Evaluation 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the processof constructing this product?

In order to produce our teen angst film we had to use a variety of different types of technology. This ensured that our film was the best it could be and also helped us to learn how technology works.

We used a website called blogger.  Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a sub domain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. We used blogger to put all of work on. We used it because it was a simple way to ensure that all of our work was kept together in a safe way. Also our blogs were able to link with our teachers blog so she could keep on track of us all. I used blog as a way of keeping all my work safely together in one place. It allowed me to upload all of my research and planning of my film to make it easier for us as a group to find our work and know what we needed to do that lesson. 

For part of my planning, I used my Iphone to take pictures of the settings that we used in our film. I decided to do this as it shows clearly what and where the setting was. As Iphone is my everyday use phone then I already understood what I was doing with the camera, however i used a USB connecter to allow myself to get the pictures transferred from my phone to the computer, and then finally uploaded onto blogger.

We used an Apple IMac to complete our editing on. We used Apples as they are a high end computer. At first i had never used an Apple Computer, but after 1 lesson I was able to fully understand how to use them. We used these to be able to access an app called 'Final Cut Pro X'. This is mainly accessible from Apple. Final Cut Pro X is a video editing app for OS X from Apple Inc.   Final Cut Pro X was one of the most important piece of technology that we used. This is because it helped us to edit all of our film. 

After a few lessons we began to understand the short cuts on the keyboard which helped us speed up the editing process. We learnt where pictures and other data we needed was stored on the system, this made everything easier to focus on where all of our projects were.  Lastly, we learnt how to share our projects so that we could transfer them from the Mac to the school system. 

We used the voice recorder for our commentary of our film. Using the voice recorder taught us that the voice recording sounds much clearer on the mac than the talking on the video recorder. The voice recorder was extremely easy to use and we were able to use them at school as this is where they were accessible. It also allowed us to record for as long as we needed which gave us plenty of footage to edit. This was a bonus as when were recorded we made some mistakes. Also we learnt that we were able to pause the recording whenever we wanted and this allowed us to get the speech correct.  I also learnt how to transfer the footage from the voice recorder onto the Mac. As our speech was longer than we expected and we had to use Final Cut Pro X to extend our film.

 We used social networking sites to market our film to a global audience. We used sites such as Facebook, twitter, Youtube and Instagram to raise awareness to our target audience. This improved  the technological convergence in the making of our film, as these sites are easily accessible through phones and other technical devices. Which is a way of reaching our audience for free using modern day technology.  Firstly we learnt to target our audience on the social media for example YouTube. We used twitter and Facebook to promote our production by posting links, status's and tweets about the film increasing our audience, these social media sites are very popular with the age we are marketing for spreading the word about our film around. We also used Instagram when filming to show people that we were making a production in hope they would watch when we had finished.

We used Freeplay music to find our  music for the film. This is a free way to download music that has not been heard of before. It is a cheaper way then making our own music and is of high quality therefore making the film appear more advanced. 

We used gmail in order to communicate with one another within our group. This was a way to make sure that everyone in our group was up to date on what we had to do. I was able to contact my group to tell them that I had finished the storyboards. This then meant that Alex could go away and start the script. It helped us keep on track and make sure we did not fall behind.