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

YouTube has helped during the production of our thriller opening because the videos clips are free, it allowed us to search into different thriller clips and openings giving us an idea of how we wanted our thriller to look. The clips also showed us different techniques thrillers use, for example, different camera shots and film noir. During my research and planning of our thriller opening I a variety of videos clips to help show my point and give examples of different techniques and sub-genres. As well as having video clips YouTube has a range of music videos which allowed us to choose the type of music or if an unsigned band the exact music we wanted to include in our thriller opening. YouTube has provided us with lots of ideas and inspiration during the making of our thriller.

As well as YouTube, my blog has been useful during the production. It has allowed me to post my work and allows all of my work to be in one place as video clips, photos and links can be included in posts to support work. On my blog teachers can give feedback which I recieve before the next lesson allowing me to imporve my work for the lesson. The blog was a bit confusing when I first starting using it but the blogger website isn't to complicated and became easy to use. It allows me to keep my work in one place and the labels help others and I to find work easily. Blogger helps my work to be very well organised.

Digital camcorders was the main piece of technology used when filming our thriller. Throughout the filming of our thriller production my partner and I shared out the camera work so we both needed to know how to use the camera correctly. We shot in two different location which both contain a lot of different camera shots and movements which the camera being handheld helped as it was easily portable. The camera allows us to rewined and fastforward through to see the footage, this was useful because we were able to redo or change shots. The footage was filmed on a small tape which means we were able to move the tape from camera to camera. Also the camera connect to the computer so we were able to quickly and directly download the footage ready to edit.

Adobe Premier Elements was the program we used to edit our thriller. It allowed us to crop, use effects, cut and other tools to edit our opening. For example, in this shot we have used effects to make the clip black and white, which helps gives the effect of past time as the clip is a flashback. Throughout our opening we used the time tool a lot, this helped us slow down or speed up the action according to what fitted. The program was quite easy to use as we had practice from our prelim task, but i also learnt new skills and I will be able to take them with me through the media studies course. Adobe Premier Elements was very useful and our thriller turned out how we wanted it to look.