Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Before producing our final media product, we as a group had to use a range of different technologies during the process of creating our product.

First, we had to gather and organise information that we could use to benefit our products, this ranged from researching exactly what the thriller genre was to learning different types of the genre itself which we each placed on our group blog to present to other group members.
 After finding out exactly what genre is we delved deeper into the subject researching forms and conventions of exciting thriller films as well as opening sequences backed up by pictures and videos to show our understanding of the subject and how we could benefit from it, enhancing the range of our research to really create that thrilling feel you get from thriller movies.

Second, after gathering all the research we needed, we went onto to the next step planning exactly who would play what part and where we film everything. With the use of our phones we were able take pictures that we could directly transfer to our blog for all our members to view and give their opinions on the move not cutting anyone’s time. Apart from our phones we would come up with ideas and plans over Facebook since it was the social media that everybody had access to and gave us the capabilities to share videos and music links that we thought would be good to use for our product.

Third was the production. This had us use a range of technological devices to create our product, within our arsenal we had an SD camera which was portable due to its miniaturisation, it’s easy to afford price. Its user friendly interface allowed for auto focus, auto white balance and auto zoom which made the capturing of our product all the more easier.


However with its ups the camera also had its down, due to its cheap affordable price it lack quality footage leaving a grainy drained image as shown in our preliminary video.With an built in microphone the cameras not only picked up the casts voices but the unwanted ambient sounds around us as well, to counter-act this we chose moments where are setting was completely quiet and planned a limited range of dialogue to minimise this negative attribute.

Finally all that was left was our post production. This had us using mac laptops with a very handy programme called I-movie which helped with our post production. I-movie was a non-linear editing software that allowed the user to edit out of sequence non-destructively.

Since this product was a consumer audience programme it was user friendly, filled with pre-loaded sounds, scores, transitions and effects whilst being cost effective, free for mac computers and laptops. The downside to this was its limited compatibility to other camera not in its consumer audience and lack of a detailed sound resource meaning we had to source royalty free scores and sound effects from websites on the internet.