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

During the pre production and research section of the project I used Google for almost everything. It is the best search engine out there and the web 2.0 website searches for any keyword you type in. To be honest I haven't learnt anything new about it other than the fact it is a web 2.0 website. YouTube is another website is used a lot. I have used this website so much before that I knew it inside out and I used it to it's fullest to aid me in the research process. Every trailer I watched of existing products was on youtube, also any videos which are posted on my blog have been embed from YouTube. That last bit is what i have learnt about this specific bit of technology. Embeding videos can be very useful as a blogger/journalist. Blogger was a completely new piece of technology to me, i have never come across this website before and it took me a while to get used to. The linking of different media to this blog is useful skill which i will now use when writing my personal blog. Adobe Photoshop is the programme I used to create the poster seen in one of our scenes. I have really good editing skills already due to all the times I used this programme in years 9,10 and 11, during my ICT diploma course. I didn't learn much, but it refreshed all the knowledge i had about this programme from before. I collected all my footage using a digital SLR Camera with A large lens. The camera had an automatic focus option however for better results I usually stuck with using the Manual focus. I learnt that the without the tripod the shots would be of a poor and unprofessional standard which is why every shot i ever recorded (other than the floor, punching shot) was with the use of a tripod. I discovered that to record with this specific SLR camera you need to pull down the red button and then press it. One of the problems which reoccurred throughout was the low battery life of the camera which is why wee always tried to have both batteries charged at the same time so we can replace them when necessary. As far as as the other features of the camera go, I didn't feel the need to learn about the in depth since automatic settings were good enough and using the flash was not necessary. Royalty free, copyright free and license free websites were crucial to us as we had to pick a soundtrack for the film which we were free to use without any legal boundries, and luckily for us one of our friends produces his own music which meant that we didn't have to look for both our songs on these websites. I found that the websites which contain free music have so much choice and variation that it is hard to decide which song to use.