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

We learnt various new skills from various media technologies. A particular one was the use of the Apple Mac comouters. Before beginning our media coursework Apple Mac computers were new to some of us. The layouts and features differ from a 'PC'.

We used a variety of other media technologies which help contribute to the completion of our coursework. A number of websites were used to help with the research and planning in pre production.

We used YouTube to research other film openings such as 'Silents of the lamb' and 'The Usual Suspects'. Our genre is a thriller, therefore the fims we researched on YouTube were of the same genre as our opening sequence. For example 'The Blaire Witch Project'. Watching this we started coming out with ideas on what we should include in our film sequence.

We also used the website called 'IMDB' to research more into these films, from this we learnt who the directors, stars and the running time was for the film.

We used the website Blogger to show all our pre planning and preperation for the preliminary task and main task. It shows everything we've done from the start of the coursework till the end.

We used an editing program called 'Final Cut Pro' which was fairly straightforward to navigate around as there was a help icon at the top of the page if we needed to find a certain effect or transition we could just type it in there and it would automatically find it for us to use. We used Final Cut Pro to capture all our clips and then rearrange them on the timeline. After this was completed we used a tool called 'mark in' and 'mark out' to crop out the clips that we didnt need.





We also used the college equipment which included digital camcorders and tripods, which were easy to use as they had the basic record, pause, rewind, fast forward and play functions. The tripods were easy to assemble as they just required us to open them up using the clips that were provided. When we were out on location filming, we learnt that without the tripod the camera footage is shaky and this wasnt the effect we wanted in our openibg sequence. There was a scene in our film where we didnt need the tripod and we wanted a shaky effect.

Whilst out filming we had to make sure that we recorded a gap before and after the clip we recorded so it would be easier to edit together and cut sections off without erasing the part of the clips that were essential. We also used the digital camcorder to take pictures of our location.