what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? QUESTION 6

Throughout the process of creating my media product i gained the ability to use many different technologies. The macs played a big part in making our film and Learning to control an Apple Mac computer was difficult at first because it was so different from using a normal computer, this slowed me down at the beginning of the process, but after a couple of weeks of using the technology it gave me many advantages; mostly the use of special apps designed for the mac like premier pro. We used a Mac because of the aesthetics a Mac has which enable editing and the software on it to make it more simple. Macs have bigger screens and are more stylish in the fact that they look very modern which helps their marketing.

when i began my media course at the start of the year we were given a preliminary task in this we got used to the camera we were going to use for our film which was the sony handcar which was trial and error as we played around with the different buttons the battery wasn't that long lasting which was difficult the main problems we had with filming the plenary was the tripod as they kept breaking and wasn't easy to use.  The tripod had legs which has an adjustable height allowing us to get high angle shot and allowed the shouts to not be shaky and it held the camera still. 

Overall,by doing this film i have gained the ability to use many different technologies which are helpful in the media industry.To edit our film we used adobe premiere elements when using this i began to gain knowledge.Firstly,  I had to import my footage on to the computer, Cuts, transitions, effectsRenderingI then used social media to gain feedback and to

exhibit my work i shared my film with friends on twitter and Facebook. This allowed me to gain feedback of what my friends ns other people thought about my film so i could make improvement and alterations. We also put it onto youtube and by doing this we had to Export it by turning the clip it into a .mov file which is a quicktime file then this aloud us to upload our film onto you-tube.Research and PlanningBefore filming our product we had to research other products and analyse them. Furthermore we researched target audience and, conventions and representation of the film noir genre.We planned our film itself using a variety of methods:

• Storyboards

• Script

• Production Schedule

• Filming Schedule

• Location 

• Pitch

We used blogger throughout the process of creating and evaluating. From using blogger I have learnt how to set up my own foundation portfolio and create blogposts within this portfolio it also aloud me to become organised with my work and to see what i have uploaded and how far i have come.Throughout the process I have created blogs about the planning of our film, research of the genre I am focusing in on (film noir) and the evaluation of our product.