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

First and foremost, I learnt that shooting in widescreen was going to be nigh impossible whilst using a canon 100d - so I had to improvise by making crop bars which cut off a part of the clip in order to give it a more cinematic widescreen effect. To accomplish this, I literally just coloured the edges of a transparent image on GIMP and overlaid the image onto the adjustment layer above my film; as such, I learnt that the technological convergence of software was vital to filmmakers - as a borader range of tools at you disposal means you have more room to manoeuvre with creative pursuits during the editing process.
Premier Pro as a technology was also a great use whilst constructing my product due to the fact that Premier Pro allow me to color grade my footage. This was down with the RGB Curve, the cineon converter and the three way color wheels. What I learnt about technologies was that anything was possible within reason if you search hard enough for a youtube tutorial.
Tutorial I used:

EQ BALANCE
The EQ balance adjusts the sharpness and volume of the sound (I think). For example if you sharpen an image you will begin to see low resolution grain around the edges of an image and a starker colour contrast. As such, I adjusted the EQ for the phone conversation in the film opening; this made it sound as though I had recorded someone's phone message as opposed to grabbing sound from another clip (summer in the phone booth) and adding it in during post-production.
This tutorial informed me about the EQ balance and I am so grateful to the makers:


With After Effect, I learned that it was possible to adjust the dimensions of an image, which I had to use whilst inserting the  "Feature Presentation" intro (inspired by their use in Tarantino films such as Death Proof and Kill Bill.) Said intro was grabbed from this youtube clip., which I learnt was possibly through the use of a clip converter website; by typing ss before 'youtube.com-of-whatever-clip-you-want-to-download's' hyperlink, you get sent to another website which is similar to youtube2mp3. This was told to me by a friend in the US who also studies media. Which was done over Skype, on my phone: yet another example of technological convergence which proved useful, as communication with other creative sorts influenced the overall look of my film opening.


Without Youtube, I'd have no tutorials to steal or ideas to nick from existing film openings. Without Youtube at my disposal, my film couldn't be displayed to you lovely examiners. Also, I learnt in this project how to adjust the resolution to a higher quality which gave the opening a more polished effect than my previous endeavours (max. resolution for AS1 and A2: 360).


In the process of constructing this product, I also found that features on the CANON 100D Camera could be altered to change the quality of my picture. ISO and shuttered were set low during the indoor/night films, which lessened the amount of noise and grain in the image, but also meant that I had to consciously look for light (artificial, natural, already visible) whilst filming.