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

To construct my project I have used iMovie, from iMovie I took the footage that I filmed on the camera I was given and imported it onto one of the apple Mac’s. From there I edited, created effects, used garage band and imported sounds. All these things help go towards my final product. I got better at using the Mac’s as time went on, learnt new skills and different ways to create more effects and better visuals for my production.

My shooting skills were increased I feel through this production because in my group we all had a long go at filming, we all did a variety of shots: point of views, long establishing shots, action shots, pans and many more different types of shots. We did have some problems at points throughout the production, lighting in the flashbacks was an issue but then became irrelevant because we found that our camera had a light with it, the effect we got from that light was perfect because it showed an almost distorted image which would be perfect for our flashback effects.

Importing and placing the music in the production correctly was also a challenge because getting the music in the right place was crucial. For example, the chase scene kicks off with a bang, a sudden start of music which helps draw attention to the fact that the man is being chased not going for a casual run for instance. We also had two types of music, the chase scene music and the flashback music, this was hard to fit in together. We overcame this problem by trying it out in different places moving the flashbacks in different places in the chase scene. This worked until we found the right balance for chase music and flashback music, when music was finished being put in place I was very happy with what we had at the end of it. I made the music in a programme called garage band, this was hard to do because I never used this programme before so it was challenging. I was very pleased with the end product of my garage band tasks. I created two music sound tracks that I used for my thriller product on garage band this is an example of one of them, I created them and then imported them into my footage in the correct places.