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

2. During our project we used various different
technologies , the main and most important
piece of equipment was the camera. The
camera was a Sony Handycam and belonged to
the media studies department. When it came
to the day of filming we experienced technical
problems with the camera and ended up using
Morgan's own personal camera which luckily
was also a Sony Handycam. Morgan’s camera is
HD so it gave us a good picture quality.
Another important piece of equipment was the
tripod, this enabled us to film a steady extreme
long shot, a steady close up and a panning
shot. The tripod we used was borrowed from
school as we didn’t have our own.

3. As soon as we had finished filming we began the
editing stages straight away. This involved using
another important piece of technology, the Mac
computers. We only had the choice of using the
Black Mac computer due to the camera we used
however this worked out better as we had
experience on these computers and therefore knew
how to use them effectively. However we did
experience some problems with the black
Macs, this was due to the fact that there is only two
of them compared to the six white Macs, they are
also newer and therefore more students wanted to
use them. The software we used to edit was
‘Imovie’ , this is a fast and effective programme
which holds many effects such as transitions. The
editing stages involved things such as dubbing out
all of the sound and then putting our own sound
effects back in. we also had the chance to cut
clips, speed clips up and slow them down.

4. Due to the fact that we were not allowed to use copy right sounds
or music we had to find a reliable website which offers copy right
free sound effects. We searched them on Google and came across
a website called http://www.freesound.org/ . This offered us
sounds that were easily downloadable and quick to find. We used
sounds such as ‘natural outdoors’ , this was used throughout the
final piece. Another sound we used was ‘Drone’ this was used
whenever the Zombie character was seen or insinuated.

5. When designing our production splash we had
the option of using a programme called ‘GIMP’
this software allows you to design and edit
pictures and logos. However after exploring
our options we decided to design and draw
our own production splash , this worked out
well due to the fact both me (Charlotte) and
Alice both do AS Art and design. After the
production splash was designed we took a
photograph of it using Alice’s Iphone, we then
emailed this to Morgan's hotmail and
uploaded it on to the Mac.

6. During the whole process of our project we used my
camera. We used it for things such as finding our
location, and blogging our recent activities. This
included things such as items we had purchased, and
the progress of our costumes.
Another form of technology used was Instagram, this
page was used as an update feed of all of our photos.
The photos included things such as us using the
Macs.
One of the forms of technology we
used was Twitter, we used this to say
what we were doing and when, this
was used mainly for our filming days.