Q6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product

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

The pre-production in my opinion opened my eyes to new technologies, especially in organising the specifics of what we wanted to come from this project and how we were to accomplish it.

The first website we were introduced to was Blogspot, used to record each section of planning and research we have done put towards creating this product. This website is a multimedia platform, enabling us to be: interactive with dialogue and design; to have complete ownership of customisation we envisioned; flexibility of use, where by anywhere we could use it with the advantage of online accessibility connecting us to a variety of sites that can link to blogspot. This enabled research of similar films such as Alice Creed to be more thorough, it allowed us to connect different websites to them post it or about it. Furthermore, Blogspot allows continuous editing of every blog post, if a mistake, it is so easy to change, this is also very useful when planning this project.

The Second and Third website we used for mainly research and parts of planning were for starters Youtube. This is a rich content platform, its so easily accessible with inclusion of such a variety of videos, allowing us to understand and improve new camerawork such as angles, composition and even how soundtracks can be massively useful in creating atmosphere. Using this site meant we could watch other thriller openings on the go, if in school or home they were always at our finger tips to relate back to. The Third site is dropbox, this site is simply used to get access to public sharing of content such as images shared with the whole class for research work.

The Forth and in my opinion most important when talking about providing a platform to do my work and then to share it easily is Google Drive and Docs, this allowed not only an easy base to accomplish tasks on but also to do them collaboratively, allowing creative empowerment within the production group.

Furthermore, websites used in planning for sound and font were SoundFX and DaFont. Both sites provided a vast collection of useful ideas, helping expand our possibilities of what we could produce, it gave us creative freedom and more imagination.

In my opinion production went well in most parts, finding time to film was the hardest part of organisation, however the technology we were given did make it a lot easier in creating an opening thriller realistic enough to the point of having similarities to films we used in research.

The technologies we used were for starters the HD Camera this meant we were able to be in control of the settings such as high or low resolution, the camera also included instant playback meaning instead of having to go away and watch what we had filmed firstly, we could there and then watch and retake specific shots, this also leads to a more effective product but also more creative ability, it meant we could improvise and even experiment with all kinds of ideas without worrying about not having enough memory or time. This is also due to the compact memory the SD holds.

The post-production for the project included editing on Premium Pro. The bonus of using an HD camera meant and this software meant it was non-linear editing software. It enabled us to edit it in any order and refine and tweak our work whenever it was needed with ease as well. But it also again meant there was empowerment in our creativity.