what have you learnt about technoglogies from the process of constructing the product?

We used the technologies given to us, such as the macs and final cut express, using the macs to do our film, were suitable for us, as they had all the technology we needed, on the mac but also we had two different editing stations on it, there was either final cut express, which is what we used, or there was imovie. we tried using imovie before we decided on which editing thing to use. i found imovie much harder and more difficult to use rather then final cut. Final cut express allowed me to view the editing options as well as the work I had done clearly, which was important to me because it helped me understand more when experimenting with different editing techniques.

When i tried editing the preliminary task, i was inexperienced at it, and i couldn't do it very well, and i only got a little time to do it as it was a very small task to do. Because I had never used final cut express before, everything I did was an experiment and it took me a long time to achieve the effects I wanted.

When it came to doing the final piece, the real opening sequence i found it hard still, but because of my involvement in the preliminary task I felt more confident with what cuts and effects to use. i understood how to edit, so i ended up editing some of the film and putting some of the titles into the film, as Jess showed me how to do it and i put 3 titles in, such as 'A RANGER FILM' and i also put the title 'can you see me now?' in so that it came in with the music and faded out with the music. with final cut express we found out that the most professional title effect is simple and sophisticated affects such ac Cross stretch as it symbolised that it is all going to explode, in the film and  makes it at suspense. this helped me progress my skills of the titles and final cut express.

The transitions we used in the film, we experimented on as well, we tried a lot of different transitions to see what looked good, we had about 3 in, but we realised it looked really unprofessional, so we changed it to just using one that was called 'addictive dislove' i thought this looked much more professional, so we kept it. also we had to see what font to use, she we tried a few of them, which i posted on my blog a few weeks ago, in the end we went with Charlemagne std because it was the one that was the easiest to read and had an edgy vibe to it.

Using the camera, was much easier then editing the film, we used two different camera's for the preliminary task we used a flip camera which wasn't very good and the quality of the film was rubbish and there wasn't many options on the camera that suited to make a film look professional.

We then got given another camera which was an actual video camera and made everything much easier to use and which made everything look more realistic, such as when we did tried doing different shots, for instance the zoom into a close up, the video camera was much smoother to zoom with. we also had a tripod to use to keep the camera still when we were doing some of the shots, such as the shot in the snow when Lydia and i were walking up the hill before i go to chase her.