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

Filming equipment

We used a Canon DSLR 650D camera to film our Thriller, at first I found it hard to use as it had many features that could be used but after practice and having time to play around with the features to see what they do I got used to using it fairly quickly. The quality of the footage we had from using this camera was very clear overall but as the camera is very sensitive any move of the lens could cause the footage to become blurry so we had to be careful about making sure we didn’t move the lens when we were filming dramatically. We used several camera lenses when filming out thriller and this was because some lenses focused better on certain objects like the footage of plates in the thriller but also to focus footage from further away. We used a tripod to film a lot of our footage because firstly it was very useful and easy to control (moving it around) but also that it helped to avoid any shakiness on the footage.

Advantages Disadvantages- The Canon DSLR 650D camera

films good, professional quality footage.

- The battery of the Canon DSLR 650D lasted a long time which enabled us to film without rushing.

- We used a tripod to hold the Canon DSLR 650D so we could avoid any shaky footage up to an extent (look disadvantage) but overall the tripod was very useful as we used it for many types of shots, for example taking a pan of the kitchen and cropping shots (look at next slide).

- As there are many features to the Canon DSLR 650D it takes a lot of time to get used to the camera which took up a lot of time.

- The Canon DSLR 650D is quite heavy so when some shots were being taken at a high angle, for example Aleksandra had to sit on the worktop to film the footage of the girl (myself) taking dishes out the dishwasher so it was hard to not have any shaken footage.

Filming equipment

Editing equipment

During the process of editing our footage to create a thriller I used an Apple Mac computer. On this computer it a software app called ‘Final Cut Pro X’ which we used to edit our thriller. At first, using the app was very hard but if I got stuck I just went onto YouTube and watched tutorial videos. By using this software my skills in editing developed and I learnt the basic structure on how to edit footage which may be helpful in later opportunities, for example being able to now trip footage and move It around. I also learnt how to import music and add it in our thriller footage on ‘Final Cut Pro X’. Once we finished editing the Thriller we imported it to YouTube and uploaded it through here to our blogs on Blogger.

Editing equipment

Advantages Disadvantages - ‘Final Cut Pro x’ had many settings

and features which we explored.- We were able to edit our thriller

on this software easily and gave us many options in which we could make our thriller the best it could be.

- The Mac had a built in microphone and camera so we were able to record podcasts for example.

- ‘Final Cut Pro x’ was slow at times.- The software is quite expensive so

we were only able to edit during school times.

- The Mac itself at times was quite slow of froze.

- Some of our import footage did not import properly so we had to spend a lot of time re importing the files to make sure we could upload our thriller in time for the deadline.