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

In the process of constructing this product i have learnt alot of things about the  technologies.
The main thing i learnt that helped greatley was using final cut express more efficently. By acheieving this we were able to cut and edit our film to create much smoother moving images. We learnt how to use transitions and fades. The fades were extremley useful as we ended up using quite alot of them. This involved fading one clip down while the other clip was fading into more brightness/contrast.

I also learnt how to convert video files into the correct format that final cut express would understand. This involved using MPEG streamclip which we then imported the clips in and then had to set lots of settings so that it would convert correctly. Then all we had to do was import the new converted clips into final cut express. This was a greatly useful skill as we had alot of clips to convert and will also be handy in the future with other forms of converting such as music.

Also we learnt how to trick the audience, which is a great technology/trick within itself. In our horse scene we were unable to get the two actors on the horse at the same time safely. So therefore we had to change our whole horse scene completly. We had to film 3 different sections. We filmed the hooves of the horse as we had one person on the horse riding along. We did this by driving along side the horse on a quadbike with one person driving another filming. Then we had the riders point of view scene.

Then we had a scene where we scene just the two actors. To do this we got both our actors to sit on other peoples shoulders, where then they had to follow closley one behind the other to make it seem like they were both riding a horse together at the same time. While this was happening me and jess filmed from the side getting the actors going across from one side of the shot to the other.

This was an extremely hard task to trick the audience, I feel we have done quite a good job in this but this was defienantly the most hardest/important thing i learned.