WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM

THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS

PRODUCT?

Evaluation 6

The equipment: Sony Bloggie

Pros:- Small and convenient (slim and light (125g and 15.2mm))- Full HD video (1920x1080p) resolution with sound.- 12.8 megapixel – Exmor CMOS Sensor captures clear, high quality still photos. - Easy operation with separate ‘movie’ and ‘photo’ buttons and intuitive touchsrceen interface.

Cons: - Video quality not as professional as the DSLR cameras.- Not many advanced settings such as setting the contrast, brightness and not able to add effect.- The sound quality is quite poor, may not capture the important bits.

Nikon D5100Pros:- Great quality image (16.2 MP) captures moments in full HD

1080p.- Flexible shooting with the 3.0” 921k dot vari-angle LCD

Monitor – easy to see from many angles without having to move the actual camera lens.

- Has many professional affects, allows to adjust the contrast, lighting and exposure. 7 unique special effects modes can be applied to both stills and movies.

- 11-point autofocus. Lens allows to zoom in and out of the action letting us create the best shots possible.

Cons:- Very short battery life – around 2 hours max. Prevented us

from being able to do more scenes, wasted time and may have died in the middle of an important scene.

- The memory card only had 16GB which meant we had to delete work that wasn’t as important but then we got a spare memory card.

- Quite large, meaning can be uncomfortable to carry around especially because we filmed in a park so we had to walk to our destination of filming.

- Expensive to replace – can break easily and can be stolen. - Complicated to use at times.

Tripod vs. MonopodPros:- Hama star 61 tripod – cheap, lightweight tripod, practical to use as easy to get off the site, it also

secured the camera on top well and kept it in place so we didn’t have to hold it and created straight scenes without the shaking of hands etc.

- Manfrotto MM294A4 294 Aluminium Monopod – lightweight, allowed us a variety of movement for the camera, also secured the camera well on top, easier to get into smaller places.

Cons:- The handle for the tripod was sometimes very stiff which prevented us from having smooth

movement .- The monopod only had one leg which meant we always had to hold.

Directional Microphone: Hama RMZ – 16 Zoom Directional microphone

Pros:- Compatible with camcorders, SLR camera and

system cameras with stereo microphone input 3.5mm. This allowed us to connect the microphone to most of our devices so was very convenient.

- Clear, high quality sound for video. Picked up the sound better than a DSLR.

- Normal sensitivity of – 50 dB +1-5dB and zoom sensitivity of -46 dB + 1-5dB.

Cons:- Had to be further away from the characters so it

didn’t go into the shot, which prevented from getting the best sound quality.

- Inconvenient as had to carry it everywhere and takes up a lot of space.

Olympus Audio RecorderPros:- MP3 format, easy to put on other devices and online services.- High-speed USB connection – quick connectivity allowed the work to get finished quicker. - 46GB of built in memory – can record as much as you want.- Low cut filter for noise reduction whilst recording, blocking out the harsher sounds of vehicles

etc.- ME-52 plugs directly into digital recorder 3.5mm microphone jack for uni-directional recording in

high noise environment.

Cons:

- The battery life is short and it can also be inconvenient as its used with batteries so if there were no spare ones we could not be able to use it.

Main Lights: Strobe lightsCreates a dramatic scene in the darkness e.g. the solo zombie in the room.

Can adjust whether the light is flickering or not which gives us options depending on the mood we want to set.

Clear and bright lights. We used to different coloured lights – blue and white which gave cool undertone to our scenes.

ComputerPros:- The most important item through the process –

this allowed us to edit our videos, blogs, gave us access to the internet to the further research into zombie films, and other services such as powerpoint, word, youtube and prezi.

- A lot of memory so was able to store all of our information.

- Everything was in one place very convenient.

Cons:- Can’t carry it around with us so can’t always

have access to our stuff.- Crashed a couple of times e.g. the adobe

premiere which made us lose important work and had to start over which wasted time.

- Can be slow connection at times on the internet or no access at all which also prevented us from doing extra work.

Software: Adobe Premiere

Source Monitor and effects monitor.

Programme Monitor

Project manager and effects manager

Timeline

This let us edit the scenes by adding effects such black and white, slow motion, changing the colour of the scenes, different transitions such as fade out.

Able to see how our product looked at each stage, we could zoom in and see if anything need to be retouched.

The timeline is where we edited the clips, cutting them, matching the music and see the time that it has taken. This allowed me to get the jump cuts perfected.

Easy to import HD clips and has a dropped down of over 50 effects and transitions making our work much more professional and detailed.

Prezi/SlidesharePros:- I used this as one of my evaluation methods and also planning and research which gave a

variety of internet resources used. - Can choose from a wide variety of designs giving a more unique presentation on my blog.- I learned to create interesting slideshows without much difficulty, very smooth transitions and

easy to work. - Video clips can be added to give more information.

Cons:- I was not able to add Gif’s to it which prevented me from being able to explain what I was writing

in more detail. - Can be confusing to use at times, and cannot put it straight onto my blog only the link to my

prezi presentation.

YouTubePros:- I used this service to upload all of our media

videos and my preliminary task. - Very easy to upload and access anywhere

anytime. - The uploads were considerably fast and with

very few glitches.- Able to put onto my blog by copying and

pasting the URL.

Cons:

- Sometimes it took up to 3 hours to upload a video which wasted time.

WordPress

- Has a wide variety of themes to chose from to make your blog interesting and personal.- You can add a banner on the top.- Uploads images, videos, PowerPoint's etc.- Easy to use and work, very straight forward which is a positive because when you need to

upload something quickly its easy to access and very quick.- Allowed me to record the stages of my planning and research, production, post-production and

evaluation.

PhotoshopPros:- Many tools and options that allowed me to create a poster for the opening scene. - Many effects available e.g. changing the brightness, contrast, undertones, colour, shadows. - Easy to add writing and other images.

Cons:

- Can get complicated and difficult to use.