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

Technologies Throughout our Project
Making this opening sequence allowed us to experiment with a lot of different technologies. One of the first things we started with was creating this blog, using the website blogger. I was used to using other blogging sites such as Tumblr...etc. But Blogger was a completely new experience, it allowed me to blog my work easily and quickly although putting images within the blog was a little hassle, overall it was quite simple to use to document my work.


The actual filming of the project, we used the TV Studio camera (Canon XF 305), the camera's were easy to use, the ones provided to us in the studio. They were full HD and we could easily zoom in using the special remote on the tripod. These were all quite brand new camera's, different to the ones we used for our A2 music video (as I have done AS/A2 in one year). After we had shot all our footage we transferred it to the computer and then transferred the data through a hard drive to a computer where we could start editing our footage together.


Majority of the time we were in the editing suites using an editing software called Adobe Premier. We cut all the clips we needed and made sure we fitted them right on the time line. I had already used Final Cut Pro so I kind of knew how to cut clips and fiddle around with them putting them into order. After we had the basic draft of our opening sequence in order, we experimented around with effects, the one we used all the was through our footage was the desaturation filter to make in black and white (to create an authentic Film Noir Style feel). After this we decided to create a more atmospheric effect, we increased the intensity of the brightness and the contrast, to create more strong contrasting shadows. When all the effects were done we then turned to the sound, which we had to change the vulume of the speaking voices in some clips and put non diegetic music for our opening sequence. For the last week of editing, we had a dilemma of not being able to use the computer because they were over booked, so we then had to transfer over all our date onto my laptop and edit half the sequence through a downloaded trial of Adobe Premier.


Once we had finally finished the filming and editing stages, so after more blog posts we are now uploading it to Youtube, one of the biggest video hosting websites on the internet, this was a simple progress, and then putting the embedded code on the final blog post.