Evaluation Q6

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



Google: There are many search engines out there to collect information and I choose Google because I am familiar with it and I use it regularly at home. Google is the most well-known and popular searching engine. It helped me to do research and allows me to use Blogger. Also it allows me to make a survey about my target audience. I also used Google to research trailers, media products, music and film clips.

 Wordle: Wordle assisted me in putting all the key words for the genre in a picture. This gives a visual representation of the genre and makes it clear to my target audience what to expect.

Serif Movie X5: I used this software to assist me in editing my movie. I had to learn how to use it and edit effects and sounds. I learned how to cut clips and overlap them so Richard ghosts in to the chase scene.
Even though the camera was straight forward to use, I had some technical difficulties with files corrupting, so I had to learn how to deal with that.
I learnt how to incorporate Stock Video clips into the opening title sequence, this improved the beginning of the film.
Choosing the right music was quite difficult and it took me a long time to pick this piece. The music is very important as it helps set the tone of the sequence.

Movie Maker: This I used as another piece of software to help me edit my movie and put all the clips together to finalise my film.

Survey Monkey: Survey Monkey enabled me to collect responses and feedback from my audience. From the feedback In was able to make alterations to my final draft film. It helped me get feedback on my production very quickly as I learnt how to embed the survey into my blog and put links on a variety of Social Media including Facebook and Twitter.

Blogger: After filming different scenes I asked an audience though Facebook and e-mail to comment. I used blogger for this which enabled me to write how I had filmed the different scenes. It made the whole process of planning, filming and editing my movie a lot easier as I could show my progress in stages throughout the project.  It also allowed potential viewers to see the progress of the film and make any comments along the way.

Video Blocks: because I had access to Video Blocks, I could use a variety of stock clips legally in my production. Credit has been given.

Overall the most important factor of using this technology was the opportunities it brought in terms of production valves, editing, special effects, which in the end makes the video more appealing to my target audience.


On the downside of technology the first edit corrupted which was very frustrating. There was also a number of issues uploading photos and films to Blogger from school. I got around this by working at home.
Although Survey Monkey was good it was limited due to the number of responses I could collect which could make my research inaccurate.