"Digital technology turns media consumers into media producers.."

I have only been studying Media for a year, for my A Levels. For my AS coursework we had to create a short 2 minutes opening to a thriller movie. Of which we had to plan, film and edit within a group of 4 people. As it was my first year, I had to learn how to use all the equipment such as the camera, laptop and edirol. To make our film opening to the best of it's ability we had to learn different filming techniques that we could have included in our coursework. We learnt that it is important to keep the camera steady, although we want the shaky effect we got a bit carried away and was a bit messy. We also had to film on two separate days due to not enough film and therefore the lighting was different. We also realised that it is really important to use the same camera throughout the production of our introduction as the settings are different and we had to change a short piece of film from HD to normal setting during the editing stage.