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

ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT USED:
Production Hardware:

• Sony Camera
• Sony Mini DV tape
• Tripod
• Shot gun microphone
• Headphones
• Still camera- for location reccie

Post Production Hardware:

• Edit suite HP z600 workstation
• Dell computer
• Microphone for voiceover dubbing
• Mac computer

Post production software:

• Adobe Premier Pro cS3
• Live titles (on mac)
• Adobe sound booth cs3

The main thing I learnt about technology from this product was that the manual settings on a camera are very sensitive and easy to change accidentally.

On one of our shoots, as shooting outside and having to constantly hold the camera, we somehow managed to alter the white contrast on our shoot, and this became very problematic in the editing process which ended up needing a complete re-shoot as the colour correction on Adobe Premier Pro could not fix it.

I also improved my skill on matching contrast and lighting from one shot to another, and as our shoot was an outdoor shoot this was necessary as we could not always predict the weather of that day.

Lastly, for the first time i was able to work on the mac and learn from scratch how to use LiveType to create the titles for our sequence, this was a lot easier then expected and i learnt how to change fonts and add textures and effects to the font.

Through the post and pre production and production generally i have also learnt how to utilise the blog a lot more confidently, and overall my confidence with the technology has increased greatly. 

In hindsight I would have the camera on automatic settings always when working outdoors, to prevent any mishaps happening again. I also now know how to work and adjust the manual settings on a camera after being shown by the media technician. When trying to create unusual shots through trees etc it was very hard to balance the tripod and often needed someone holding it whilst another person pressed record, therefore in the future I would invest in a gorilla pod which allows you to attach the camera to any surface, and this would give us more hands to direct the actors.