The document discusses various technologies used in creating a film project. Final Cut Pro was used extensively for editing video and audio, including applying color filters and sound effects. Blogger was utilized to collect and organize ideas, documents, and research. SoundCloud and FreeSound helped find sound effects, while YouTube allowed embedding clips and learning from other films. Photoshop was employed to design the production logo with a flickering effect to set the tone for the psychological thriller genre of the film.

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

2. Final Cut
The technologies we used were essential
for producing our final product.
We used final cut to edit the man bulk of
our film. The filters on final cut were
useful as we used them to change the
colour of the film to have a blues tint to
create a cold, isolated film to the main
character. We also used final cut to edit
the sound to create a muffled sound
effect which created the illusion that the
audience is outside the party.
I learnt several new skills from this
process and built up confidence using
the software. However I learnt that
editing a film is a long process as we had
several difficulties with the format of our
film.

3. Blogger
Blogger played a big role in collecting and storing ideas for our media product.
We used blogger to record our journey and different skills and techniques we
had used along the way. We used blogger to show our ideas in a easier format
and it helped us stay organised as all our documents were in the same place.
We used blogger much more effectively for our final film as we created more
posts and thought through our process more carefully. We also carried out
more reasearch to help back up our ideas.

4. Sound Cloud, Free Sound
We used Sound Cloud and Free Sound to upload
and share audio clips so we could transfer into
our blog. None of the members of my group had
used this software before and it took us a while to
understand how to use the software. We mostly
used Free Sound to listen to different sound
effects to decide what sort of sounds we wanted
to record for our film. We took inspiration initially
from a track of tyres screeching however we
decided not to incorporate it into our film as we
wanted the dialogue to be the main focus. Sound
Cloud was mainly used to listen to sound tracks
from different thriller films so we could analyse
them in depth and decide what music would be
best suited to our film.

5. You Tube
We used YouTube to upload clips on to the internet
so we could embed them into our blogs so we could
analyse them. YouTube was useful as we were able
to watch other thriller clips. This helped us decide on
what conventions would be best to incorporate into
our film and to learn the framing of a typical credit
sequence in the opening of our film. We used you
tube regularly as it was the best way to share the
video between us to add to our individual blogs and it
also meant that we could share the clip for people to
watch so we could improve our film with feedback
given.

6. Photoshop
We used Photoshop to create the production
logo for our film. This process was
complicated and took us a while for us to
design the logo that we wanted. We tried to
link our production logo back to the film. As
our thriller is psychological we decided to
name it ‘Cerebral Pictures’ as cerebral is
another word for brain. We created a
flickering effect onto our logo making it look
more professional. The production logo is the
first thing the audience sees and we thought
it might give the audience a clue about the
type of film they are going to watch.