What have you leant about technologies from the process of constructing this

product?

To produce our film, we filmed all of ours scenes on a professional camera along with a tripod to still the image when in mid filming process. We all took turns equally to have a go on the camera, to have a feel of the role of cameraman and to see who had the best cameraman skills. The camera produced good quality filming picture and captured sound well. We all had a basic knowledge of how the camera worked due to high modernised technology that is around today and available to us teenagers in school.

The film was recorded onto a tape and then wired up to our MAC computers and then edited on ‘Final Cut Pro’ software, which is used specifically for editing short films.

We also all had a go at Final Cut Pro and tested our skills on the software to also see who had the best knowledge of it. To which then we gave out different roles where some members of the group focused on editing and the others did research for better understanding of thriller film conventions. Final Cut Pro gave our film good finishing effects, and allowed us to do most of the aspects we wanted to add into our film, such as gunshot effects and adding in background music and slide transitions.

We also used other websites online, to find other special effects and noise effects to make our film even better, such as heavy breathing and a heart beat domineering sound. Using this software was yet also confusing and hard to use for us first timers, luckily we found some online tutorials to help us out with creating special effects, as well as having trusty help from a IT teacher who had great knowledge of using this program. Overall using final cut pro was a great success and we will be using it in the future also for creating other films.