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

Canon ZR800 (Mini DV digital camcorders) I used this all through the making and preparing

of our thriller. This includes our preliminary exercise, our rehearsal and our opening of ‘One by One’. However before I started using the cameras our teachers taught us how to use them, for example, turning them off and on, how to start and stop recording.

iMac computers; I learnt many things but using the iMac

computers as I had never used them before. I used the iMac for applications used to edit our thriller opening, to blog, research and to find our music/ make our music.

Finalcut Express; Final Express is an application on the iMac

computer that I used to edit all our filming. This was very tricky for us as we haven’t used it before. I learnt how to use it by going through a tutorial online and gradually learning how to use it by asking our teachers.

Livetype; I used livetype to create our title sequence and

our IDENT. This is also an application on the iMac computer that I haven’t before used. I learnt to use this by experimenting and choosing different aspects we like.

Safari; Safari was very helpful when my group needed

research, upload our videos and to use my blog. I found it very easy to use as it was the same as internet explorer.

Social Networks; Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter

were used to promote our thriller opening and ask people to fill in my surveys about thrillers.

Youtube; This was used to upload our videos and to get

the embed code to transfer it to my blog. This was really easy to use as I have used it at home before.

Mobygratis;

Mobygratis is a website that contains unsigned music that students like us could use for school projects. However before I could use the music I have to ask a few questions and wait until I had permission to use it. My group just looked through music and figure out what would sound good in certain scenes.

Blogger; On blogger.com I created my blog to show my

process of research and our thriller opening. This was interesting to use as I was not used to using a blog to show what I have done.

Wordle; I created a word cloud from wordle to show what

aspects of a thriller that the teenagers who answered my survey liked. I thought using a word cloud would make my blog more interesting.

Survey Monkey; I have never used survey monkey or made a

survey in my life, therefore I thought it would be complicated, however I was wrong as it was very easy to used. I didn’t need any teachers help as I did it at home. I created a survey for people at home (including other members of my media class) to answer so I could get more information from the public about thrillers.

Digital cameras; My group used digital cameras, that have been

supplied from school, to take pictures of our locations (the flat and the forest).