Eval Q 6. Technologies

What have you learnt about technologies 

from the process of constructing this 

product?

BLOGGER:

Blogger Logo

Blogger is a useful technology in our project as it's where we keep all our research and it's where all the work that will be marked is stored, and when you publish a post you can embed videos and link words to useful sites that we can visit later if needed. Also for our evaluation questions all the pictures like screenshots for example that are stored on our blogs can be easily accessed to help answer the questions.

LIVETYPE:

LiveType Logo

This is the software we used to create our company ident which is important as we will use our idents in the film opening, it was complicated at first to use but with the help of John our media technician we soon got to grips with it.

FLASH:

I also used Flash to help make my ident for the animation in it, i then exported and finished it off in LiveType.

IMDb:

We use IMDb to find out information about the films we've been analysing or researching, information like casting, production companies/distribution companies, directors, budget/box office, etc. We also link to IMDb when we're using reference to the films in our blogs as it's a useful website to use for our coursework.

BOXOFFICEMOJO:

Also we used Boxofficemojo to get exact figures for the budget and box office if IMDb didn't have the figures.

YOUTUBE:

Youtube Logo

With Youtube we can embed videos that we need to our blogs , for example useful trailers of films we've analysed, and this is more efficient if we want to go back to them later rather than searching for them again. Also we've made youtube accounts where we can upload our vodcasts or clips that we've made which we then can embed into our blogs so Youtube is very useful for our projects.

FINAL CUT PRO:

Final Cut Pro

This is the software we use to edit and put together our clips that we've filmed or recorded, it's easy to use and still gives a great quality finish, which is good for us as first time film makers. Also when you've finished editing on final cut pro it's easy to export and share to youtube, and it's also simple to upload footage on to final cut pro then from there you can use all the tools to make a high quality edit.

BLOGGER & YOUTUBE & GOOGLE:

Insert Video Tool

Insert Image Tool

Here blogger and youtube are used together as we can upload clips from youtube, and also straight from our youtube channels this is because google owns both blogger and youtube so it's easy to use them all together is this case.

Also you can save images from Google Images and then import them easily into blogger when you want to do a post involving these images, and it's easily done by clicking the 'insert image' tool and then browsing for the images saved.

Add Link Tool

There's also an 'add link' tool where you can highlight a word like a film title then link it to the film's site or a site which we use regularly 'IMDb'.