CCR Research Question 4

 Research 

How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

We integrated software like Canva for the creation of our company logo and for the design and creation of the signature prop of our film opening, the "Calling Card." The most important software we used was ClipChamp which is where we edited our film. We used ClipChamp for several reasons such as it being provided by the school, relatively easy to use, and had a feature which allowed us to tweak with various settings like the brightness, volume, fading, and other such settings like that. For hardware integration we were rather limited as we didn't have many hardware tools at our disposal. Neither of us had anything like a flash drive to work at school or a tripod for stable shots. We did however use a selfie stick that my dad had found in our garage to keep the shots more stable and steady. For filming our film we switched between each other's phones (Mainly mine and Lucas') so we see whose phone quality was better. For online resources, one key one would be this very platform Blogger as we used it record our progress and thought process throughout the entire project. Other key online resources that we used were Pixabay and BenSound for some of the sound effects and the background music for the opening. They were extremely useful as all of the effects and music was copyright free and the platforms themselves were provided by the teacher.

Script

The fourth and final question I will be answering is how did you integrate technologies -software, hardware and online - in this project? For the production and creation of our company logo and Calling Card prop. Marat did most of the work in this part as he created the Calling Card practically by himself and created our logo after spitballing ideas about its name and what it should look like. Of course the most important software that we used was ClipChamp as it is where we edited our film opening. We learned how to use this software earlier during the year and we decided to use it because it appeared less complex than Adobe Premiere and allowed us to mess with several settings such as the brightness, volume, fading, and other features of our opening. We didn't use all that many hardware tools as we didn't have things like a tripod to film stable shots automated stable shots or a flash drive to store all of our shots and data. We did however have a selfie stick that my dad had found in the garage which helped us film more stable shots albeit not automatically. We also used several different phones for the filming process (Mostly being mine and Lucas') we switched between each other's phones to see which one had the best quality and the best flashlight. For another hardware device that we used was a portable light that we could adjust the brightness of which helped a lot when creating the lighting for several of the shots. For online resources, one of the ones we used was Blogger as it was essential for recording our progress and keeping track of what we needed to do each week. They were a massive aid in answering these questions as we could access them to review on what we did for each of these sections. Other important online resources was Pixabay and BenSound as they were essential to collecting the sound effects and background music for our opening. They were extremely useful as all of the effects and music was copyright free and was provided to us by our teacher. That'll be all, I hope you enjoyed Calling Card and thank you for watching.