The document discusses the various technologies and equipment used to create a film project, including a video camera, tripod, Garage Band, Final Cut, Photoshop, and Wordpress. It provides details on what was learned from using each tool. The author learned how to effectively use the video camera's flip screen and playback features. Garage Band was challenging to learn due to its complexity, but allowed the creation of a soundtrack. Final Cut was frustrating but allowed editing of text and creating an effective opening sequence. Wordpress was new but easy to use.

1. What Have I Leant About
The Technology From The
Process of Constructing
The Product?
Beth Emily Cooper

2. What Programmes and Equipment I
Used..
Video Camera
Tripod
Garage Band
Final Cut
Photoshop
Wordpress.com

3. Video camera..
I have learnt to actually use the video
camera we were given. When I first
received the camera (as I did
cinematography) I had no idea how to use
it. The Flip screen was extremely useful due
to the position of our main character, this
was because if we flipped the camera
screen around the subject could see where
he was going wrong and where he needed
to move to.
Also the play back on the camera was very
useful because after every shot we filmed
we would watch them back to see if it was
still or shaky and if we had to re-film the
shot. There were no obvious drawbacks or
problems with the camera.

4. Tripod..
I didn’t really learn anything new from using the
tripod as I already knew how to use them due to
using them in photography. There are no real
draw backs all faults with it either. We used it on
a number of occasions whilst filming but not as
much as we could of done to create stiller shots
for out Thriller sequence.

5. Garage Band ..
Using Garage Band was a
massive task. I have used it
briefly in my first
school, however I have never
been asked to make a eerie
thriller soundtrack! The biggest
task of using Garage Band was
working out all the controls such
as, how to get the keyboard
piano up which I have never ever
used. The only downside to
garage band is that it is very time
consuming and extremely
complicated when you don’t
know what you are doing! If we
had had more time working on
our project then I would have
liked to have mastered it for next
time around

6. Final Cut..
I find using Final Cut extremely
frustrating as it is so sensitive!
You make the slightest change to
your sound on your work and the
entire sound is then out of sync
with the clip. I already had some
skill with final cut due to film
studies, however I find putting
text over the top of clips (e.g. the
credits) very confusing. However
we mastered it in the end and it
allowed us to make more of an
effective thriller opening
sequence. The draw backs would
be that if you had never used
Final Cut it would be very time
consuming to learn with such
little time.

7. Photoshop..
I already had a lot of previous
experience using Photoshop as I
take Photography and us it as a
hobby so did not learn anything
that I didn’t already know.
Photoshop allowed us to make our
logo and our film poster. There are
know obvious drawbacks apart
from time consuming.

8. Wordpress.com
Wordpress is completely new
software that I had never used
before. It was such an easy form
of blog to use and I got the hang
of it quite easily. The blog allowed
us to post all of our posts and
evaluation tasks somewhere
public for our teacher to monitor
our progress.
There are no obvious drawbacks
to Wordpress as it is so easy to
use!