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

In the initial filming process, we had to use various pieces of equipment, such as the tripod, to get a straight and even surface to shoot on:

The tripod was irritating at the beginning of the year because they were really small, and aside from the small hand crank, I was unaware you could raise it, so whenever we used the tripod, it was one of us lying or crouching down to operate it. Thankfully, however, we learned that the legs were extendable before we started this horror, otherwise the filming process would have been awkward indeed!
In this photo I am just filming around the area for two reasons, the first reason is because it was getting dark and I needed to see if we could film in the lighting, the second reason was to check for the tripod's stability.
Using the tripod was a challenge at first because I didn't realise that the legs extended. Fortunately though I figured this out before we started filming. The only tripod problem we encountered was that one of the legs was ridiculously stiff, and so we literally had Craig holding one end and me pulling on the leg to extend it, and then having to bash it against a tree to get it to go retract.
The second thing that we used (And quite possibly the most important) was the camera itself.

In this shot I am preparing to film the sequence where the masked murderer is hiding behind a tree, even though it is not very subtle, I believe this worked in the long run. The camera itself was a very handy piece of equipment; it had zoom, which we found incredibly useful when filming the end sequence. It also had a few features that we left out of the film, such as night vision.
The cameras were incredibly handy for the filming, and also 100% necessary, so it was good that we had good cameras.

The camera we were using throughout was a Sony Handycam Carl Zeiss:

These cameras are relatively simple to operate which was good when I started this course earlier this year, as I was worried I would push the wrong buttons and break the unit. However, my concerns were unfounded, and as of such, the filming process was relatively simple in the early days; even though editing was my problem in actually fitting the film together back then.

Thirdly there were props and costumes:

Although this wasn't the costume we used in the end, it does show a lot of the props, such as the white mask the murderer wore in the final scene. This mask was kindly rent to us by the drama department, at the time we thought we were the only ones with this mask, however most people used the mask in their filming also.

The second prop is the knife in Craig's hand.

This knife toy was originally brought for a costume day long back in Primary School where I went in as Peter Pan. It did come in handy for the filming however, as it is retractable, so it looked like we were stabbing him.

The problem with the knife we used was that it was very old, and so the plastic had become frail and delicate. As of such we needed to be very careful. We still managed to break the knife halfway through filming, although luckily, I make models and had glue at my home, and we stuck the blade back on and finished filming.

After the filming we went into college and edited together our film using Adobe Premier, this was really useful because it is a professional recording booth, and thus allowed us to tinker with the slightest detail, eventually allowing us to edit the film together almost seamlessly.

I must have learned something important during my time with this program though because I was lost the first time I used it; there are many options for editing; the most constantly used ones we used were the cross fades during many cuts and edits, and we also attempted ghosting but it messed with our film's outcome, and as a result, we removed this effect from the film. Overall, we used many effects that initially I found overwhelming, this was especially challenging for me, as I had never used Publisher before until literally 3 or so months ago, and I believe that I have learned an incredible amount about the program since then and over time though I've become much more fluent with this program, and can now use it confidently and make films carefully and very specifically.

Finally we had to create a company logo, in the end we settled with bloodthirsty productions and we had a corpse climbing out of a grave.

This logo was created by Craig Robson, although I had made a few early drafts, which you can see here. This is an incredible improvement I think, as I, like Publisher, had never used photoshop before this year, and with such a precise and immense program, I was completely overwhelmed by all of the functions, and at first I believed nothing would work. Now, I can make relatively simple images, although I have much to learn, I still believe I had come a long way since the beginning of this year. I also have the program at home so I can practice there as well, which comes in handy for many reasons.