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

Constructing this media product has helped me to learn a lot more on different technologies. The editing software we used on the Macs known as "Final cut express". By constructing my media product I leant how best to use this software, how to create the best effects and manage different videos clips as well as music samples. I also learnt how best to use a camera and many different effective camera shots that can be used. I also used a tripod which helped greatly to create the camera steady when filming. Here is an example of the tripod we used, with out it our shots would not have been steady and they may be quite shaky.

These three different things have all been learnt only because of constructing my media product, I learnt how to use these things effectively to help construct my media product. The editing software was a great help to creating my media product as it allowed me to create effects such as fade transitions to make my media product run smoother, to dim the sound of the wind hitting the camera and to make effects such as "echo" which created an effect that made things be seen as if in a drunken state which was a great effect for our media product. Here is an example of the shot before we increased the lighting and added the echo effect. On the right is the shot after we added the effects, we can see theire is a difference and it helps to create the illusion for the audience on how the main character must be feeling and what is going on.

Without the help of final cut express I would not have been able to make our media product look professional and run smoothly, it helped great with adding titles, continuity and differerent effects. We often used the colour editing part to increase certain colours throughout our media product, this was to attract the audience's attentions and to make things stand out. For example when the main character starts to dial the numbers on his mobile phone we made the phone stand out and we reduced the reflection of the camera behind it. Here is a screenshot of the colour editing software we used often for great effects. To the right of the colour screenshot is evidence of us using final cut express to edit out media product, you can see how we learn about changing the audio and how we positioned differerent fade effects to help make the ransition from differernt shots run smoother.