The document discusses technologies used during the production of a film project. In pre-production, a blog was used to document research and planning. Macs were used for most pre-production processes. A Canon DSLR camera was used to film the final product, allowing the filmmaker to learn new skills. iMovie was used for post-production editing, and YouTube was used to upload and share the final film. GarageBand was used to record copyright-free music and podcasts.

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

2. Pre-production
One crucial thing I used to begin the process was blogger to
equipment create my blog. And the blog was where I put all
information about my research, my planning and what
steps I would invlude in prodcution. An advantage of this
process is that I was able not only to go back and re-edit
and post but also to leave a trail of work that I could go
back and find and refer to when evaluating in the post
production of the film.
Although, disadvantages were that the blog was available to
the general public so could have been suspectible to abuse.
Also at some times the images were diffocult to work with
and move about as well making blogger difficult to use at
times.
The internet was very useful especially during times when we were planning and
researching for our films and for our target audience. As it was our main form of
information, we found it particularly useful when reseraching the conventions of a
thriller.
I used the macs in every piece of production except for the actual production and
were used in most of the processes. In pre-production by getting familiar with the
computer I was able to use all the programs usefully and effectively and the vast
variety of different programs were very good s I felt I had opinions in what I wanted
to use. Although an issue was how some Mac services were slow and lagged
especially when uploading.

3. Production Equipment
The tripods were very effective and
pratical. It provided a professional shot
on every shot we used and allowed for
succesful panning, tilting and zooming
with out any shaking or wobbling. It also
allowed for shots to be taken at different
heights, allowing for different angles to
be used succesfully and it served it basic
need to keep the camera stable. Ii must
add that the tripods were versatile and
The most important of the media tools I used.
were also used to place our lights.
Although it was only really used for our final
However I would have preferred if the
project. My skills of how to operate a camera were
tripod extended to a higher length.
honed while working on our premiliary introduction
task the first thing I posted. The Canon 650D DSLR is
what I used to film the final product and was by far
surpassed the quality of the sony camera that was
first used on the prelimiary task through using the
camera I learnt several new skills which I would
have never anticipated I would have at the
Lighting is an incredibly important piece of the beginning of the film. Futhermore, I learnt the 180
viewing experience as it can create tension and dgree rule and match on action and although I used
connotes various messages and create many both bain a basic manner, I feel I used it in a
meaning for the audience. In the beginnging of effective manner.
our scene lighting was used very effectively to
when introducing the character and I learnt that
its not just about the presence of lighting but also
how timing of the lighting can help to create an
atmosphere. Not only were LEDs used but also
the use of natural lighting we found to work well
as it creted verisimiltude. However, natural
lighting is unreliable as two days may be
different.

4. Post-production equipment
Imovie was the software used to create the Another key tool that was used. YouTube it
short movie and was the only form of was the software that allowed us to upload
editing software available. I was able to
emphatically impove the piece with the
our film onto the internet. It allowed for
software as it gave me the ability to to add smaller files and and tasks to be uploaded.
cuts, transitions and non- deigetic sounds. I To be frank it showcased our work onto the
used the knowledge gained through internet. YouTube did not really bring with it
developing the prelimiary task to enhance
the final piece. For instance, it is quite any limitations for me personally.
obviously audible that when our film gains
in intensity and speed the score does the
same and so we really do see the score
mirroring the action which hopefully affects
the audience.
Garageband allowed for recording of podcasts
which were later used as feedback for the work that
we had previously done. More importantly we used
the software to record our copyright-free music.