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

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

We used many forms of technology and technology within the confinements of the internet. We used blogs to transfer our research to people about our film, more specifically we used www.blogger.com. To use the blog you have to type a post but you don’t have to publish it yet so if you feel that it is a pointless post then you can delete it or even edit. Once you’ve published your post you can still edit it but this time there will be comments underneath to help you with your mistakes or to even compliment your post these are left by followers.

We also used internet video sites such as www.youtube.com to get our clips and our research of thrillers. We downloaded significant clips onto our blog to help prove our point in the research but we also used certain clips to help us define the conventions of a thriller.

We finally used search engines such as www.google.com to find what we needed for our research. We just typed what we wanted in the search bar and then over 1000 results would come up, for instance when we researched the BBFC classification website we used google.

The latest technologies have influenced us a lot because we can now find all sorts of free downloadable music from websites and also free downloadable sound effects such as a door slamming or the sound of people chatting. We also downloaded our score from one of these websites which allowed us to finish our final edit for the film.

We used a new type of editing software this helped us because it was non linear editing which allows us to change our film and improve on the shots we have already taken. The non linear editing type helped because it doesn’t put our film in order of filming it allows us to put our film in the correct order, it also helped when we wanted to cut scenes to a minimum and it allowed us to do that. Our film wouldn’t have been what it is without non linear editing type. Linear editing type would have destroyed our film because it automatically puts our film in the order of filming which would have been disastrous because we definitely did not start with the opening scene. We had to make many changes including the order in which our film will be filmed in and we managed to cut all the glitches that were there and all the nasty ambient sounds that could have ruined our film. This also developed our film into a much better product than what it looked like on the storyboard.

The use of DV cameras instead of celluloid cameras meant that our film looked more realistic and gritty than that of the Hollywood films that use celluloid cameras.