What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing your product???

Ah, technology, mans new best friend... I have learnt my fair bit as well whilst taking on my projects, including the ancillary tasks. Being clueless about a Mac does'nt really help when you need to edit. Thankfully, with alot of guidence i FINALLY got the hang of it. Once I had found the "special effects" icon in imovie, thats when things got alot more fun. By simply adding in a slow-mo effect I mannaged a technique i thought was out of my league. It gave my dead girl a more sinister look, as she strode towards the camera slowly with an evil smile.
However, audio was a different story altogether. Syncing was the one thing that I had to learn, which proved alot more difficult than it looked. It meant that I had to sit completely silent whilst my actors recited their lines over and over again. But hey I gained a new skill from all that hard work.
In getting the product right, meaned that the technology used is extremely important. For example, if I had taken a photo of my dead girl and printed it with the above words, "Dead Revenge" then yes, it would have had the same aspects of a poster but certianly not the same effect. So out came the green screen! Having never used it before I had really no idea why anyone used it at all, untill I realised how much easier it made things. Just take out the green, pop in a previously shot image and whallah, a poster with a background. Like magic.
Of course to do this however I needed to read up on greenscreening and photoshop. Not so magical now, but still very interesting and useful! By using photoshop I managed to do things I thought impossible such as adding in veins to the dead girls eyes, and making her skin pale with the effect of shadowing under her eyes.
Publisher was also one of the main technologies I used as to complete my magazine cover aswell as the internet to research what I needed in order to make my project a success.