them to be able to relate to it. I learnt that Facebook would be the best website to post the survey on as is the social media website with the most users.

We used Free Play Music in order to get music for our film which wouldn't be copy right. During the process of getting music to suit two different scenes i learnt about what sort of music suits the teen angst genre and what tempo, tune, volume and lyrics are needed to make a scene works. On top of this our film and another film picked the same song, this showed that we picked the same music as we our the same age so we knew what an audience would like to hear. I also proved we picked the right song for our genre.

Camera
The camera allowed us to perform many different shots including high angle shot, the use of high angle shots showed that they are still young as the camera is looking down on them making them look small, it also showed how many people were there backing up them being popular at party's and it makes it seem more crowed. The camera in combination with with the tripod created really effective still clear shots. The tripod and the dolly allowed us to follow our main character around school in order to back up that fact that people our speaking about her behind her back and are always watching her. We wanted to created the effect that she is being followed by someone. During this process I learn how to work a digital camera and tripod with dolly effectively, I learnt the do and do nots when using a camera and dolly such as don't use it outside as it will wobble, and i learnt different shows you can use in order to make it exciting. This is something that needs to be considered as it is a teen angst film and teenagers need to be kept interested.