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

Through the process of constructing my film I have learnt about many areas in media and know have a great appreciation of films and cinema and the editing.

Firstly I have learnt about lighting and how such planning has to go into it and how you need to make sure that if any re shooting occurs that the camera must be in the same place and that the scene is exactly the same. I learnt that lighting is greatly important on achieving the mood and atmosphere that you want, and how it can change a piece of filming instantly. For example at the end of our film when there the knock on the door it straight away connoted that something sinister was to occur as the lighting was dark apart from the blue flashing light. I also have learnt about how achieving such lights to imply things is extremely hard, we had create difficulty trying to make a blue flashing light that would connote a police officers light.

I have also learnt a lot about sounds and how they are achieved to add to a film not mask mistakes. We wanted to achieve this and I do believe that our music adds to our film not masking it. I have learnt about how editing sounds into a film is extremely difficult to make sure they make the sound is heard when you wish, while the image is moving. For example when the watch ticks we added the sound over the top and the typewriter effect.

But mostly throughout making my media product I have learnt how editing is so important and can change a films meaning and atmosphere by where you cut a scene. I have such an appreciation for the holly wood editing that is invisible that I admire and we tried to replicate by thing not changing what they were doing or the direction they were in. For example the shot of the girl on the swing and then the close up the swing is in the correct position. An amateur replication of holly wood editing.

Also throughout this process I have learnt how to use editing equipment, for example Final Cut Pro. We learnt how to cut scenes without it looking jumpy, we also learnt how to overlap two shots and how to fade in and out also.

This is a picture of Chloe and I editing our film:

Also throughtout making my film and commenting throughout I have learnt how to blog and use Blogger. Through blogger I have learnt how to get clips from Youtube and use them on my blog, also I have learnt how to upload picutres - and overcome issues such as not having enough space. Blogger has helped me to show my work in the most interactive creative way.