what have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product

Video Camera 

the different shots to use were important. we made sure that made as many different screen shots as we could so we could put different angles in to edit. we also found that it was important to take our time recording because we filmed twice, we noticed that the first time we recorded we rushed, and it was obvious in the recordings, and when we did it while taking our time there was a clear difference in the quality of posts.

Tripod

the tripod was a very useful piece of equipment while filming our sequence.  in the first time recording we had made a lot of mistakes without even realising so. one of the mistakes was not using the tripod the whole time, this showed big difference in the quality of the shot quality

Final Cut Express 

we used final cut to have a look at the different options there was to design, there was a better variety on final cut than movie maker. 

Final Cut Express

we used final cut, because it was a different media source, so we were using various sources.  also we found that there was more option for us to put different effects.

We all used the equipment in different ways, we used the tripod to the most we could so we got many different angle and hight shots.

YouTube

We used this during our planning and research to look at typical romcom opening sequences. it was an easy source to find trailers or videos of films. this was used a lot throughout the planning and making of our opening sequence. We also used YouTube to search for our background music. another reason why we used YouTube was to upload progress diary entries onto our accounts to keep us updated on our progress and at what point we were at

www.youtube-mp3.org

We used a youtube converting website to download the music to put it in our editing.

Facebook

We used facebook to contact people we could use as actors. we found this as a good source to use because all we hadto do was post a status asking if there were any actors who would like to take partand people would comment, volunteering 

 

Blackberry/Blackberry messenger

I used my black berry messenger to send a broadcast to everyone, asking if anyone was able to act for our opening sequence giving time dates and location. this is how we found our main actress and our male actor, luke who plays the mugger. We asked our other male actor, Ryan personally as he is in our media class and we were able to get in contact with him easier 

www.IMDb.com

we used the website IMDb.com to look up popular romance comedy films for our planning and research, we also used this to see the budget it cost to make the film

OpenOffice

I used open office because it was useful to display my planning and research posts. i found this document easy to use and useful to use 

Wikipedia

I used wikipedia to research information on our planning and research topics. I used this source because i find it easy to find information. 

iTunes

we used iTunes to save our music, e.g. voice over, background music so then it is memorable of where it is saved for when we copied it into our editing. we used iTunes because we found it really quick and easy to use 

www.google.com

we used Google as a research source.  we found it the easiest and fastest to find accurate answers, to put in our research and planning

Most of  my work was completed on a Mac in school. i.e. planning and research, recording, youtube uploading, editing, publishing.