The document discusses what was learned from constructing a film product using different cameras and the editing process. It was found that using a tripod helped but the tripod broke, and a photography camera provided better quality than the first camera used. Editing required patience as unwanted sections had to be precisely cropped. Recording also required patience as actors sometimes forgot lines, slowing the process. Connecting cameras to computers, importing clips, and editing in iMovie was part of finalizing the product for uploading online.

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

2. For our main task, we used a Sony DCR-HC51E to record our task. The strengths of using this camera
was that we used a tripod and this made it easier for us to turn the camera and ‘follow’ somebody in
without it being shaky. The camera was easy to use as all the required buttons which were needed such
as zooming in, zooming out, recording, pausing and being able to delete sections. Although the
weakness for using this camera was that the camera quality wasn’t clear enough and didn’t look
professional. Another weakness was that the tripod was broken in the middle of our shooting so we
couldn’t use it anymore and when we tried using it without the tripod, the camera kept shaking. We
faced difficulty with this camera afterwards.
After getting our task assessed to see if we could improve on anything, the head of department advised
us to reshoot the whole task again as the acting was over worked and the room that we used didn’t look
like an interrogation room, so we changed the camera that we were going to use to a SRL photography
camera where we were able to record the task.
The strength of using the SRL camera was that the camera quality was much better than the Sony DCR-
HCF51E and it was easier to delete sections which we didn’t want to keep. Although the weakness of
the camera was that it required changes to the settings to adjust it to video mode as it was originally a
photography camera.

3. What I have learnt from recording and editing is that it requires time and patience because we found
when it came to editing that there were some sections were we had to crop out the ending of a
section and we would have ended up cropping more than we needed to. This happened a few
times although iMovie was really useful and bought back everything that we cropped and we were
able to play about with the cropping until we cropped what was necessary. I also learnt from
editing that you would have to see the ending of one section and the beginning of the next to see
that the actors body language was similar otherwise the movie would not flow. Effects and sound
effects made our movie look more ‘thriller’ as the sound effects would build the tension.
During recording, I learnt that time and patience was also needed because it did take us a few shots to
record one scene and this was due to our actors not knowing their lines or forgetting their lines
which slowed us down. Another thing I learnt from recording is not to record the actors until they
knew their lines because we had a few takes for most of the shots and that led to the editors of the
film to go through all of the shots to see which ones were the right ones and this led to time taken
during editing.
When putting our final product together, we had to connect the camera to the Mac’s which we used in
school, and imported all of the clips into iMovie and we had to select the sections of the movie into
a folder to create the final product and this is where we edited and cropped any sections.
To update our final product on to our blogs, we finalised and made all the edits that we had to, to create
the final product and we uploaded the video on to a YouTube account, then after we could go on
our blogs and find our media product under the name ‘INTERROGATION..’ on YouTube.