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

 For our media project we used many technologies and I learn't about a lot of technologies in the process. The first technology we used was our camera. We used a Panasonic SDR-S50 for a better quality picture and for a better zoom as the Panasonic has 70x optical zoom. It was my camera so when I doing the project, I didn't learn how to use the camera, but I did use the camera to its full potential and I could use all of its facilities.

The tripod we used to get the steady shot was a Velbon make. It was not the first time I used a tripod, but it was the first time I used a Velbon and a full sized one. The Velbon has a spirit level to make sure you are on level ground and you can get a good shot. It also has a facility to make the neck longer to see the shot better. It also has a handle to get a good and steady pan movement.

We used the program "youtube," to select the music type we were going to use. It was a very easy program to use and selecting the music was easy as we knew we wanted some music related with to a clown. We settled for carnival music. We also used youtube to have a look at similar movies to see what techniques they used and to look at different conventions.

We were using macs for our project to upload the videos and to finish our project. We used a firewire connection to upload the videos and then put them onto imovie. I was often using memory stick and e-mailing to transfer files to other group members and to take them home to do work. The mac was different to a PC and took a while to get used too as I hadn't used one in a couple of years. I didn't take long to get used to and I was it efficiently.

We used garage band to create a piece of music for when the girl turned around to look at the clown. I didn't use the software that much apart from to change the speed and to try to change the tempo and pitch. One of our group members Jade was the person who made the music. We needed a high pitched string music. It worked well for our production as the technology allowed us to get the timing right. When I used it, I found it fairly easy to use although I did have to ask for some help for some the functions. I learnt how to use it to its full potential and it is a very useful software.



I used imovie a lot in our project to edit the video and to put the project together. It was easy to use and I got the hang of it very quickly. I found it was good software and was very useful to what I was doing. It had a good range of effects and it was easy to change the brightness and contrast. It had a lot of text options and you could add your own font style. I used the backgrounds and text to add to the project effectively. It has a good contrast facility to make the film flow smoother. This software works very well and I had not used it before. I learnt how to use it to its full potential and found that it was easy to use.