Evaluation...Question 6.

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

With our media production we have used basic Sony camcorders to record the footage with a tripod included, We used the tripod to get steady shots like the kind used to film the waterfalls. We used this in a way which we could set it up to record then leave it for five or six minutes to ensure the footage we recorded was still and correct. I have learnt that with shooting skills it is important for camera angles and lighting to be taken into account. The angles would be able to affect how the audience portrays the current events and characters.  With the apple macs and Imovie I found out that effects can be added to clips and footage in order to change the atmosphere of our media. By using the macs in our preliminary we managed to ensure that the skills could be developed through trial and error and to build up these skills would show that I have developed in my editing as a whole.

With the camera tripod I was able to make sure that the camera was always stable and remained in the correct position. With a tripod we were also able to pan the camera a lot smoother than the camera if it was just handheld although we did not use pan. With the shot (left) we used a camera on a tripod and left it for about 5 minutes to ensure that we could speed this up without any frame wobbling. With framing we were aiming to that the characters were always in the centre or the middle third of the screen. In the preliminary task we made a mistake where in some of the shots Morris is on the left of the screen shifting focus from him to the stairwell. In our main task we were aware of this and so made sure that in every shot the characters were in the view of the audience.