The document discusses what the author learned about various technologies from constructing a media product. They found blogging easy but videos and avatars were difficult to embed. Final Cut was enjoyable once familiar but crashed unexpectedly. Filming was versatile but they forgot to load tape. Voki and Scribd had usability issues. Editing and filming took much longer than expected. The author is proud of shots they took climbing a tree and of their partner walking in a tunnel. They would improve the logo and intro music. They felt limited in editing involvement but comfortable with camera work and storyboarding.

1. 6. What have you learned about
technologies from the process of
constructing the product?

2. • The new technology was interesting to use,
and most of it I had never used before, which
led to some interesting occasions in which Jon
and I were completely stumped on occasions.

3. Technology Used before? Benefits Difficulties
Blogging No Mostly easy to use Trouble embedding
videos and avatars
Final Cut Once Once you know what Very hard when you
you’re doing, you can are not sure what to
fly through it. do
Enjoyable Closed down
unexpectedly
Filming No Versatile, the size We forgot to put the
helped with many tape in.
shots. The tripod also
made it more secure
Voki No Wouldn’t say what I
typed, didn’t work on
a PC . Couldn’t embed
it on the blog when it
did work.
Scribd No Could get ideas down Tedious
in a
Voicethread No It worked, and was Slow
fun adding accents.
YouTube Yes but not with my Easy to post the video. No feedback

4. Did you realise so much hard work
went into creating similar media
products?
• I knew that the editing process in particular
was long, and also filming itself requires so
many cuts.
• Luckily for us, I managed to get the shot that I
wanted most of the time. Although four hours
of filming has only resulted in two minutes
and forty seconds of work.
• The editing took a long time although we
hoped we would not be quite so long.

5. Are there any shots or edits you are
really proud of?
• Jon is proud of the shot of me as the hooded
figure standing at the back of the tunnel.
• I am proud of the shot when I climbed the
tree to shoot Chris walking. Also I am proud of
the shot of Chris walking to the tunnel, and
when he stops.

6. What would you do differently to
improve or alter your product?
• I believe that to alter the product, I would
have created a better institutional logo, and
made a better sequence than it just fading
into the screen.
• Also, I believe that the music we used wasn’t
suitable for the film.

7. Were there any limitations to your
creativity?
• I felt that I could have been a little more
involved in the editing, and wished that the
title style I originally wanted could have been
used but it would have made the opening look
shoddy.
• However, with the camera particularly I felt
very comfortable, and enjoyed making the
storyboard as well.