What have you learnt about technologies from the

process of constructing this product?

Daniel Bruce

IntroThroughout both the editing and filming process of my film

(Ultimatum) I have learnt that there are various things you can do that greatly enhance the end product that you have. For example as the Director of my film I wanted to include scenes of intimacy between the Father figure and the son, thus creating empathy among the audience as the plot begins to twist and that relationship becomes torn apart, by including a deeply underlying paradigm supported by clever editing which will use flashbacks, and montages to add emotion to the sequence. Myself and Connor spent lots of time in the editing studio trying to figure out different ways we could represent emotion to both the audience but establish this relationship with the actors throughout the sequence, I felt that if I could do this then we could entice our audience and engage their interaction further.

Editing TechniquesAs the Director of my film I wanted to include scenes of

intimacy between the Father figure and the son, thus creating empathy among the audience as the plot begins to twist and that relationship becomes torn apart, by including a deeply underlying paradigms supported by clever editing which will use flashbacks, and montages to add emotion to the sequence. Myself and Connor spent lots of time in the editing studio trying to figure out different ways we could represent emotion to both the audience but establish this relationship with the actors throughout the sequence, I felt that if I could do this then we could entice our audience and engage their interaction further.

SoundAnother fantastic way to utilise modern day technology when

constructing our film was through the art of Foley. Foley is a fantastic way to really bring a thriller film to life adding that professional edge that a thriller film requires, with the help of Foley we were able to turn a bland opening sequence in to a deep and eerie thriller which truly captivated its audience from start to finish. We conducted our Foley in the Music Department using the Garage Band software on the Mac, this software allowed us to add in and record more professional sounds to our sequence. Some of the sounds we added were voices which were later edited to sound more clear to the audience in our opening sequence. Another great addition of using Foley is the atmosphere it adds throughout, using Foley we were able to take recordings of a specific environment and replace the low quality clips which came with our recording.

New Social Technologies Over the period of making our media film we have had to make sure that we could access

our audience and produce blogs on a range of different social based sites, some of these include the likes of Skype, in which we used to Skype Michael Harrowes, a professional film editor. Furthermore I have used various technologies to aid my blog, such as SoundCloud,

Prezi, YouTube, Lino, Pinterest and Blogger. I felt that these new technologies really improved the function and aesthetical side to my Blog, as without it may have looked very

plain and boring.