question 6

During the process of creating the media product I have learnt a lot about technologies. When creating the blog I learnt that keeping all of your work on a blog can help to prove that you know what you are doing when creating the media product as it provides a consistent record of the process involved in creating the film and why you make choices about the film.


The blog is also positive as it is a permanent record of your work, and so you cannot lose any of the work that you do. It also provides easy access from anywhere with an internet connection, such as your phone, laptop, tablet etc, allowing you to update it wherever you are.


The blog also allows easy planning for the work produced as you can save drafts and update them as well as embedding pictures to allow it to be visual and for the work to be easier to understand. I have been able develop my ideas through the use of the blog as I have been able to see each process during the pre-production and planning visually and in an organised manner, allowing me to see where I need to make improvements, and allowing me to easily compare my title sequence to the previous sequences that I have looked at. 

During the production of the film I learnt a lot about the technology involved in creating the footage. I learnt how to use a Cannon filming camera, such as how to use the composition grid, allowing to correctly use the rule or thirds.

I also learnt how to focus the cameras and that auto-focus is easier to use than manual. I learnt how to place the cameras on a tripod safely so that they do not fall off and I learnt that the tripods need to be level before filming. I also learnt that if you zoom in with the lens on the camera, the lighting changes and does not look very good, so you should manually move the camera to zoom in or out. Also, the cameras we used are not tape based, and so this allowed it to be quicker and easier for us to load the footage on to the computers and allowed better quality footage.

During post production I also learnt a lot about editing technology. For the preliminary task we used Premier Pro to edit the footage as this helped us to understand how to create match cuts, understand editing and understand the process of editing footage. I also learnt that editing software cannot make the footage look amazing unless you have good footage to begin with.

Another piece of technology that has supported my ideas throughout creating the final title sequence is laptops and the internet. Through the use of the internet, I have been able to research into similar title sequences, as seen on my blog. Being able to research into similar title sequences has allowed me to gain inspiration and fully understand the forms and conventions of a thriller title sequence, such as the audio and visuals related.