1. 6) What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
By Imogen and Annabelle.

2. Technology used.
During the course , we have learned to use a lot of
different technologies. Most of which we had not
used before, they all have helped us hugely to
improve our work. Here is some examples of the
main technologies that we have used:

3. Wordpress and Slideshare.
Before this course, we had never used the Wordpress
(www.wordpress.com) website, but it soon became vital to us. This
webpage was used to set up our own personal blogs that allowed us to
electronically track our progress, upload key documents and
demonstrate our progression. Wordpress was also extremely
important in communicating all of our coursework to the examiner and
Mr Scargill (our media teacher). We learnt the basics through tutorials
and then furthered our knowledge through practicing.
Similarly to the Wordpress site, neither of us had
ever used Slideshare (www.slideshare.net) before. This clever website
allowed us to upload PowerPoint's and embed them on to our
blogs, this helped to make them as multi-media as possible and
demonstrate a variety of different skills.

4. Apple Macbook.
We used an apple
macbook for a lot of
different purposes
throughout this course.
Both of us used to have
Microsoft window
laptops, so this meant
teaching ourselves how
to use the unique apple
layout. Thankfully, we
are both quick learners
and we soon got used
to the differences but
we definitely had to
adjust!

5. iMovie and iDVD.
We used a brilliant
piece of
software
called iMovie to edit all of
our footage together and to try to
make it look as flowing and
coherent as possible. This software
helped us to make our movie more
precise and have a more
professional feel. It has a number
of different uses but these are the
main ones that we used it for:
 Editing Clips together,
 Cropping or rotating shots,
 Adjusting the lighting,
 Changing the sound,
 Adding titles,
This is a
software
that’s
available on the
apple MacBook’s. It is very
useful when burning events to
disc and it made our product
look a lot more professional by
allowing us to choose a menu
structure to show at the very
start of our movie This taught
us that it is possible for media
students, like ourselves, to
create a professional looking
movie. We learnt about this
through other media students
and teachers but we also found

6. YouTube and Social Networking Sites.
Youtube played a big
part in our media
coursework. It allowed us to
research into our genre by
looking at other similar
movie openings online. It
also allowed us to share
our movies, then embed
them into our own blogs in
order to show our teacher
and the examiner our work.
Although we had both used
YouTube before, we still
learnt a lot of new skills, for
example, we had never
Again, we had both
used this site before, but for
completely different purposes.
Throughout this course, we have
learnt that Facebook is a great
place to research and get
feedback from people who could
be potential clients. It allowed us
find out opinions from a variety of
randomly selected people.
Twitter is very similar
to Facebook in the way
that it allowed us to communicate
with our target audience to find out
their views. They are also both
great ways to advertise your
product and make people aware of

7. Music Downloads.
We used both freeplaymusic.com and soundjay.com to
get a variety of both sound effects and music for
‘The Unknown’. Both of these websites allow you to
download MP3’s for free as they are un-copyrighted.
For a low budget film company, this was very helpful.
We learned about how to find sound effects, how to
download them onto our laptop and then add them
into iMovie to accompany film footage.

8. Camera.
Despite having a few issues
with our borrowed
camera, it helped us hugely
and we could not have
produced our movie
opening without it. We
learnt how to operate the
different school camera’s
and transfer the footage to
the Mac’s. The camera that
we used to make ‘The
Unknown’ was not as high
quality as we would have
liked but we have still learnt
how to do a lot of different
things with the camera, for
example, we discovered
that is it vital to use a tripod
to prevent wobbly un-

9. Conclusion.
Technology has had a big part in our learning over the
past year and we have learnt so much about how to
use it approprately and efficiently. Not only have we
been introduced to new technologies (for
example, Wordpress), we have also widened our
skills in those that we already used (for example
YouTube). We can confidently say that we can use
all of the technologies listed above and that we have
learnt how to do so through taking advice from
others and mainly, a lot of practice. We have
thoroughly enjoyed learning how to use these
technologies and widening our abilities to improve
our knowledge. We are very much looking forward to
furthering our learning and building on the skills we