Evaluation 6:

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When we had the task of editing our work and we were told to use Adobe Premier Elements I looked at it and I seriously had no idea. I was very reliant on my teachers and my friends but they seemed to be in the same situation. Learning how to use the Adobe became very stressful and it took up quite a bit of time just getting the hang of the little details but I finally got there. Even though we lacked in confidence and ability on how to use the Adobe our project was made to a high standard which we hope will stand out to the target audience we aimed it at. The three main things as a group we thought made our opening two minutes effective was how to cut and match footage, the sound and how to make titles. The editing skill which stood out and made it easiest for our group to edit was to cut and match footage, this cut out the jump shots which would have made the our footage seem unprofessional and would show we had basic knowledge on what we were doing. To make the opening two minutes more effective and show the emotion of the actors as there was not much dialogue between the characters, there was an option to add sound. This helped our opening two minutes to become as effective as it could be and helped the audience to gain tension which is the response we wanted to create. There was also an option to add in our titles for our production credits and for the film, the production credits made the opening two minutes as realistic as possible. We also added our title 'Follow your tracks' and we put it in the format which we wanted and were able to leave it on the screen for as long as we wanted to create a good image in the audience's heads so they remember the title and they tell everyone around them, causing us to gain a wider audience. As not mentioned above the Transitions also made it easy to edit and make it effective. This gave us a variety of editing skills we could use. For example being able to fade in and fade out, this made the opening two minutes have a mysterious to it - again causing tension. 

Although our camera in which we used to film was very high quality and it filmed our work in HD definition and because we were limited to the computers we used as we did most of our work at school, the computer didn't like it and wasn't as efficient as it could have been. So it became difficult to edit as we had to keep rendering it and it was very jumpy through scenes, but eventually we got it to the standard we wanted it to be. The camera we used was a Canon 1200D which had 1080p HD movie recording. The reason we had an advantage to use this was  because one of the members in our group does photography and she generously said we could use it to make our opening two minutes to the best quality it could be.