Film Production Evaluation Question

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?
As far as equipment goes our group has used the same set of instruments
for both the preliminary task and the examined film opening:

Canon DSLR

Tripod

MacBook Pro

iMovie

The jump from the SD camcorder to the DSLR better, everything about the
DSLR was an improvement. We were then able to film in full HD and have
full control over all the settings of the camera allowing us to achieve clear
but focused long shots. Also another feature would be that we could
change the lenses on the camera to give our production a wider variety of
shots such as Establishing shots, close-ups est. Finally the weather sealing
on the DSLR meant that the camera was able to be operated in the poor
weather conditions we were shooting in.
Throughout the filming process myself and Adam both took it in terns in
using the camera equipment as we both had separate roles within our
production. When we had completed our filming we both had to edit our
video, Adam done most of the editing himself where as i was coming up
with ideas for a title sequence and logo planning. But during my past
productions i have used this type of editing software before.
However, there were some limitations with the technology we had. IMovie
is not the
Most advanced editing software available which meant that we couldnt
achieve some of the desired effects in post-production. E.g. Colour mixing
was used but it was not as subtle as the look we were going for due to this
software. Following on we were able to import our film succefully to imovie
and had no problems editing it and even though it wasnt the best
software we could use it still helped us complete and edit our product to
our liking.
For the background music we used a royalty free website that would allow
us to download for free non copyrighted music. In the early stages of
planning we used the simple Microsoft PowerPoint as a means of
distributing a questionnaire in order to gain feedback from a variety of

people on the dystopian film genre. Our initial plan was to use the video
editing software Motion to digital impose more sophisticated titles over
our original production. But because of the limited access for software and
the limit on time we came to the conclusion that the standard iMovie titles
would have to be sufficient for our needs.