Evaluation: Question Six; What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the process of developing our media product we used many new technologies. Before my preliminary I had never used a Apple Mac and that enabled me to practise with it so when it came to my main task, I had a better understanding of the product. The editing programme's available on the mac's were also a new technology of which I, therefor our preliminary allowed me to practise for our main task.
Alhough I have used a camera before, it was a lot easier to film when using the tripod as the shots were steadier. Also, the benefits of the camera was the easy mobility: they were easier to travel with (when filming in other locations). The Apple Macs were useful because they have their own video editing programme. The programme enabled us to organise the clips and made chronological editing a lot easier; the editing facilities within this programme enabled us to edit better than we would have earlier: the transitions used for editing helped us to integrate our music into our film smoothly. The use of black outs on the programme emphasised the transition from one world (Reality) into another (Fantasy). Whilst these technologies had benefits, they also had limitations. The camera's made filming outside difficult as the microphones were small and unable to capture sound properly, if it was a windy day then the camera would catch the sound of the wind and make dialogue a lot harder to hear. When using a tripod there are limitations in mobility as we could not perform dolly shots. Limitations of the Apple Macs were that there was only one programme to use and this programme only offered specific editing processes. Since our film was a fantasy genre it required alot of editing, mainly special effects, transitions and CGI (however CGI and SFX are very costly).