What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product?

-iMovie -Garageband-Microphone-Camera -Blogger-Facebook-Prezi- Youtube

iMovie

iMovie was the main technology that we used to create our product. iMovie is an app only available on apple computers. It is fairly easy to get used to and really simple to control. iMovie was used the most during the process of producing of our opening sequence. It is easy to copy, insert and cut clips to your exact measures. The clips at the bottom are where your import the video footage, and the clips to the left of the screenshot are where you insert your footage and then cut it to your preference. After researching for a Thriller genre, we were able to really grasp the techniques used to create an effective thriller product. We used the maximum benefits of iMovie effectively when adding sound into the movie clips. iMovie allows us to be very precise with exactly where we want the sound to begin, which is vital for us when producing our montage news footage clips as we have many clips of dialogue overlapping eachother.

GaragebandGarageband is a music creating software that we used to produce the soundtrack of the product. This took a fairly long time to get used to. We also realised that creating your own music comes with a lot of challenges, however this software has prerecorded clips of music that you can copy and insert into your track, this helped us to understand how Garageband works. The Piano in the photo above allows you to click on a specific notes to record, but we could only use this after we had got used to the software. Garageband is useful for us when producing our Thriller style music accompaniment because it allows us to be extremely precise in timings. We are able to overlap many instruments over one another to create an extremely built up, layered, effective piece of music.

facebook

Facebook was used in our production to interact with each other. We created a group chat that we used in order to talk to each other about our plans for each lesson. We were especially active on it when discussing our plans for filming. For example what days we wanted to film, who we were going to ask to be involved in the filming etc.The screenshots below allow to show what we would talk about in order to organise ourselves.

Microphone and Camera during filming

We used a Nikon camera d200 and a microphone boom during our filming. The Nikon Camera is owned by Jake and produces a very high definition picture which makes our opening sequence look of a high standard. The camera nicely captured the light in our shots which are really intriguing for the audience. We used the microphone boom by plugging it into the camera. After the use of it on the first day, we realised that the microphone would make the footage sound quite muffled and decided to film the next day without using the microphone boom. This worked nicely in the end.

Blogger

We used blogger as our primary source of recording all of our work. The screenshot on the left shows my blog where I record, evaluate and comment on all of my work in order to create a type of portfolio for my AS Media work. The Teaching Blog is the blog that outlines work that we need to do, the blog includes examples of previous work to make our blogs even better! At the beginning of the year we began exploring the thriller genre, and our blog shows the process of how we got from our thriller exploring to our final product.

PreziI used the Prezi software on Google to answer the evaluation question, “How does your media product represent different social groups?” Prezi is a website allowing you to create a presentation. It is similar to Microsoft Powerpoint but much more visually appealing. I like Prezi because it is very simple to control and looks really effective. I learnt how to use this during our construction of our media product.

YoutubeWhenever we create an iMovie file or video using Moviemaker, we always have to upload the video onto Youtube in order to embed it into our blogs. I learned how to upload videos onto Youtube whilst preparing to construct our media product. The screenshot below shows my video response to the evaluation question, “What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?”