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

There were a variety of different technologies that I used when planning and making my thriller opening. These were;

Blogger: blogger was used to post my research of different thriller genres and general research into our thriller. This consisted of location, props, storyboards, music, costumes etc. Also, I research different thriller openings to see what conventions were used and see ideas of how to put a thriller together. This was good organisation as when it came to planning we could just look at what we’ve researched.

Youtube/facebook: These programmes were used for our feedback on our thriller. Once we finished our thriller we posted it onto these pages and got feedback from the general public. The results showed us what our target market liked about our thriller and if we met their objectives of a thriller opening. It also gave us a chance to see what we could improve on or what things didn’t work very well. Having both good and bad feedback helped us in our evaluation.

IMovie: IMovie was used in developing/making our thriller opening. After downloading the footage onto the macs we could then start editing by adding transitions, music, sound effects etc onto our thriller making it realistic. After using the editing programme for our preliminary we got the hand of where everything was and how it worked well.

Video camera and digital camera: We used this equipment for filming our thriller opening and taking pictures of location, costumes and general pictures of our thriller for planning. After using the cameras before we knew how to use them and hoe effective they can be. From this we learnt how effective we could get shots from different camera angles and generally how effective we could make our thriller.

During shooting I’ve learnt how to use a digital camera effectively and how to create effective shots by the placement of the camera. I also learnt how to effectively use shots like zoom and pan effectively and this worked well in our film. For example, I used the zoom on an object which worked well in the finer details. It was a bit jumpy but we tried resolving this by using a tool on editing to steady the zoom. I have also learnt developing skills while editing our thriller. Through the development of our opening we all had a go at each section so we could get the hand of it. For example, we had to cut certain scenes to fit with each other and look in place. We also had to remove some dialogue in pieces or remove the film and keep the sound. This was used by removing each section and deleting the appropriate one. I also learnt about different transitions to use instead of just jump cuts to the next scene. For example, we used flash backs in our thriller so we used the dissolve effect and fade to white to create a feel of time passing making it effective. All of this editing process took part on the macs which we got the hang of quite easily. We had to import music from a different programme which we had to fit into our thriller. The music worked effectively as it created an eerie atmosphere and tension through the audience.