Altima Kaisamba's evaluation: Question Six

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

During this production I have had to familiarise myself with using iMac. It took a few days to become comfortable with using the software as I only use Microsoft on a daily basis. We used iMovie to create our opening. Using iMovie to create our film proved how easy and accessible film making was for people. Although the software is complex and there is a lot to learn and remember, the film making process is a straight forward one. I learnt how to import filmed material, edit, cut and arrange filmed material. During the very time consuming editing process we encountered some problems with the dialogue during the gate scene. In order for the viewer to hear what the care taker was saying we had to re-record his voice outside, in order to match the atmospherics, and synchronize the audio with the video. This is shown below.

I was especially pleased with our filming. Due to careful storyboarding, the filming process was easier as we knew exactly what we wanted to shoot. Some of the shots were difficult to construct however, with careful positioning, sometimes awkward, we managed to shoot what we wanted.

As well as learning how to create the opening of our film with iMovie, I also learnt how to use Logic Pro. As we were not allowed to use copyrighted music, we had to compose our own music. I was kindly allowed to use my neighbours studio, and create a piece on Logic. It was a very complicated software to use, however, with some assistance I managed to create a short piece that matched our opening. Unfortunately, the rest of my group didn't like the music, so instead we looped an extract of a piece one of our classmates composed for us.

Finally, I learnt to export our finished product, convert the file and upload it onto YouTube. It was my first time uploading a video on to YouTube and it made me aware of how easy it is to share projects such as my own. Overall, I learnt a lot about using iMovie and operating apple software which enabled our group to produce a finished opening to the best of our ability.