Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the whole production and development of our thriller we used many different types of technology such as: camera (for filming), tripod (to have steady camera shots), macs (to make blogs and to edit), laptops (to make blogs), final cut pro X (for editing), blogger (to write and evaluate different stages of making our thriller opening) and YouTube (for film clips). Miss Georgiou briefly explained how to use the tripod and camera, the rest we figured out for ourselves when doing our preliminary task and during our filming process. The tripod was easy to work and was very helpful also, the editing programme (Final cut pro X) was very difficult to use but our editor Joe was familiar with it and taught me and Cara the basics during the editing process and we quickly learned how to edit for ourselves. Some camera shots were more difficult to film than others, for example a low angle shot was simple as the tripod could be adjusted to get very low and film upwards. On the other hand, a handheld camera shot was very difficult to film; this was because it couldn’t be too shaky, and in the cold night when filming is was very hard to keep my hand still. We overcome this issue by editing the shot to skip a few frames to look like the audience were moving towards Alice when she turns around in her gas mask making the shot very mysterious. Also panning shots was quite difficult to film because the adjustments on the tripod could be very loose of very stiff making it hard to shoot a smooth pan shot. We overcome this by finding the perfect adjustment on the tripod making the pan shot smooth and professional looking. The editing software we used was Final cut pro X, this was very professional and quite difficult to edit with at first, after trimming and editing a couple of clips the software became easier to use and very helpful. I learned how to trim clips down to remove unwanted shots and just keep the good part of the clip which was very helpful as many clips had accidently laughter or bird chirping in the background. I wasn’t very good at putting transitions in-between clips because sometimes it lasted to long and cut out half of the following clip, this was one of my weaknesses but Joe was good on Final cut pro X and perfected the transitions. The ending of our opening shows a very good bit of editing on the editing software, the handheld, POV shot flashes and jumps quickly towards Alice with a mask on, and this is very mysterious and surprising for the audience as it feels as if they are racing towards the possessed child.