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

I feel that I have learnt a lot about both filming and editing. However, I couldn't have done it without the technology that was available for me to use. I used a wide range of different technology such as editing programmes and filming equipment to help me make my film look professional as I could. Without the technology that I used my film wouldn't have been as good as it was the reason for this is because each technology helps my film in a different way.

The main technology that help my film the most was an editing programme called Final Cut Express. This programme affected my film a lot because of the possibility's I was able to do with it. Examples would be cutting the shots so that I was able to add continuity to my film and dimming sound at certain parts this affect helped me a lot as my film involved a lot of wind which affected some of the dialogue within my film, because of this affect we was able to dim the audio which cut out the wind. Other affects that we used were colour correction, the reason why we used this affect was because some of our shots were too dark to see, from this affect I was able to make the shot brighter so that dark parts in our film were visible. I also added a blur affect to a shot to make it seem more dramatic. From my preliminary task my knowledge of final cut express has improved greatly. As when I started my preliminary task I had no knowledge of how to use the programme, I only knew how to cut shots and fade shots in and out. After completing my main task I now feel that I have sufficient knowledge of how to use the programme successfully.

Here is a example of a shot that has had a number of affects to it to make it more appealing than it originally was in this picture we see that it is quite bright, this is due to the affect colour correction which I used in quite a few shots to make the shots seem much brighter. This shot also contains the affect blur which makes the point of view shot of the actors vision seem blurry to make the audience know how the actor feels and the condition he is in.

Here is same the same shot as above but without the affects, as it is clear not a lot can be seen this is because this shot doesn't have the colour correction affect which means not a lot can be seen. Also the blur affect is in the shot, however because the shot is too dark the blur affect makes no difference and it cannot be seen. If I didn't have knowledge of how to use Final Cut then this would have been the final outcome for my film. But as I had learnt a lot from using the editing programme, I knew how to add these affects to my film and thus make it as successful as I could have.

Another form of technology that has helped me a lot is the filming equipment, the reason for this is because without the filming equipment a lot of the cinematography wouldn't have been successful. The reason for this is because one of the technological equipment that I used was a tripod. This helped me a lot through out my filming giving me the ability to have steady shots when I needed to. Without the tripod I wouldn't have been able to have steady shots, I also wouldn't have be able to pan as well as I did. The most important technological piece of equipment was the camera and using it affectively was going to separate my film from good to bad. As my preliminary task was the first time I had really used a camera other than to take pictures, I knew that I needed to understand how to use it innovatively. Examples of this would be the birds eye view shot in my film.