What have you learnt about technologies from the processes of constructing your media product?

I've learnt some things about constructing technology for this film, including editing. We have been using Imovie to edit our film on. My job is to do the mise-en-scene which involves mainly costume and the setting. For the costume, we were looking for some office clothes and went with the stereotypical clothes like a jacket and black skirt with tights. I have written more about this and about the setting and the costume later on in the blog.

The setting was fairly easy to find as we needed an office to shoot the office scenes, and my dad works in an office, so what better way of using someone's office than his. We needed a flat so that we could do the home scenes, and a member of our group said we could use his and so we did. We also used some streets to shoot our street scenes and everything turned out fine in the end. All of the settings were quite close to our college, which was useful so we didn't have to travel far to get where we wanted to go to.

With the camera work, we used a lot of angles, especially long shots. At first we didn't do enough close ups, but now we've made sure we've included some. Our film involves rain and unfortunately, we haven't been able to shoot it on a rainy day, so if worst comes to the worst we'll have to edit in the rain by using it as a special effect on Imovie. We have had a look at what it looks like, and it's not as good as real rain but it's good enough, we can also adjust the amount it rains, we can increase/decrease it whatever suits our fancy. To do this on Imovie, you open up the special effects bit which is found on the edit file, and once you've found the rain effect you click on it, there should also be a bit where you can increase/decrease the amount of fake rain you want so have a fiddle with that and ta daa! You can control your very own artificial rain. By all means you can try other effects like we did in our movie.

Here we have an example of how we imported our film from the video cam in to the laptop where we began to edit it.

We added a little bit extra to the film which wasn't in the storyboard. We thought it would be good if Alex would turn off an ipod at her "home" and at the same time the music of the whole film would stop too.