Media Evaluation - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

To create our product, we used two programmes. These were ‘iMovie’ and ‘Garage Band’. Garage band was not new to me, as I had used it in a previous year, but creating something for our thriller still wasn’t easy. We all had ideas (good ones at that) but finding the appropriate section on garage band proved to be harder that first thought. In fact, we didn’t even begin our search for a soundtrack on garage band – our original soundtrack was from a signed band, so we had to remove it. It was a strong blow to our product as we thought it went really well with the piece, and had trouble letting go of it. However, we eventually mixed together a few things (some found on Youtube etc.) and created a second soundtrack we were all happy with.

I don’t think any of us had used iMovie before, but we found that we picked it up quickly which allowed us to move ahead with our product. This is also an important note because we ended up making three final pieces (hopefully each was better than the last…) because the first two seemed to be missing something; we didn’t know what it was, but the whole thing just didn’t come together when we finished everything. Our tutor told us that it “didn’t quite make sense”, so we added in a few more scenes (we went and did some more scenes during our free periods and lesson-time) to fill in any gaps in the story-line.