We used FinalCutPro to edit our footage together to make our final production. It is a very easy to use editing software that edits to a very good quality. It was very quick to learn and allowed us to edit exactly what we wanted. The blade tool was especially effective as it enabled us to cut clips into smaller parts and then move them, creating lots of quick cuts. The blade tool also allowed us to get rid of the start, middle and end of each clip very easily as the clips were filmed from multiple angles, we didn't want to show the same footage twice. The blade tool was extremely helpful as it gave a very precise cut allowing us to cut to the correct place where the footage didn't repeat yet didn't miss any of the clip either. The layered structure was also very simple to understand. It made it very easy to place sound at the correct point so it stops and starts at the same time as the clips. The layers also meant that adding overlays at the right place was very easy. We could make the overlay come at the start of the clip but then go at the end very simply. Overall, FinalCutPro was excellent to use as it was very easy to learn and understand from a beginners point of view.We used Gmail to email our ideas and work to each other, and also a middle step to put text messages onto out blog and to put our production onto YouTube. Gmail is very simple to use as it was very easy to use and is very user friendly. It made emailing work to each other very simple and could be accessed from both school and home. This allowed us to do some work at home and then email it and use it at school easily.
We used Prezi and PowerPoint to make our slide shows. Prezi was a bit annoying to use at first but once we got a hang of it, it became better and easier. It is a good way to make slide shows not boring as the slides all have their own circles in one big background. This makes it more interesting to watch from an audiences perspective as it is much more visual than a standard PowerPoint. We used PowerPoint to begin with which is so much simpler to use and is so much more user friendly. However it wouldn't ever work on a blog as it's not on the internet. This created a very annoying issue as I had to copy and paste all the work on the PowerPoint onto Prezi which took a lot of time as Prezi did not like the font used and changed all the colours of the font. This was very fiddly changing everything as Prezi had a very different format. On top of that, Prezi has templates for each background, and the majority come with 6 bubbles. This was frustrating as my PowerPoint's had multiple slides more than 6 so I also had to add, size and position the bubbles and ad new text boxes to each one.To film our production, we used a GoPro Hero3+ to film the underwater shots. I had an app on my phone which made filming with it very simple. The app allowed us to control the GoPro from a distance to which we could stop and start the recording, and also check the angle as the GoPro does not have a screen on it. the GoPro was also very good as it's completely waterproof with the correct case. This allowed us to film very high quality shots from under the water. This allowed us to create some very interesting angles and utilise our creativity. We used a GoPro pole, a float pack and a head mount to aid us with the shots. They allowed us to drop the camera in the water and for it to float on top, just like the body would do when he fell in. the pole was used to ensure we got the right angle of the camera falling in to replicate the motion of the body as it was thrown into the pool. The GoPro was also used to film the security camera shots in which we held the GoPro on the end of the pole and rotated it very slowly. The GoPro allowed us to film very high quality footage using some interesting angles.
We also used a Nikon D3100 to film the main shots with a 18mm-55mm lens. This is a very good quality camera filming at a resolution of 1920p-1080p and 24 frames per second, allowing us to produce very good shots for our production making it look as professional as we possibly could. We used the Nikon on a tripod to create a nice and stable shot. The tripod was very good as the legs could be extended to ay length needed meaning the camera can be very high up or quite low to create lots of different camera angles. The tripod also allowed us to create panning shots very easily as the tripod had a spinning mount meaning we could rotate the camera a full 360 degrees if needed.
We used YouTube to as a media platform in which we uploaded all our videos we filmed. This included our focus group, before and after our production, our preliminary task and our video of the different camera angles, as well as the actual final production itself. YouTube seemed to create many issues because FinalCutPro didn't like to upload to YouTube easily. However we did manage to get around the issue and when we knew how to, it was much easier to upload the videos to YouTube.
Finally we used blogger to post everything in one place. Blogger has been easy to use, although at times it has been very frustrating. It is really bad when copying and pasting images which got very annoying on a few of the posts, in particular the post showing the questionnaire results and the pie charts. This post was also difficult to do as blogger did not like the pie charts I was trying to insert in. This made it very hard and the problem was tough to solve as the pictures just didn't want to show. The only other issue with Blogger is that the spell check is American so regularly words are changed to american spellings. On top of that, the spell check doesn't pick up on lower case 'i' and so you have to pay extra attention to make sure you capitalise it.
Overall, new technology has allowed us to make a better quality production than if we made it 10 years ago. The quality of cameras have improved overtime and have become more affordable as well making it easier to make productions such as ours. The GoPro is able to film underwater at a very high quality which would never have been a thing many years ago and is revolutionary. This improved our production and allowed us to use many more camera angles and make it better for the audience. It has also allowed us to make it accessible to the entire world on youTube (although it won't go global, it has the potential to be).
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