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

During the process of creating the film opening, I have learnt to use a Mac effectively along with a number of different programs. I did mainly the post-production things such as cutting the scenes, creating a production card and picking music.

This is a screen grab of my first attempt at editing our practice shots so I can learn how to add effects and the colour corrector. I learnt how to crop scenes, add effects and put music over scenes. I did the editing for the group but we discussed together how we wanted to do it. I also learnt different shortcuts in the program and became fluent in them.

Me using the 'flop filter' effect to flip our scene after receiving feedback from the rough cut. You can also see that I used Colour Corrector on the scene to brighten up the sequence. These were two of the effects that I learnt to use, it taught me how to change Contrast, Brightness and Saturation, these were very important in musicals as everything has to be bright and the Protagonist has to stand out from the rest.

I was also taught how to use Garageband, we were shown how to create a track using a range of instruments as well as a piano or plain vocals. Eventhough we didn't use my track for the production card, I now know how to use the program and can use my skills in later work. The program is very helpful when you want to create or alter a track you download.

The camera and tripod we were given to use.

As the director, it was also my role to tell my team members where to place the camera. Yasmine and I would often discuss where to position the camera to shoot effectively and we would look at lighting and  practice shots to make sure that the final shot was as perfect as it could be. During this, I also learned how to use the camera. I was not personally the camera operator (as I was acting) but I was in charge of the camera and tripod and would often look at the shots during my own time. I learned how to use the camera and play around with the settings as we would often have problems with some shots turning out blurry and this was due to the macro being turned on.