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

As I had never even used a Mac before beginning this course, I found it very difficult to adjust to the new software. However, I found the whole technology experience very enlightening and educational, even if very daunting to begin with.
I thought that filming the production would be the easiest part of the task, but I was very mistaken. At first we experienced a lot of technical difficulty with getting the camera to try and work and we never seemed to have filmed enough footage, which resulted with our group often having to do extra hours of filming. Also, there were lots of problems with filming with the video camera on the tripod. As we were often filming shots close to water in the bathroom, we didn’t want to take any chances by holding the camera and risk dropping it, so we decided to use the tripod, which we hoped would also give us smoother footage. However this was not the case. We had problems ranging from the tripod wobbling every now and again to the camera drooping upside down halfway through a shot.
On the Mac we used programmes such as Garageband, Finalcut and so on, to edit our footage. I found that slowly learning to use these programmes paid off and editing or footage as a group was not as difficult as a imagined. I thought that garage band was extremely helpful when it cam e to producing our background music and finding other sounds effects to incorporate such as a scream or heartbeats. The advantages to using a Mac are that over time they are easier to use, the graphics are better and they are a very fast and efficient source of technology.