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

I have learnt various techniques and skills using iMovie, during the making of my media product which was an opening for a horror genre film. 
iMovie was relatively simple to control. Importing video from a digital camera was very simple. I had to put the USB cable onto a Mac computer USB slot and press import camera, it was very simple and reliable. 

Editing the actual film was simple as well. All I had to do was select what I wanted, and then trim what I did not want. Once I edited what I needed, I decided to see what other features iMovie had.  For example, I wanted to import some of my own pictures and music. iMovie let me select these items directly from iTunes and iPhoto. I did not have to go around looking for them; everything was there for me. I could also exit without saving which was good as it saved automatically. The transitions and on video text made it easier to make my sequence look a lot like a real film.

Overall I was very impressed with how easy iMovie was to use. I definitely like it better than Windows Movie Maker and would recommend this software to anyone wanting to edit video. The only drawback is that the user must be using an Apple or Mac computer in order for it to run.

The audio for my media product used were various sound effects, voice overs and sound tracks. For the sound tracks, my partner and i had to look for an uncopyrighted soundtrack therefore went onto Freeplay music and downloaded a sound track which we both agreed suited our media product. http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search/ 

Afterwards, we looked through various sound effects which were already available on iMovie and chose diegetic and non diegetic sounds to add into our media product, iMovie made our time more manageable as the available sound effects saved time, although we did do voice-overs and download one extra sound effect. The audio could also be trimmed and made louder and quieter.

The editing was quite easy to do with Imovie, as there were a variety of transitions and the clicking and dragging and shortening clips made it easier to use also more reliable. Due to the genre of our media product being a horror, my partner and I decided to change the colour of our sequence to make it look eerie and gloomy, using iMovie made this quite easy to do as i simply chose the clip i wanted to edit and change the brightness/saturation.