Q6. What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

When we started our AS media subject we got given the task of completing a preliminary task. We got given a Sony handycam and a tripod and were sent on our way to film this task. There is a picture of this below.


This was set so that we could show our basic skills with not having much practice with a camera. It helped us get used to the feel and how the camera works so it would be easier to do our main project. It was a short clip of basic camera shots that we got taught about. Comparing what we did in this task, compared to our main project there is a big difference, which shows how we have improved. 

To the left is an image of our tripod used throughout our prelim task and main film. The tripod we used along with our camera helped us to stabilise our filming and make sure the footage was clear and not shaky. 









After we had finished this task, our future lessons were set with clips of films to watch, such as "se7en", "blue velvet", and we had to analyse them and then record what we analysed on our individual blogs. This then got us used to using 'www.blogger.com' as we were reporting in it weekley. It also kept all our work organised and it is an easy type of format to work on. 

After this topic had been completed we got told about our main task, to produce our film. We had lots of planning and research to do to help guide us to do the best we could. This included storyboarding our scenes. We drew the scenes out on paper and then so that we could put them on our blog, we scanned our storyboard from the photocopier to our email addresses so that we could put it on a blog post and talk about it. This was also a new piece of technology for me to learn how to use. 


Producing our actual film with the technology being the camera and tripod we had previously used was fairly easy, as long as the use of the 180 degree rule was remembered. However transferring the filmed footage and editing it on the iMacs was very difficult for me as I had never done anything like that before. We used premier pro to edit our film and so this made putting our film together was much easier once we knew how to do it.