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

When I first started this project, my group used a digital compact camera like other groups in the media AS class. This also allowed us to take photos too. Although the quality wasn't the best, like many other horror films this wasn't the main priority. At several different occasions we used a tripod, at first i thought it was difficult to pan, as its important to get the characters full body in the shot.However with practise I managed to get use to it and learnt new skills when using the camera. On one shoot we'd forgotten a tripod therefore used hand-held effect. Fortunately for us it worked and made it look as if its from the characters point of view when researching more into horrors we also learnt that this was one of many conventions, we decided it looked good so kept it. I then learnt about cross cuts and now know how important it is to make it look like its happening and keep continuaty a main factor rather than having several different clips otherwise it wont flow well. When putting together the credits we used a programme called 'After Effects'. This was very different to something id use before however it was easy to get the hang on and soon after we were changing what type of font and what effect made it show up better on screen. I then learnt to import it onto Adobe Premiere. Previously i hadnt used Adobe Premiere very much so making the preliminary was an important task. Not just for our ideas but so we could test what shots worked,what effects looked good whilst editing and just getting use to changing basic things. Such as cropping or adding sound.