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

The more professional use of a Digital Camera.
What my group used it for; we used this digital camera for filming our 2 minute opening and our continuity. It is a great little lightweight camera, it uses a memory card which enabled me to easily upload the footage onto my computer, and is complete with 12 mpx . Because it was a digital it was really easy to use, and functioned also in allowing us to take digital stills whilst filming.
Problems; The main problem was having to convert the footage to Quicktime so we could upload the videos to the Apple Macs.


Apple MAC Computer
What my group used it for; We used the Macs for uploading both our continuity and our final 2 minute task onto, to edit and to burn onto disc.Problems I think the Macs are harder to use than Windows PCs but that is mainly to do with the one button mouse and the command/control buttons - instead of "shift" you have to use the Apple button.





iMovie
What my group used it for we used iMovie editing software to edit both films. We used it to add transitions, jump shots, titles to both and to edit the CCTV black & white colour in our continuity exercise.Problems The main problems we had were cutting the footage, which was sometimes tricky and frustrating because of the arrows you have to drag to select the bit of the clip you want to delete. However I think this was the only problem we really had with the software. It was easy to add the music to and to add titles too, but it takes quite a long time to save your work. It was also really hard to remove transitions or credits, which was especially relevant when we had to change the credits.




Youtube



What my group used it for; we used Youtube to research films in the same genre and style of our own, to inspire our work and help us to see genre conventions being used in actual film. We also used it to upload our interview with our target audience and to find music for our film. Problems didn't have many problems with Youtube really, as I have an account and have used it previously but I would say finding music and researching other films was difficult when you had to use key words to find what you wanted.

Blogger

What my group used it for; I used Blogger for keeping an up to date diary of how we created both films from both tasks and keeping track of all decisions/changes/problems made and experienced during filming. We also were able to put up our research, storyboards, film openings analysis, questionnaire and other work done during both tasks.Problems; I found Blogger quite easy to use, it is easy to change fonts, backgrounds, add photos and videos. Probably the hardest thing is keeping it up to date and remembering to add things as you go along the projects.


Google
What my group used it for; We used Google search engine to research our genre of horror and its genre conventions. We also used it to gain pictures to put onto our blogs and to choose our target audience.Problems The only problem with Google is having to find and select the information you are looking for; filtering through all the other images/pages it gives you.


Scanner
What my group used it for; Ana used a printer's scanner to scan the storyboard onto the computer to enable us to upload the image onto our blogs.Problems; She didn't have many issues with this piece of technology but it apparently was quite frustrating to position the paper to get all the annotations and notes to be seen on the web image.



Portable Hard Drive
What my group used it for
We used it to back up our work after saving onto the Macs to ensure that our work was safe from being accidentally deleted/removed/changed without consent.
Problems; The only problem once again was time, and having to wait ages for it to save. But it was worth it to make sure our work would be safe.


Fire Wire Cable
What my group used it for
We used cables like this to upload our footage onto the Macs and to connect the portable hard drive as well.
Problems
We did not experience any problems in using this equipment, except some of the wires didn't work and we had to swap through them.