Question 6 answered by Grainne: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout the process of creating our final product we have used a diverse amount of software both via the web, and through software which is installed onto the PC themselves. The first major piece of software we used on the Apple Macs is Final Cut Pro. This was the editing software we had used for the preliminary task and for the final open sequence.

This sofware allowed us to place all our cut scenes into seperate, organised folders, in order to help create a sequence along a timeline which in the end created our final sequence. It also allowed us to place voice overs onto our sequence of clips, as done in our preliminary task. Another piece of software we used in conjunction with this was Soundtrack Pro.

Here we were able to create the short piece of music over the beginning of our montage of titles. Due to the detailed timing on both Soundtrack Pro and Final Cut Pro, we were able to create a perfect fit and create a fade out also which was good for when we created sound bridges into another edit.

In Soundtrack Pro we were able to not only select through different genres and snippets of music, we were also to pick sound effects that were both reallistic and over the top.

Another key, important piece of equipment was the camera with which we recorded our whole sequence with and the tri-pod which gave us our level and professional shots.

These were less complicated to figure out then the pieces of software on the computer, mainly due to the user friendliness of the equipment and previous experience with similar products.

A programme we used via the internet was You Tube. This of course was used for us to upload our sequences and embed them to our blog, and in some cases peer review videos in order to give constructive criticism for our peers to act upon.

If we wished to, we could also annotate out video via you tube in order to perhaps analyse our video. We used it to research our genre previously in our blog and again, embedded videos to our blog.

Another useful programme we used was Prezi. We used this more than once in our blog because we felt it was a great way to present the information we wished to convey.

We could choose to add a You Tube video, pictures, and bits of text in a creative way.

We found the technology to be both creative and limiting. We were able to present research on our blog iniverse ways but then we were also unable to create the exact opening sequence we wished to. We had also experienced problems with the Macs and the storage system which was an annoyance.