AS Media Studies: Foundation Portfolio Evaluation Question 7 by Niall

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

For the making of our film we have used the Blogger, Imovie, Garageband and the internet. All of these have specific uses and all helped us to make our film really effective and good.

To begin with, Imovie was what we loaded our film onto and what allowed us to edit it. We found Imovie quite easy to use and we soon got to grips with how to use it to successfully edit our film, for example it allowed us to cut clips, delete bits we didn't want, change the darkness levels, render it, change the order of clips and other things too. All in all without Imovie our film would not be as effective as we feel it is.

Secondly Garageband has helped us to create our music needed to accompany certain parts in our film and create the feeling we want. Also we recorded our own sounds and put these with sound clips already available on Garageband to achieve the desired effect. In Garageband we could put sounds over one another etc and a wide range of sounds were available on it so we were never short of choice and didn't struggle to create pieces of music we were happy with and that we felt fitted our film.

Here is where we recorded our own sounds which were whispering and heartbeat, we recorded the whispering sound by using a microphone and then uploading it onto garageband by using real instrument instead of software instrument.


Furthermore Blogger has allowed us to keep track of our progress, record everything we have done and document it. It shows us the progression from the beginning, from having the idea to actually creating and all the planning, practices and work in-between. We have found Blogger really useful when creating our film. 

Finally, we have used the internet throughout the whole process of creating our film. We have used it to research horror films, then more specifically psychological horror films, which is they type of horror film we have tried to create. We used it to work out the rating our horror film should be, to find out information on previous horror films that have been made and to draw inspiration from these. 

All of these technologies enabled us to be more creative and to use skills and improve our film greatly. They also helped us to maintain control over the film, as we could change/improve any aspect we felt needed it. In conclusion without all these technologies we do not feel our film would have been a success.