Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the construction of our media product we used many nessesary modern technologies, for example before the filming we conducted alot of research and planning on what we wanted to base our film and even more importantly our opening on. For this we used various search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. We learnt that without these search engines we wouldnt have been aware of the many ways we could create even more tension and atmosphere in our production such as when we used the idea of repeating the sound of the news report saying 'and the killers still out there' this we found from one of the websites we found on google.

 

 

 

The most useful piece of technology we used in the production  and post-production process was Premier Pro Version 6. This software allowed us to:

• Edit all of our shots including sound and special effects
• Taking out bad shots and importing the reshoots back in
• Time stretch the shots making the shots more dramatic
• Create titles to play over the shots

Premier was vital in helping us to create a sense of tension and atmosphere within our production and for us was the most important factor as otherwise our production would have no purpose or effect. We used specific eiditn skills such as exponential fade when our victim walked out the room we didnt just want the sound of the news report in the background to cut out so we faded it out until she got to the top of the stairs.

 

Blogger has contributed massively in our production as we have been able to log everything to do with the production onto blogger and analysis where we have made mistakes and where we need to improve and also what we have done well. Blogger is an easy way of accessing our work from both teacher and student’s point of view and the simplicity of it has helped us to be creative in however we wanted to be.

 

Throughout the construction of the film opening I have constantly been using my iPhone in every film shoot for communication, evidence for filming by photos and also in researching different sounds on YouTube. Smart phones are very useful technologies as they are portable and efficient which makes the process of production faster, especially saving time texting or skyping ideas or changes to Mollie and Dan.