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  6. What haveyou learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
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  Research-Art of thetitle • We did lots of research prior to planning and producing our final opening sequence. • Our research started at the website ‘artofthetitle.com’ which helped us look around at the different types of opening sequences that have been produced and the ideas that we did and didn’t like. This helped us decide on the style we wanted for our own opening sequence.
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  Research-YouTube • Once wehad decided on a brief idea of what we wanted to produce we did more specialized research that focused directly on what we wanted to do. • Using YouTube we watched a variety of opening sequences and got most of our inspiration from ones produced by Disney, such as Cinderella. By doing this we got lots more ideas and it gave us an even clearer picture of what we were going to produce.
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  Research-YouTube • We alsoused YouTube when it came to producing our story board. For this we researched scenes filmed in library's and found a very useful one from the film Se7en. • By watching this we were able to see what kind of shots and camera angles looked effective and it gave us inspiration when coming up with our own shots to draw up our story board.
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  Research- Tutorials • FinallyI used YouTube, along with other tutorials, another time when we decided we were going to do some sort of animation. • I had no idea how to do animation and found out that I would need to use flash to do this so decided to briefly watch different tutorials and read up on how to use the program.
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  Planning • When wehad a very clear idea on exactly what we were going to do we decided to double check a few extra things before we began filming. • This included going to our venue (Peterborough library) and planning out how we were going to film certain shots, where the lighting was best, what time of day would be best(when is least busy) and simple things like making sure the camera battery is charged. • By doing this we were able to get the filming done quick and efficiently in the future.
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  Construction-Camera • To completefilming we had to learn how to use the camera we were given. • This wasn’t particularly hard in general but to film some of our shots with the effect we wanted I had to figure out how to put the camera on manual focus and then film the shots a few times to get the final product right and how we had imagined it too look.
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  Construction- Editing • Afterwe had all of our filming we had to transfer the clips on to the mac ready for editing. • The original file format did not work on the macs and so we had to try out a variety of formats to work out which one worked best on the mac.
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  Construction-Final Cut Pro •After we had found the correct format for our videos we began to start editing. • To do this we used final cut pro which we had never used before. I have used other software similar to this and so just had to adapt my knowledge to learn how to use the programme and start editing.
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  Construction- Adobe Illustrator •When it came to producing the animation at the end of our opening sequence I had to learn how to use the software ‘Illustrator’ to complete this. • Using illustator was one of the hardest things to learn while producing our opening sequence but I did this via tutorials and getting advice and teaching off other people.
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  Construction- Adobe PremierePro • I used this programme to put together my final clip that zooms in to the illustration and turns in to a cartoon. • This was fairly similar to Final Cut Pro and so I just adapted my knowledge from that.
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  Construction- Garage Band •To produce the music for our opening sequence we had to learn the basics of garage band. • Luckily I have a friend who could help us a lot with this and we were able to make a final sound track to put over the top of our opening sequence.
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  Evaluation-Feedback • When wehad finished our opening sequence we decided to get a variety of feedback to see if there was anything we could change and make better. • We firstly showed our teacher a number of times who gave us feedback on certain shots that could be made shorter and how we could film other shots slightly differently to make them look more effective. • We took on board all of this feedback and made the appropriate changes to out final sequence.
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  evaluation • The othertype of feedback we got was via questionnaires. We made two questionnaires, one for out target audience (children) and one for there parents. • This enabled us again to take on board what they had said and make changed to our opening sequence so that the final piece is as good as it can be. • From this we added and took away a variety of things including, production logos at the start and more establishing shots showing the girl walking around.