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


During the creation of this short film 'The Dealership' I've learnt a great deal about technologies and they have vastly helped and improved the construction of our final media product. During the construction of my media product needless to say i did use a computer but below is a list of other technologies which was used:

1. Digital Video Camera
2. Digital Camera
3. Blogger
4. Final Cut Pro

  A Digital video camera was used in filming our final short film it was really useful because it enabled the camera man to take shots from all angles e.g over the shoulder and they can video hand held to create realism and suspense and it enabled them to video stationary to get all characters emotions in the shots. I never got the full use of a video camera before and when i did i was a bit shaky and first but then i got used to it playing with the zoom in/out to get the right shots in and just general videoing of random things to see if i can get that 'precision' shot. Then it was all systems go it enabled us to get our Final media product finished.






A Digital camera was used in taking location shots which we would later use in our final media product this was a simple and easy way to get clear shots of surroundings which we would discuss whether to be our location for our media product. Using this technology i learnt that you dont always have to use the most expensive equipment in order to get the best out of a film and also i learnt that its alway good to have a digital camera handy when in the process of making a film because you  may see something which you could include in your film or on your blog in discussion of it.


 The website blogger was used specifically to pin point the stages of where we were at in making our final media product and the research we done before we started thinking about making a film, the blog includes things such as our preliminary task which was just a film we made to get used to the camera's etc, questions explaining the ins and outs of int he filming business and just general research about different films and how we could entwine them with our media products. Personally I didn't know what Blogger was until we had to use in in or Media work so it was very hard using it at first , getting used to how to publish your finished work and how to upload pictures but i got used to as the days went along. It was very useful because it enabled me to write down ideas and brainstorms for our media products and then publish them when we actually got down to making the products in very fast succession.






Final Cut pro was used to get rid of any unwanted scenes and sounds in our preliminary and final media product. It enabled us to add credits and titles to our films and adding fades of different colors to create the flashback effect, furthermore it enabled the user to cut the filming time short so like our media product it was a short film we was aiming to do but during the construction of that we film a lot of scenes so thanks to Final Cut Pro we deleted and threaded wanted scenes together to create the movie up to our standards and have the perfect short film consisting of titles and credits and no forgetting a soundtrack. When i first heard we was using this software i was puzzled because  i never heard of it before due to me being used to using Windows Movie Maker back in High School, it was hard really getting used to because there is different tabs you have to click on in order to delete and thread scenes together and putting the actual scenes into Final Cut Pro was the hard part but we finally got used to it and it helped us a lot and got us to where we are now evaluating our finished media product.