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

I used various different programmes when making and planning my media product for blogger to post the research on the thriller genre and the different stages of planning I have done before my final thriller product was finished. This helped in the organisation of our thriller as we could put it all together. We could also look back on the different stages we example:

• Blogger: I used undertook to get to the final product.
• Search Engines: Such as Google, Yahoo and Bing helped us research the thriller genre, we could look at other thriller openings and take ideas and develop them to help us crate a high quality product.
• Youtube: helped us because we were able to search different thriller openings such as Se7en, No country for old men, and the shower scene from psycho. It also allowed me to search for videos of analysis’ that gave me ideas to put on my blogger. Youtube also helped me 
• imovie: We used imovie to create the final thriller product, I learnt various amounts of techniques such as adding transitions, slow motion and how to make clips go faster, I also learnt how to overlap and add music so it fits in time with each clip, They were all used very effectively. 
• Digital Camera: The digital camera was used to shoot the movie, and to take photos of stills. By using this we were able to get a lot of shoots and we were able to carry out camera angles such as close-ups long shots and medium shots etc. 
• IDVD: We used idvd to add an effective title screen to make it look more professional
• Photoshop: we used Photoshop to create a photo for our identity, (Luem)however once we made the picture we didn’t think it looked as good as we first thought so instead we came up with the idea of having an egg timer. 

Through the process of creating my final media product I have learnt many editing techniques to help me create a high quality opening thriller. I have improved from doing my preliminary. By experimenting with different transitions and cutting clips I have managed to improve the continuity of my final product and make it flow more smoothly. I have learnt how to add, change and overlap music to make the clip look and sound more tense and create suspension.. The part wear the killer captures the venerable victim we wanted a sudden change in music to make it more dramatic, so we made it so when the music goes quiet it would then and we would overlap a sound effect of a beating heart with another sound effect of someone heavy breathing.

By having my own macbook at home it gave me a head start at learning how to use one, I had already used Imovie in the past so I knew the basis of it however by using it again I was able to gain more experience about how to use one. I also already knew how to use iphoto and how to import and export the movie onto and off the Mac so it would work on other computers.