Evaluation Question 3
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iMovie – when it came to editing my opening sequence iMovie was fairly straightforward but it was a slow process . I found that the smallest details could make the entire film seem not right, such as one shot lasting a second too long but generally it was easy to correct this. Digital camera – the camera I used to film the opening sequence had a movie-shooting mode that was ideal to film in different kinds of lighting, so the shots with low-key lighting were still high definition. The only problem was that the camera didn’t always focus on moving objects, but I learnt that there is a setting that allows you to film with a fixed focus, rather than auto- focus. Blogger – this facilitated a more creative way of presenting work, rather than in the form of essay writing for example. Embedding Powerpoints and Prezis was not obvious at first but learning to do this meant the blog could be more interactive. Using videos and pictures was an easy way to make it more interesting, and the customisation settings meant that the blog could have a more personal visual style than essays, etc.. YouTube – uploading to YouTube with the videos in HD format took a long time but little quality was lost once they had processed. I learned that it is best not to allow YouTube to add any adjustments to the video such as stabilising shakiness because
Transcript of Evaluation Question 3
iMovie – when it came to editing my opening sequence iMovie was fairly straightforward but it was a slow process . I found that the smallest details could make the entire film seem not right, such as one shot lasting a second too long but generally it was easy to correct this.
Digital camera – the camera I used to film the opening sequence had a movie-shooting mode that was ideal to film in different kinds of lighting, so the shots with low-key lighting were still high definition. The only problem was that the camera didn’t always focus on moving objects, but I learnt that there is a setting that allows you to film with a fixed focus, rather than auto-focus.Blogger – this facilitated a more creative way of presenting work, rather than in the form of essay writing for example. Embedding Powerpoints and Prezis was not obvious at first but learning to do this meant the blog could be more interactive. Using videos and pictures was an easy way to make it more interesting, and the customisation settings meant that the blog could have a more personal visual style than essays, etc..
YouTube – uploading to YouTube with the videos in HD format took a long time but little quality was lost once they had processed. I learned that it is best not to allow YouTube to add any adjustments to the video such as stabilising shakiness because this actually made it worse.
SlideShare – uploading a slideshare was incredibly easy and looks good on the blog, although I felt that actually embedding it was an unnecessarily long process (copy embed link>click HTML on blog post> paste link> click Compose…). However I found that Slideshares are very accessible for other students as they can easily be found directly from the site.
Prezi – Prezi worked really well in terms of presentation, and it was a very versatile platform for parts of this project. Generally creating a Prezi was simple but the site occasionally glitches and this caused the presentations to mess up and fixing it was not always quick.
