Review of Equipment

Software

We used garage band to create our soundtrack. It was hard to use because it needs to be created from scratch and express our ideas from only being able to use the limited samples available. In some ways it was helpful because we could listen back at our work.

To create our opening we would need to use final cut express. It was quite easy to learn how to use as we already had experience of using it. Also, we were able to watch our edited clips. The process of editing takes a long and learning how to do special effect often took extra time.

When creating our production logo, we needed to use photoshop. We had experience in this also but with a different version of photoshop so some of the our ideas did not look as we planned. Sadly we were not able to take our on photos so our images had to come from clip art.

A lot of times we need to upload pictures from a camera for things such as location checking. For this we used iphoto. this wasn't helpful because the photos would not come straight to the desktop. However we were able to just drag and drop them out of iphoto to anywhere and uploading pictures only took one click.

Blogger, the website we used to display our work was simple and easy to use but worryingly everyone else was able to get to our work and edit it as well, this felt unsafe.

Hardware

The cameras we used to film with were high definition. Also, they were small and light weight which meant it was easy for us to take them to filming locations. However, being small, they were hard to handle sometimes. They did unfortunately pick up a lot of background noise, this meant we weren't able to hear speech too well.

Because the cameras were sometimes hard to handle, we would often need to use tri-pods to steady our shot. It was able to change to many different heights and lengths but not enough for when we needed to do some high angled shot.

The compact cameras we used to take pictures of our work on paper and our location searching, were very useful because they only took 2 minutes to upload to the blog.