What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your project?

From the project me and Kirsty have learnt a lot about technologies. To make our project, we had to use a video camera to film and record our voice-over as well as the editing software PremierPro. Before we started our final project, our experience with the editing software especially was limited and so we did learn through trial and error. From our first shoot which we followed the actors down a corridor on a wheelie-chair with the camera, we realised how important it is to use a tri-pod to make sure your shots are not shaky as this looks so unprofessional. Also we learn about technology during the project that with the cameras we had available, it is difficult to get clear sound; this is one of the reasons we decided to not have any dialogue except the voice-over which we could import over the action. If we had used dialogue, the sound might not have been very clear and that wouldn’t make our project look professional.

When editing our film we imported all our shots in the order we wanted them and then began editing them from there. We did require help in how to create the freeze-frames we used to show about each character and we had to be very meticulous about the timing when we put the words on screen. We had to adjust this later on again when we included the voice-over so it all matched up. In fact, we chopped some of the voice-over and pieced together the parts we wanted as the script we had wrote was actually too long for the film we had shot. However, we were glad that the voice-over was too long than too short as we know what it is like to not have enough footage to create something excellent. We learnt how to use the razor tool and ripple delete which made chopping parts of our film up easier and also helped us create the quick editing effect when the character Daniel is picking up his books and when Matt is walking out of the classroom. 

I think the most important thing we learnt about technology is that is can be very temperamental! During our first shoot, we had to end probably too soon as our camera ran out of charge and our tri-pod was broken on that first shoot. Although technology obviously helped us create Science Boys we learnt that you need to plan before hand well so that everything runs smoothly.