Question 6 - What have you learned about technologies while constructing this project?

From this project I have learned a lot about a multitude of technology and how it can be used to benefit me and my end project, I have used many different pieces and types of technology in various different ways.
For starters I have used programmes at college such as iMovie and Final Cut Express to do the video editing and other post production effects like adding sound to the movie and editing it aswell so we could make it fit our film, adding other things like a fake news house style and a moving background of the Old Mill Lane College building helped to make it look professional. I also used word processing packages and presentation software such as Microsoft Powerpoint and celtx to make scripts and also did some small picture editing because its a lot harder to use images on blogger. There were benefits to using these editing softwares, such as iMovie comes free on all iMac's and final cut express allowed for everything including sound, images, templates for backgrounds and the actual film to be edited all in one place instead of having to separate them all and then bring them to a master document where they could be combined. Celtx also had some advantages in this area such as when it came to writing scripts you could get a really good layout by using a template instead of having to manually create the script aesthetic, powerpoint also helped with displaying lots of information in a way that was readable but would still look good as well, its also a software that's widely available and has equivalents across a bunch of different operating system which makes swapping between home use and college use very easy.
I also learned about how to use some online entities like royalty and copyright free music to make the sound in our project useable and I used this website Blogger to post about our experience and path we took while creating our film. The benefits to the royalty free music were that we could use some music that we liked without getting charged to show it or getting marked down because we didn't have the right copyright certificates however the downsides were a very prominent issue because you had to find a trustable website first that had been verified to provide good content and eve when you did find a song you liked they were few and far between so it could be hard to find the right ones that everyone would agree on. The benefits to blogger were that it was online so it could be accessed anywhere and it was free so we didn't have to spend money on downloading any software but the disadvantages were that it could be temperamental and could have some login issues, it also had a very weird sense of layout with images and text and could sometimes be a real pain to create a good enough standard of work.
I used hardware such as iMac computers to do all the more theory side of things like documenting my thought process and progression throughout the making of the film, I used all of the programmes on them and accessed the online entities through logging on to the internet on them. There were many advantages to the iMac's such as being able to access the internet quickly and use programs that wouldn't be available elsewhere in college, however these also came with disadvantages like sometimes we would not be able to connect to the internet and therefore couldn't get any blog work done without moving to somewhere else. The other piece of hardware I used was a Panasonic video camera and a metal tripod, these were used to film the scenes and it taught me a lot about using the correct lighting and making sure everything in scene should be there. The panasonic cameras had some really good attributes to them such as they were compatible with many different tripods, they were portable and came with a hard shell carry case, they were easy to use with no extra input needed to work them and they had enough battery life off of one charge for us to do a whole day of filming scenes for our project or filming interviews or the preliminary exercise. The only downside to this camera was that it was quite flimsy and could be broken if dropped meaning we had to handle it very carefully and some filming environments would not be a suitable option because of this.