AS Media Technology PowerPoint

1. What have you learnt about the
technologies from the process of
constructing your product?

2. Due to me being a previous photography student, I had some
knowledge of how to work cameras. I had used the Cannon
cameras before, so had some experience of using it. I used a
Cannon EOS 600D.
I had the focus on manual, so I could focus it myself as I was
filming close up objects. It was important that I had focused on
the right bit of the object, so the key areas I wanted to be
highlighted were focused. I didn’t have much trouble focusing
and setting the camera on the tripod made it a lot easier, as the
key areas stayed in focus throughout the filming. I used a Tripod
in all of my filming and the tripod helped a lot in making the
camera keep still and so I could film different angles such as
putting the Tripod on the chair, and on the table but making it
smaller. The Tripod also benefited so what I filmed weren’t
shaky, as if they were it would have been really obvious.
The camera and Tripod worked well together and I didn’t have
any problems while working with both.
Camera and Tripod

3. When it came to editing my film, I used Adobe
Premier Pro CS5 throughout my whole film. I had
originally planned to do different effects in Adobe
After Effects but found this very complicated and
didn’t fit in well, so I stuck to using Premier Pro.
I found it quite easy to
edit after I understood
the basics of using this
piece of software. I had
never used anything like
it before so it was new to
me. I got used to it
relatively quick and
managed to complete my
film quite easily. I didn’t
have many problems
using this
software, however I did
have to ask for help as I
wanted to add in a flash
effect which can be seen
throughout my film-one
cuts to another with a
black flash.
I found this piece of software very compatible with what I was
aiming to achieve- getting the video clips to go with the sound
which required cutting to clips fast. I think Premier Pro was perfect
for the job.
Editing Software

4. Blogger
Another technology I got used to using is the website where we upload all of
our work; Blogger. At first I found this site quite difficult to use as I had never
used it before, but I got the hang of it after a while. I found the site very
effective to use as it sorts the work out, putting it into a formal presentation.

5. Prezi, Voki and others - Embed
From this AS media course I have learnt how to
use different technologies, one of them is a
website called Prezi, and from this I learnt to
embed. Prezi was a very useful and creative
website that I used a lot throughout my work to
present my work in a creative way. From this I had
to Embed my work and put the code into Blogger.
At first I found this difficult to do, as it was hard to
find where the Embed code was located. After
searching, I eventually found it and was relatively
easy to Embed.
Another example of a website I used
for Embedding is ‘Voki’. I used many
different sites such as survey monkey
to record a survey, and slideshare and
scribd to upload powerpoints I had
made. I learnt how to use the websites
scribd and slideshare, which was very
effective to upload my work to my
blog. Voki was also a popular website
as it represented my target audience
greatly with what they looked like, and
their interests through speaking.