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

Well to start off with, the filming equipment we used was new to our group, which included the Camera, Tripod and Boom Microphone, so we had to play around we these before we could start filming anything. Once we started the actual filming, we realised that it was important to keep the Boom Microphone close to the cast, but not in shot, as it would be very difficult to hear the audio otherwise.

Another problem on our first night of shooting was the camera, due to the light difficulties and no place to plug in an elecrtic lamp. Even with the night filter on, we still didnt get the quality we needed so had to reshoot. On our reshoot we found it much easier doing it in the day, then using other technoligy to edit it to make it look darker, but more importantly the blue filter.

For editing all of our footage, we used the programme IMovie, which we found very difficult to use at the start but then got used to it the more often we used it. By the end of our film we were managing quite complicated things on IMovie, such as balancing the light quality to put on a blue filter but not ruining the quality of our film, and also adjusting the sound so we got the right pitch of sound for whenever one of our cast was speaking.

Throughout this coursework task, another programme we have used is blogger, to keep an updated blog on the events which have taken place in order to complete this coursework to a standard at which we are happy. We have learnt many things on blogger during the way, such as learning how to change the time setting so that our followers didnt get popups at 3 am, to embedding video clips and hyperlinks through texts, which enhance the level of ICT used on the blog.

Another programme I have used when I have not been using IMovie is Windows Movie Maker, which is identical to IMovie, but on my computer at home runs faster than IMovie. The other benefit of using Windows Movie Maker is because uploading videos and images is a lot faster, so I have used this for different things such as short films to location scouting.