What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Some of the technology i used to plan and create my thriller opening are as listed:

Blogger: This was a website the whole of my class used, to post information and research into the thriller genre, and different thriller openings such as the happening. This helped in the organisation of our thriller as we could see what research we had put on there, and we could look back at it for help.

Search Engines: such as google, yahoo and youtube to research into the thriller genre, from this we could view other thriller openings as a group, this helped us to find conventions which worked and which ones didnt.

Youtube and Facebook: After posting our thriller opening on youtube and facebook, we learnt what worked well with our target audience and what didnt, we got useful feedback from our peers, and constructive criticism that helped us in our evaluations.

Video Camera and Digital Camera: We used these two objects/items to shoot our thriller opening and to take pictures of our location, costumes and lighting. From using this we learnt how to get effective camera shots for our thriller opening, and what worked with our mise-en-scene.

iMovie: We used this program to edit our thriller opening, from using this we learnt how to add transitions, and the edit the thriller to an appropriate level of accuracy, and how to make it look effective.

iDVD: This was to add the finishing features such as adding a title screen and imputing our candidate names etc. This piece of programming is very useful, as it coverts our production into a file, which can then be burned onto a DVD.

During the shooting I learnt how to create effective shots through the placement of the camera and I have also learnt how to get steady camera shots by using a tripod, also through trial and error whilst shooting. Also during shooting I learnt that using the objects in the shot to frame shot worked well and created a good effective, such as some of the trees surrounding the barn. I also learnt how to set up a shot so that all could been seen, and nothing was out of the shot, also so that the lighting would not be a problem in the shot. I found that getting the right lighting could be quite effect, we was grateful that there was quite abit of sunlight, but the inside shots where fine as we turned the lights on.

I have learnt alot of ne w skills during the editing section, by using the macs, and the program iMovie, such as how to edit the film, such as adding transitions, ie fade to black, and fade to white. I also learnt how to split clips and duplicate them, this was very important as when i split the clips, it would be easier to delete that section of the clip. I also learnt how to remove audio from the clips, and how to speed the clip up or slow down the clip. This was effective as we removed all the audio from our clips so we had no dialogue, we then put a sound track over the top of the thriller opening.

We had some problems whilst acting, such as we couldnt add music on to our thriller piece, as we could not find the movie we had made on garage band.