Evaluation Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?


During our filming we used the Canon 600D camera and Hama Omega premium III tripod for steady filming with the addictions of lights and a reflector in such scenes as those in the bar. These are very good and professional equipment to give use the best picture quality with all the items being used at the same time. The tripod helped with the stability of the picture and the reflectors helped when the light was a little too low.

What Went Well

• The camera quality was extremely good, providing a range of qualities from 360p to full HD 1080p.
• The tripod was extremely effective in keeping stability and helping us pan and get our steady shots of long walks ie; the railway shot and tunnel shot.
• The time spent on Adobe Premier Pro was quite easy, and no big problems occurred.

What Went Wrong

• We had major problems with the camera and light coming into the camera, many shots were wasted because not enough light was coming into the camera and the small screen on the camera did not let us see whether the shot would have a good outcome or not.
• The dark atmospheres that we wanted in our video provided a big challenge as we did not have lights in order to compensate for the dark afternoons that we filmed on.
• Exporting our video onto YouTube proved challenging as it took a whole day to upload because of internet speeds and a large HD file.

   






The editing of the video was done on Adobe Premier pro.

The making of the website was done using wix.com. We decided originally to use Adobe Dreamweaver but the program required lots of time to do it and so we used a online website builder. 

For the research and planning there where various uses of technology such as the internet searching using www.google.co.uk, the use of www.blogger.com to log our work and progress, YouTube for researching into similar products. And also the use of Microsoft Office and photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. The use of the Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop was for doing our risk assessment and other construction based activities.