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

I have learnt that in order to make a good film you don't exactly need the best of the best, but instead a good plan, and a good idea which will enable you to actually generate a good media product. Examples include the film Monster's, a film that revolved around CGI effects, only cost £500,000. That itself conveyed that the fact that the producer had a plan in mind, he would be able to actually construct this, without using the best technologies. That film made a box office over £4 million.

What this process has taught me is how to make good imaginations come to life, and how to create my innovative ideas through the aid of technologies. By this I mean the fact I was given the opportunity to work with the likes of Apple Mac's, and Panasonic HD camera's as well as the helpful stilts. This itself, lets your imagination run wild, as it gives you that leverage to actually represent scenes in an accurate manner, and to actually achieve my aims with this film.

The Mac proved to be one of the most resourceful tools

The Apple Imac was the key to the editing of the Split opening sequence through the pre-installed Adobe Premier Pro. Although it's way of style is different to that of a ''normal'' computer, this piece of technology allowed us to reach our aims.

Other pre-installed programs included the Photoshop Cs3, which I was familiar with due to my experience with the software, however, I still managed to learn more than I ever thought I would through utilizing this Computer.

The quality of this camera was superb

The Panasonic HD camera's enabled me and my crew to actually achieve what we wanted by representing the character in the opening sequence to an authentic style. This camera allowed us to adopt different techniques, and its production proved to be to a very high standard.

Although it tooks us many reattempts due to our amateurism, so it was ineivatbale, but none of those deleted footages were due to us using the camera incorrectly, more of us actually getting our representations wrong. This insinuates that this Camera was an easy tool to use, and really did aid us with constructing Split.

The way the camera captured footage's, whether quick or slow, was absolutely phenomenal, and the only regret we as a team have, was the fact that we were beaten to one of these camera's for our last scene, which mean't that, in some form, the standard dropped, although it was a significant scene.

Blogger has astounded me in many ways

This allowed me to actually justify everything that I've done,  and has been a very useful tool in expressing myself. Furthermore, it has given me that confidence since I am aware that whatever I do, I can then explain and justify and ensure that is made obvious that it was done intentionally.

It has also had an affect on me, and this process has introduced me to Blogger, which I think, will be using for the foreseeable future, in a personal manner. The way that it allows one to actually post, and construct they're on web, and the manner it records how many posts you've done in each month has astounded me. I am very fond of Blogger, and I am very grateful for this process to have introduced me to it.

Prior to this process, I had never come across this, but after the Split opening sequence, I have somewhat become an addict to this program, and how it enables you to construct your imaginations to such a level that it exceeds what you had initially imagined.

Without this technology, our Split product would most likely not have been produced to the standard it is today. It enabled us to edit this video using various effects such as the flashback monochrome, which in brief, which aided in strengthening our movie-editing skills. We utilized video transitions such as well as being able to experiment with audio effects too. Examples of this include, expontential fade, which we used to change the volumes of our sound track at specific parts within the opening sequence that were editing with the aid of this beautiful program.