During the research, construction/production and editing of our film opening we, as a group, used a lot of different digital technology. This included, the Internet (blogger), digital cameras, YouTube and the iMac's (iMovie).
Internet
To be able to research our film genre we needed the internet to search for all types of pictures, videos and helpful articles. The internet allowed me to search for all the websites such as Wikipedia etc. We also, obviously, used the website Blogger to construct these blogs. On our school computers it was not possible to access Blogger without downloading and installing Google Chrome first, this was a bit annoying but once it was done, it made blogging a lot easier.
Blogger is quick and easy to use and you are able to upload pictures, videos and links to your posts and publish them very easily. However, as I mentioned before it is not compatible with with certain school computers and there is a limited range of things you can include in your posts. For example, fonts, colours and effects which make the published posts seem a little dull.
Google chrome was helpful but as it was the only option when using Blogger, there was no other alternative. An advantage of it is that I could access Blogger at school and also at home. This made it easier to carry on working on my blog without having to send it home through an email or saving it on a memory stick. On the other hand you have to download Google Chrome to access Blogger each time you log onto the computers this took a considerable amount of time each lesson and it also had a habit of crashing, this meant losing all my progress which became very stressful and time consuming.
YouTube
The main advantage of using YouTube is that it is quick, simple and free to use. Also, it has a wide range of clips from past films all in one place, making it very easy to research my film genre and access a whole load of significant movie clips. A disadvantage is that there are a lot of unrelavent clips/videos so it could take a while to find the exact one you want.
Sony Digital Cameras
Advantages of these cameras include the fact that it is small, light and therefore easy to carry around. Also, the use of a tripod made the quality of filming a lot easier. However, its sometimes not compatible with the iMac's and in particular the iMovie programme which was important for both producing the continuity task and the main film opening. Making it very difficult at times to edit the footage on iMovie. Also, the sound quality on the cameras is not the greatest so sometimes it is hard to hear the dialogue. We avoided this problem by including no dialogue in our film opening, instead we included a voice over and the quality of this is much better.
Apple Mac's/iMovie
The best thing about the Mac's is that it uses the Safari web browser which is compatible with the blogger website, which meant that I didn't have to download Google Chrome meaning using blogger was quick and easy. However, it doesn't have networking and therefore all of our saved items on the other windows computer was not available when using the Mac. iMovie was also very easy to use and made editing both tasks very simple.
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