Charlie's AS blog: What have you learnt about technologies in the process of constructing your film?

I have learnt many things about technologies in the process of constructing my film sequence. New media technologies were vital for the construction, research and planning of our thriller trailer. For the construction and editing of my product we used Final Cut Pro, Sound Track Pro and Garage Band on a Macintosh. As well as this i used, Microsoft Office programs such as Word and publisher to write up analysis’ etc. I had never used these programs before and i am now very comfortable with using them and i have learnt a lot from them. For the planning, i created storyboards that i was able to edit and change before scanning and uploading to my blog for further feedback. For my research i used Google to search for helpful sites that improved my understanding of films and the codes and conventions of a Thriller Film. I also used sites such as YouTube and Vimeo to view Horror and Thriller trailers, to get ideas to influence my media product. As well as this i used IMDb to get names of directors and to search for more Horror and Thriller films to get ideas for the credits etc.