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

Question 5 - Technology

Weebly

Weebly proved to be one of the most difficult technology to use in my opinion. I really struggled to embed the different presentations into the right page. It was also really difficult to edit font and text size. Changing the home screen image was also really difficult. I found that Weebly, despite looking simple, was actually really challenging to control and get it to do what I wanted it to do. Weebly was difficult at first but luckily I learnt how to do most of the things that I couldn’t do at the start.

However as I went along I learnt how to correctly embed the videos and change the image on the home screen.

Although I still can’t figure out how to change the font or text size.

Vimeo and YoutubeVimeo was a completely new website for me to use. It is quite similar to Youtube however it is on a smaller scale. Over the course I learnt how to upload my videos onto Vimeo and also how to embed my videos from Vimeo onto my blog. All together I posted around 10 videos onto Vimeo including preliminary tasks and focus group videos. I was already quite familiar with

Youtube however I had never uploaded a video to it before. I used Youtube to upload my video diary entries during the course. In addition I learnt to embed these from Youtube onto my blog.

Final Cut ProFinal cut pro was definitely the hardest technology I learnt to use during the course but it was definitely the most useful. I learnt how to cut each shot and edit it smoothly together. I also learnt how to add different transitions and place titles onto my opening sequence. In addition I experienced how to edit sound together and separate the audio from the video. However my favorite thing that I learnt was piecing my film all together. This was the most fun because you got to see your film being created and being built up from lots of separate shots. One thing I found really difficult when using this software was keeping continuity. In my preliminary piece, ‘The conversation’ ,we had to cut and put back together audio which was definitely difficult.

iPads and HD Cameras

The first camera we learnt to use was on the iPad. This camera was easy to use however there were a few issues we had to overcome. For instant the camera was always really zoomed in when we filmed which meant we had to stand really far away in order to get some of the shots that we wanted. It was also quite difficult to take the footage off the iPads without plugging it into a computer.

The second camera we learnt to use was a handheld camcorder. During a workshop I learnt how to turn it on and off, take the footage off the camera, how to charge it, ho to record and how to pause it too.

Presentation software

These are the four main types of presentation I learnt to use. My favorite is Prezi but the most difficult to use was definitely Powtoon.

Prezi Visme

eMaze Powtoon

Other technologies

Scribd Slideshare

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