The document discusses the strengths and weaknesses of using a professional camera to film a product. It was able to capture higher quality footage than a phone but had difficulties with focusing, lighting, and handheld shots. These issues were overcome by being patient with zooming, using special lighting equipment, and mounting the camera on stable platforms instead of handholding. The document also discusses using an iMac for research and editing software like iMovie and Final Cut Pro to edit footage. Blogger was used to upload research and evaluations online in different formats like Prezi, SlideShare, and YouTube.

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

2. The Camera
STRENGTHS:
 The professional camera allowed us to film what we wanted in a higher quality than if we
were to use a phone or flip camera.
 We were able to take the camera and tripod to a variety of different locations as they were
both portable and easy to carry
 The camera helped make our film look authentic and professional
WEAKNESSES:
 It was difficult to focus the camera when we were zooming in and out of shots
 Sometimes, the lighting was not favourable to the camera so some of the shots came out
unclear as they were very dark.
 As the camera was quite large, it was difficult to film some shots by hand when the tripod
would not applicable for the angle that we wanted, so our handheld shots tended to be fairly
shaky.

3. Overcoming the problems
 The problem of focusing the camera was overcome by being really slow
and patient with the zoom button
 As we needed a dark atmosphere for our film, we could not solve the
lighting problem by turning on the lights in the house so we had to use the
special lighting equipment that comes with the camera. We also re-filmed
some of the shots that we thought would turn out okay but didn’t.
 As opposed to holding the camera and filming by hand, we put the tripod
on different platforms such as tables, chairs, desks, etc. to help make it
look like it was handheld as well as get steady footage at the desired
angle.

4. The iMac
 Used for research
 Had programmes specific for editing
iMovie
 We used to edit our footage
 We added a soundtrack to make our thriller opening convincing.
FinalCut Pro
 We were able to professionally edit some shots such as improving the mise-en-scene and
making some changes to the lighting, e.g. making some shots darker to fit the thriller genre
more adequately

5. Blogger
 ‘Blogger’ is a website that we used in probably every
media lesson involving our coursework, as this was
where we uploaded our research and evaluation onto.
 We learnt to use many programmes to use to upload our
research in many different unique ways – these
programmes include Prezi, SlideShare and YouTube.