Question 6: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product? Since the beginning of year 12 when we started media our group has learned a great deal about filming and editing. One of our group members, Paula was already very experienced in making and editing videos because she regularly keeps a video diary for her own personal blog. However, the rest of us didn’t have any experience at all and therefore we were able to learn both from our lessons and our group member Paula. The rest of the people in our class used the cameras which our school provided (Cannon HFM 306) we could’ve done this but given that Paula had her own and more advanced camera we chose to use that instead. The camera we ended up using was a Nikon D3200 with a 35 millimeter 1.8 lens. This lens had the advantage of enabling us to be able to focus on a certain subject and blur out the background. This was a benefit because it meant that it eliminated any other distractions, which could have altered the viewer’s attention. We decided to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our video because it was more advanced than other options such as iMovie but was still simplistic enough for us to be able to use efficiently. Premiere Pro allowed us to use short clips of under 3 seconds which you aren't able to do on iMovie and we used a lot of in our film opening. We used short clips because it meant we were able to show a variety of different camera angles and skills within the two minutes. Paula had experience of editing videos but not in the software we decided to use so, therefore we were all able to learn and help create our video. We progressed a lot from our preliminary video which we did in the first few weeks of starting media. We did not know many people and this meant that filming was a bit awkward. We used two boys in our year and filmed one of them walking through a door and then sat down having a conversation about their subjects. There is lots of laughing in the background because the actors weren’t comfortable. In our final media product, our actors were more comfortable being in front of the camera. We did a number of practice tasks before completing our final film opening and one of these was the mise-en-scène task. We were given 5 features of mise-en-scene and told to cooperate them into a two-minute video. We used the young male actor who was also used in our final piece as he is one of our group member’s brothers. The video that we produced had a few areas that were not as professional looking as we would have liked so we aimed to and succeeded in changing that in our final piece. One of the main criticisms of our mise-en-scene task was that we had a clip in it which lasted 21 seconds which was way too long and got boring. Therefore in our final video, we made sure to use short clips to ensure we avoided repeating this. We also learned how to do special effects in our editing and this meant that we were able to incorporate them into final film opening. We used both diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in our video. The diegetic sounds were sounds that our actors could hear when filming such as the sounds of the gravel when Eve walked towards to the house in the first scene. The nondiegetic sounds which we hear are the sounds that were put in after over the top such as the sound of the walking stick throughout the two minutes. (JN)(EH)