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

Before this task, I had never really usen a Mac before, but now I am starting to get my head around them. The video camera was quite easy to get used to, however I wasn't filming most of the time, I was mainly directing. On the Macs we used iMovie and learnt how to edit on there, this was the hardest part.

iMovie:

• Once you get used to iMovie, it is quite easy to use and the timeline is very useful at the bottom. It is so very easy to add music and titles to the scenes and cut them exactly to create seamless scenes.
• There was a great variety of music and accents to choose from. This allowed us to change the mood of our film completely, from thriller to horror to comedy or romance. It was hard to get the right sounds to fit with the scenes but the choice was nice to have.

Equipment:

• We have realised how useful tripods are. Ours helped us out a lot when the cameraman would start laughing and shake the camera, however, we tended not to use it as it wasn't as mobile as we would have liked. We settled for tops of heads and shoulders to rest on.
• In a photography class, we learnt about lighting and I think it would have been very useful to use a reflector to lighten up the scene a tad. Although this effect would have made it seem more professional, there is am element of 'meeting secretly' with the dark room, that adds to the sense of a thriller.

Hosting:

• By creating this blog, I have learnt how easy it is to broadcast ideas and thoughts to the internet and get feedback. You can write whatever you need and someone can comment and reply and all that you have written is there for you to loook back on. It would be very useful in the future to host plans, proposals and ideas beforehand and during the filming/producing so that nothing is left out or forgotten.
• Youtube is also very useful as it allowed for uss to host our film for the internet to see and judge. This accessability is useful as it means we don't have to drag people up to the media room to watch the film and give us feedback there and then. They are able to comment when and where they like and rewatch the film.