What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Canon ZR800 (Mini DV digital camcorders) I used this all through the making and preparing
of our thriller. This includes our preliminary exercise, our rehearsal and our opening of ‘One by One’. However before I started using the cameras our teachers taught us how to use them, for example, turning them off and on, how to start and stop recording.
iMac computers; I learnt many things but using the iMac
computers as I had never used them before. I used the iMac for applications used to edit our thriller opening, to blog, research and to find our music/ make our music.
Finalcut Express; Final Express is an application on the iMac
computer that I used to edit all our filming. This was very tricky for us as we haven’t used it before. I learnt how to use it by going through a tutorial online and gradually learning how to use it by asking our teachers.
Livetype; I used livetype to create our title sequence and
our IDENT. This is also an application on the iMac computer that I haven’t before used. I learnt to use this by experimenting and choosing different aspects we like.
Safari; Safari was very helpful when my group needed
research, upload our videos and to use my blog. I found it very easy to use as it was the same as internet explorer.
Social Networks; Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
were used to promote our thriller opening and ask people to fill in my surveys about thrillers.
Youtube; This was used to upload our videos and to get
the embed code to transfer it to my blog. This was really easy to use as I have used it at home before.
Mobygratis;
Mobygratis is a website that contains unsigned music that students like us could use for school projects. However before I could use the music I have to ask a few questions and wait until I had permission to use it. My group just looked through music and figure out what would sound good in certain scenes.
Blogger; On blogger.com I created my blog to show my
process of research and our thriller opening. This was interesting to use as I was not used to using a blog to show what I have done.
Wordle; I created a word cloud from wordle to show what
aspects of a thriller that the teenagers who answered my survey liked. I thought using a word cloud would make my blog more interesting.
Survey Monkey; I have never used survey monkey or made a
survey in my life, therefore I thought it would be complicated, however I was wrong as it was very easy to used. I didn’t need any teachers help as I did it at home. I created a survey for people at home (including other members of my media class) to answer so I could get more information from the public about thrillers.
Digital cameras; My group used digital cameras, that have been
supplied from school, to take pictures of our locations (the flat and the forest).