1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

One of the many technologies That i learnt from the construction of my media product was the use of the website slideshare(Shown below), from this website I was able to upload many pieces of my research and planning work concerning the final product, and upload it to my blog, it was a website I had never heard of let alone used, before the construction of my media product when I needed to upload work onto my blog which i did through the use of slideshare when documents or PowerPoint's needed to be uploaded, this was done when uploading such things as my six film analysis's and my conventions for all thriller films, which were done quickly and efficiently by slideshare.

Keepvid is yet another website I had not heard of or used before constructing my media product, and it was a very useful and easy feature to learn. I had used it many times throughout conducting my research, such as when analyzing the 6 films of my genre and i needed to convert my videos of these films so i could easily upload all 6 of them to my blog, capable for public viewing anytime they wanted. Keepvid was also used to convert my Preliminary task, which was soon uploaded to my blog, allowing me to view and analyze it for future reference.

imovie maker was something completely new to me, but it proved essential in making my final as well as draft product, as well as various other videos posted on my blog. Unlike websites I had used before the imovie proved a little more challenging to use, as their were multiple options of ways to improve your product and also various ways of editing your videos which while at first seemed hard, towards the end seemed easy. Imovie allowed us to cut out any irrelevant pieces out of our media product so that it would be able to produce something that matched our original film synopsis as well as follow some of the conventions of thriller films that we had analyzed. In addition we were also able to edit clips from other websites, an example being the Warner bros. clip shown in the beginning of our final product, which was cut down from a much longer video and edited so that it would fit into our using the tools of imovie. In addition, we learned how to use the effects in editing to our advantage by using transitions such as fade in and out to make our shots in our film(especially jump cuts) seem more fluent and smooth. Finally imovie allowed us to compress all of our work into a single file and from there we were able to convert or publish our videos the way we saw fit.

The most prominent of the technologies I learned to use was that of Blogger in which we used this to record all of our research, planning and evaluation. This allowed us to post up timetables of when we would be doing certain activities, such as filmind which meant we could refer back to it to get organised which helped as sometimes not all time were able to reach these deadlines. Our blogs were also used as a base where we constantly referred back to all our conventions summarised from the thriller films we analysed. In addition our blog entries are allowed to be see and commented on by the public allowing them to comment and give feedback to us which ultimately helps us improve our research and ideas. Finally, our media work posted on our blog can shown in multiple formats increasing the visual appeal and sense of professionalism.