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

Canon Video Camera • For recording our piece we used the Canon Video recorder

that we were supplied with. In terms with how we coped when using it, it was fairly simple and easy to use. We simply had to press the record button once we were ready for our shot to be taken. One feature of this camera was that we were able to look back over the shots we had taken to see whether they looked okay or not.

Something that we discovered was that zooming in whilst recording looked unprofessional and sometimes blurred. Therefore in order to get a closer shot we moved the Tripod and Camera closer.

Mac Desktop • I had used a mac prior to this so I was able to locate myself

around its layout which may have been a lot harder if I hadn’t used one before. However, one program that we used to edit our final opening was final cut pro. This was something that I hadn't used before and so I had to learn the basics during the prelim task before moving onto the harder editing of the final opening.

Sound recorder • Another thing that we used in terms of technology was the

sound recorder. This was mainly used in our group to emphasize sounds that may not have been clear when using the video camera.

• This is something that is used a lot and we used it for the sounds such as the knocking on the door, footsteps outside and the door being opened.

This is where we inserted all of our clips that we had taken and began going through them all. For the ones that we liked and wanted to use we added them to favorites, making the green bar appear.

After we had imported and favorited our clips we began to place them in the order that we wanted them and trimmed them down to the length we wanted them to be.

Once the clips had been put into place and trimmed down we began to add the other sounds that we recorded on the sound recorder and also the music and ensured that it fitted with our piece.

Another thing that we had to do when it came to editing and using final cut pro was adding effects to each of the shots. We had to do this in order to change and try out different lighting effects as we wanted in to be dark but for the audience to still make out what was happening. The lighting was so key as we recorded during the day and it was fairly sunny, therefore we used effect such as Low keyer to ensure that the light was darker to convey the thriller genre.

Websites & AppsThis is the programme that we used to create our blog and upload our work to.

We uploaded our final piece to YouTube so that it was public and could be assessed.

PowerPoint was used to create things such as this and an easy way to store other work that we needed

We used Pearl and Dean to find out the type of audience that may be interested in our film

We used office 365 to email each other ideas about filming and other work that was needed for our blog.

I used slide share so that I could create PowerPoint presentations and then use the them for my blog.