What have you learnt about technologies form the process of constructing your media product?

From the process of constructing this film intro i have learnt a lot as i haven't really used an editing programme or a decent camera before. For the preliminary exercise we had to master a few basics which i didn't know existed for example the 180 rule, match on action and big close ups. As an exercise we didn't didn't find these elements to film hard however i learnt the terminology for them.

For our filming we used the camera outside of the classroom and found that lighting became an issue. The weather changed and the white balance on the camera left us with a blue tint on our filming. The lighting from inside Andys flat did not match the light from other areas, for example in the office and outside. Therefore we wanted to add a black and white effect on the intro, however we couldn't as the programme on this Apple Mac wouldn't let us. Also with the camera we came across a problem, we out to film on the one occasion and the camera went out to film on one occasion and the camera died withing a very short period of time. This was annoying and i think out max filming time was 45 mins. With the camera we had to use the tripod this piece of equipment made a big difference to our filming and the quality of it. With the tripod the camerawork was more stable, when Andy did a hand-held effect, we could see the difference in quality. Therefore we used the tripod almost all the time. Throughout the filming we did change cameras and the zoom on the camera we used wasn't very smooth and we found it hard to control.

I also learnt how to use the digital programme on the Apple Mac called IMovie. This editing programme is easy and quick to use, we didn't have to wait long for our clips to load. We used different transitions throughout the intro, dissolves, overlaps and fades in and out. We wanted to put a dissolve at the beginning but we couldn't as our clips were too short. We also played with the speed and slowed down the raindrop once it was on the editing programme. We also applied the effect of fake rain, this looked very real as the grey lighting matched the effect well. The titles we found could not be moved up or down the screen which we found a disadvantage.