Evaluation Activity 6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• Canon mini DV camera - We used this to film our scenes. It was good when there was a lot of light and there was not much action, but when there was action, we encountered some blur and the camera was unable to pick up the picture so well when the environment was darker.
• Tripod - This was useful for keeping the camera still, although for our final scene in a police briefing room the tripod we used did not hold the camera well, and so someone had to hold it in place

Technologies used on the Mac

• iMovie - iMovie was used to edit our film. This was easy to use and it was possible to control many aspects of the video and audio. We could use video effects, such as black and white and slow motion and these were easy to apply. The sound effects were less easy to use as it is harder to layer the audio and to make subtle adjustments as a track goes along.
• Freeplaymusic.com - This is the website that we used to find the music that we used in the film. It was useful as there was lots of music on it and so we were able to find the right music that suited our sequence by choosing the atmosphere that we wanted to create and then being given a list of choices
• Prezi - We used this to analyse the openings of two gangster films. It was useful as you have more control over where everything is than on other similar technologies, such as powerpoint, although we found some bits hard, such as changing the fonts and colours of the writing
• Glogster - We used this to create a poster which analysed stills of the film 'Great Expectations'. It was useful as it is easy to annotate the stills and the fonts were easier to control than on Prezi
• Facebook - We used this to get photos of girls who had previously been murdered and this was easy to use
• Memory stick - We used this to  transfer pictures and audio between computers, such as our scream sound effect and this was useful as it enabled us to work on different aspects of the video on different computers and then easily combine them for the final product
• Youtube - We used this to get the openings of crime films, which we then analysed and used them to get ideas of how we could make our video effective. This was useful as the videos were easy to find and then could be easily imported into blogger
• Blogger - this was used to upload our work to the internet. it was easy to upload videos and posts from a variety of different sources and it was simple to arrange things on it and to create a unique look to the blog