What have you learnt about technologies

from the process of constructing this

product?

MARCIA RUMSEY

For editing our opening we used Final Cut Pro. None of us were familiar with the program so therefore at first we found it hard to navigate. However we were able to use tutorials we found online to help. These tutorials were both videos and written guides. The website http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-

cut-pro-x-tutorial was particularly useful. After we understood Final Cut Pro more we found it produced really great results. The impact of this program on our piece was

phenomenal as a lot of our piece relies on effects and editing.

FINAL CUT PRO

Another bit of technology we found helpful, especially in planning was our mobile phones. We used them a lot because of

it being a piece of convergent technology. We use it to communicate with each other while planning outside out of school. We also used it to access the Facebook app on our

phone so that we could contact our focus group and ask their opinions. We also used it to access YouTube. Without the use

of phones we would not of been able to communicate anywhere at any given time. Phones also helped us access existing media

while shooting so that our opening had common conventions of psychological thriller in.

PHONES

Another piece of convergent technology we used was the internet. For example we used YouTube to look at existing

media to help us decide what codes and conventions to include in our final piece. We also used it to access tutorials to

help us understand the other technology we were using. We also again used it for Facebook and for creating a Focus Group. We also used the internet to look at music and sound effects we

wanted for our final piece. By finding music and sound effects online we were able to get them quickly rather then recording

them ourselves.

INTERNET

In our final piece we used two different cameras. One was the Cannon D600 with the Tamron lens which we used for the

majority of our shots. This lens was good for our piece as we found that we dint need a quicker lens as there wasn’t much movement in the shots. We used online tutorials to help us

understand the functions of the camera. We also learnt a lot through trial and error when we were doing tester shots. We also used the Panasonic Lumix DMC-SZ8EB-K as in our piece we had a few extreme close up shots. We originally tried to do

these shots with the Tamron lens however we found the quality of the shot was high enough so therefore decided to use the

Lumix.

CAMERA