What have you learnt about technologies from the process of contructing this product?

Throughout this part of the AS media course i feel i have learnt and developed many skills. Whilst filming the opening scene of dangerously in love i have learnt many new skills.

Camera.

One of the main things i used during the filming was a camera. We used a cannon camera, before filming the opening scene of dangerously in love, we filmed a premliminary task, throughout this i learnt how to start filming and how to pause, i also learnt how to zoom in and zoom out. This also taught us how to hold the camera steady whilst filming. Filming the premliminary task helped to build confidence in using the cameras which was useful when filming out final opening scene. However i still learnt many more new skills such as how to film a reaction shot, when filming our final piece.






Tripod.

We used the tripod for some parts of our filming, this helped us to keep the camera very steady making it look much more professional. I learnt how to attach the camera to the tripod and was then able to move it horizonatlly and vertically. This piece of equipment caused quite a few problems sometimes as it was sometimes too short or to tall to film certain aspects of the film.








Blogging

Blogging has become a big part of this media AS course. This is where the group can keep up to date as to what work is being done. It is also a way of me showing how i am working throughout the course. To start with i created an account on Blogger, i then learnt how to make new posts, edit posts, copy pictures and link web addresses to the post as well.

Once i had learnt the basics i could then start making regular posts throughout the making of the opening scene dangerously in love. I could then develop my skills further learning how to change the font, making it different sizes and bold and italic as well.

Once i was familiar with all these skills i then learnt how to tag my posts which helped members of my group and my teachers to see what work i had done. I also learnt how to embed codes into the posts which enabled me to be able to have videos in my posts.





Macs

Macs were a very new thing to me before i started media. I have learnt a lot about Macs during this part of the AS media course.

At the start i found it very hard to use, as i was used to a normal computer. But after a couple of weeks i found myself very familiar with the macs.

Final Cut Express

Final cut express is a programme that we used a lot during the editing of our opening scene. This programme on the macs allowed you to add music over the top, add in special effects, cut buts out and many more. I feel i have learnt a lot from using Final cut express and am now fully confident in using it.

Youtube

I had to learn how to create and manage a youtube account as we needed to upload our preliminary tasks and final video to youtube. This helped a lot as we had very quick access to the video, simply going on to youtube and searching for the video. This also made it easier to get onto our blogs as we just copy and pasted the link into the post. We also used youtube in a lot of our background research, and when we needed examples of videos from thrillers already made, we could just copy and paste the links into the post.