When using our blogs we used quite a lot of different technologies. These were all done by uploading stuff onto posts, however there were several different types of things that we could upload to our blogs. For example, we had to make our blog posts visual so we uploaded a lot of images and videos to do this. This allowed us to display our work in quite a creative way because it enabled us to make our work look a bit more interesting and also it made it clearer what we were trying to show in places because if we was trying to describe something in a post you could just add it into the post so it's easier to understand what we were trying to talk about.
When filming our opening sequence we used the equipment you would expect us to use; the camera and tripod. I was fine with using this as I had used it before, but because I was being filmed for near enough the whole time I didn't really use it because I had to be in the shots. It was important that before we filmed though that we had planned in depth what we wanted to do so we could get the camera in the right place straight away to get the shot done as well as we could. Also we had to ensure that we used the tripod right because we have a couple on pan shots so we needed to ensure that they were smooth and did not look weird. This applied to most of our shots except for a couple of point of view shots. For some shots we had to film them a few times because the camera looked shaky or we hadn't framed the shot well enough to enable us to have everything in the shot that we needed to. When we began to edit on imovie it was quite easy and straight-forward because we knew what shot needed to go where and we knew what order they needed to go in. This was important that we knew this because we was able to put the shots in quickly and edit them correctly so that the continuity of our piece was accurate and made sense to the audience.
For the music of our opening sequence we went on www.freeplaymusic.com to get what we wanted. It was easy to get the music from the site onto imovie to have it in our piece. We had to download it onto itunes on the mac and then just go into sounds, then itunes while on imovie and just drag it into the spot on the timeline where we wanted it to go.
When we used livetype to do our titles I had no idea what I was doing or how to use it. This was a technology that i developed my skills in a lot because now I would probably be able to complete adding titles into an imovie project from livetype after editing them and getting them all in the right places. To use livetype well you need to have planned where you want your titles to appear, where they will go on the screen to be the most successful, and for how long they will need to be on the screen. We have had to re-do the titles on this programme quite a few times because whenever we do some editing on the sequence the length will either increase or shorten so the titles will move on the timeline so whenever we changed anything around we would then have to go back to livetype and sort out all of our titles.
For my eveluation blogs the technologies that I have used are quite similar to any of the other blog posts. The way that I have made them visual is by uploading images to make it clearer and easier to see what I am talking about when writing about a part of our film.
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