Question 6

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

In order to construct this product for my coursework, I used many technologies from when I would plan on how to construct the product, to when me and my group would be in the midst of constructing our media product. During the planning process, my group incorporated many different pieces of technology into our blogs. We included slides from SlideRocket, spider diagrams from Bubbl and Prezi, shortened versions of videos from Tube Chop and verbal presentations from Go Animate. When our group would gain footage for our media product, we would use technology such as a moving image camera and a tripod. In post-production, we produced our film in iMovie. The non-diegetic sound included sound clips from Freesound.









The technologies that have allowed me to produce something creative was with some of the cinematography that I used. The videos above both show how I have been able to implement a creative use of cinematography into my group's media product.


This is my group's media product without non-diegetic sound from Freesound.


This is my group's media product with non-diegetic sound from Freesound.

From the two videos above, there is a massive difference between the creativity of the media products. The first of the duo of videos doesn't provoke any reaction from the audience. It doesn't make them anxious or scared, which is how the audience should feel when viewing a horror film. The second video does have non-diegetic sound, and because of that, the audience is able to react in a far more desirable way, and they elicit reactions of fear and anxiety because of the tensional music that is playing in the background. Because of Freesound, I am able to display my product in a creative way that will provoke a desirable reaction from the audience.

Tripods and moving image cameras are both technologies that require careful use. It is very easy to make mistakes when capturing footage using tripods and moving image cameras because they can jump very easily, and the shot will become unsteady as a result. Because of this, I have had to develop my skills when using the tripod and the moving image camera in order to carefully use them so the shots that would be captured were steady.

However, there have been multiple incidents where I hadn't used the tripod and the moving image cameras correctly, which required for me to film the same shot again, in order for it to become steady. In the long term, the mistakes that I have made with the tripod and moving image camera have helped me to develop my skills when using those pieces of technology, and have taught me to carefully use them to gain steady footage.