What new new skills have you learnt? What have you learnt from technology in this project?

In this project with out film i found that i developed many new skills and learnt quite a few things from it, from using new products from as little as the iMac to using new things to put in to our film such as the voice over. From the technical side then i learnt how to use 'iMovie' which was used on an 'iMac' which i also learnt to use. We were lucky enough to have a man in from Apple a few days before we started our projects as he showed us how to use the iMac's and how to use 'iMovie' on them, this was very useful as many of us had never used 'iMovie' before including me. We learnt how to cut and trim clips and edit things throughout the film and how to add in music over the film, we also learnt how to use many transitions in the film that i particularly enjoyed as whenever you went from one scene to another in the film or different clips then it wouldn't look right as it would almost jump from one bit to another which ruined the film so i liked to use the dissolve transition that i put into the film quite a lot as one shot would go to another so you wouldn't notice anything happening. I also liked to use the blackout transition as when it went from one scene to another then it would show there is time inbetween as the scene would blackout. From this we learnt the simpest of things such as transfering pictures across to the film to cutting and editing the film and putting music in.
Also i learnt how to use the camera recorder as i hadn't really used one before so i didn't really know what i was doing to start with, i found this very easy once i had picked it up though, but it will be very helpful to know how to use one and then upload videos to iMovie and edit them.
When filming this film i also learnt how to use an 'edirol' which is a piece of equiptment to use when recording a voice over, i think using this piece of equiptment was really good for our film as it brings more feeling and drama to the start of the film, it also explains to the audience what is going on, i also found this very useful to know how to transfer the voice over across to the film and edit it in.