Sophie Munden - Question Six

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


Throughout the course of this project we used many technologies, such as:

• Video and still cameras
  


• Tripods

Computers

• Film editing software



• Photoshop



• Microsoft word, PowerPoint



• Internet
  


• Blogger

These technologies have allowed us, as students, and others in the general public to create films to a respectable standard. This development in technology has closed the gap that used to exist between the public and the media institutions.

While creating my product i found technologies very accessible to me and the majority were very user friendly. However, problems such as lighting while using the cameras came up. Due to this problem we had to edit our product in a different way and cut scenes we had originally planned to have in our media product. Because of the editing software, in particular 'Movie HD' that comes free on an Apple Mac we were able to fix problems like this and combine our film work and sound effects.

Websites such as YouTube, and copyright free websites helped us in our research to find music, upload our product and research other media products such as inspirations like Taxi Driver and Cape Fear.