Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

The camera we used to film in our main was new to us as none of us had used that sort of camera filming wise only for the preliminary, we shared the responsibility of cameraman between two of us but gradually became easier and quite fluent in the production process. The strengths were that the camera was HD and had good control with holding it. The weakness of the camera equipment was in small areas it’s difficult to manoeuvre and also the tripod was difficult to hold and move especially with the pan shot. We learnt whilst filming that particular shots would be more effective in this thriller genre, i.e. point of views and wide shots. After filming, we used the editing program called Final Cut Pro, I think that the editing software given to us has been very good to; also the fact that major films have used this software has made editing enjoyable too. At first we found it quite a struggle and gradually became more accustomed to it, in our preliminary we speeded up the ending and compared to our main, we used slow motion to come out of the flashback. Also we looked at possible transactions used in our main, mainly fades that represent time passed, and also we used brightness which reflected in the mise-en-scene with the location in the dark tunnel to lighten it up. Garageband has been very good in making good sound for suspense and terror with instruments like piano, cello and drums, and also converting it and you can export it into your editing piece. It only took us about 10-15 minutes to come up with a good sound to fit mainly the flashback scene. We also used Blogger to distribute our findings and work onto this technology and is a mix between social and educational which makes AS Media quite enjoyable, the strengths is, it can have as many posts as you can, you can label it and choose who actually wrote the post. The weakness of it is when adding an image or video it not free flowing like other services and is more static. We think our end product is very successful given the amount of time and effort put in, right at the start of this long process we would have not thought about this idea and implemented it well without the technology such as Garageband and Final Cut Pro. We can also take good experience with us into A2 Media Studies and learn from our weaknesses, we know that particular people in our group are good with certain technologies with George having a good understanding in Photoshop and he designed our logo in it.