Technology Explanations

Courtney Few

Blogger

Blogger was one of the main

technologies that I used. This was the

main centre for creatively sharing my

work and allowing it to be organised

into different pages, such as ‘Genre

Research’, ‘Audience Research’,

‘Planning’, ‘construction’, ‘evaluation

1’, ‘evaluation 2’, ‘evaluation 3’ and

‘evaluation 4’. Using this technology

allowed me to gain new skills in

presenting my work through a different

way other than on paper.

Slideshare and SlideBoom

These technologies allowed me to upload

Microsoft office work such as PowerPoint

presentations and publisher work online so I

could embed the code and put it onto my

blog. This is one of the only ways that I can

share my work onto the blog. Slideshare was

my main website which I used and which I

could use.

Research and

Planning YouTube

Prezi

Poppet

Social Media

Google Docs

The Internet

Digital video camera

DaFont

Google

IMovie

Microsoft Office

Survey Monkey

FontSpace

Slideshare

The Internet

The first main technology I used was the internet

this was a vital technology to use as it has very

helpful websites and search engines. I made use of

websites such as YouTube, Popplet, Google etc.

This helped me in research and planning to

discover conventions of Psychological Thriller,

allowing me to look at existing products in this

genre. This allowed me to be inspired successful in

researching and planning my trailer.

On the right is a screenshot of me watching the

psychological thriller ‘The Number 23’, this allowed

me to find the conventions in this genre’s products

to allow me to be successful in producing my

product.

Goggle Docs

I used Google Docs to produce my initial ideas. I used

this technology because it allowed me to easily adjust

my ideas so I could add them onto the list if I later came

up with anymore plots, themes, character traits and

representations of the trailer planning.

Because I was working with a classmate this technology

was useful so we could both add our ideas on whether

we was together or not.

This technology prevented us from clashing our ideas

because we was able to write down what we came up

with and have a fair discussion.

Here is a screenshot of our initial ideas plan which

ended up having my contribution to it, but the idea was

to share it so this is why this technology was useful.

YouTube

YouTube allowed me to easily watch

existing products of Psychological

thriller films whilst also being the source

technology of publishing out IMovie

videos onto them so we could easily

share with the target audience to get

feedback and also to embed onto our

blogs.

The image on the right is how I was

using YouTube to upload my first draft

of my trailer to YouTube.

Popplet/Prezi

I used the two creative

technologies Popplet and Prezi in

order to publish work in a creative

manner. Not only did the work look

more fun but it was also a way of

organising work effectively. Prezi

allowed me to have a certain

topic and to go into each branch

of it through different themes and

Popplet allowed me to create a

mind map which was very

effective on plotting ideas down.

Audience Research

Within the audience research I used technologies such as

Survey Monkey, which was the way I created questionnaires

online creatively to get feedback from my target audience

to help get feedback so I can improve. To publish the online

survey to my targeted audience I posted the link to my

questionnaire on the social networking site ‘Facebook’ in

which gathered peoples feedback fast and effectively. I

also tweeted the link on ‘Twitter’ which also got many

responses quickly.

Not only did I create online questionnaires but also created

a wall wisher, where I post questions on a wall and get

responses posted back, this technology allowed me to gain

new feedback technologies that was fun and effective.

Production Still Camera

Video Camera

YouTube

IMovie

PicMonkey

Photoshop

Microsoft Publisher

Social Media

IMovie (Editing Technology)

In order to present the information that I found in my research, I

used another technology which is IMovie, this allowed to present

my work in a new and creative video. I not only used IMovie in

my research but also for producing the trailer itself, from

transferring the clips from the digital camera onto the Apple

Mac, and onto IMovie. IMovie allowed me to fade out and fade

in, put parts into slow motion. The only thing that was not

successful in using IMovie was that in parts of the editing it is too

vague and there is a limit on how much you can edit.

Filming Technology

The camera I used to film my trailer was the Nikon D3200.

The high quality of this DSLR camera allowed me to film in

a high definition of 1080p which allowed it to become

more professional to resemble a professional product.

With this I was able to be able to get different camera

shots because I was able to have more tilt shots that in my

trailer focused on a weapon resting on the bench, which

made it look a lot more like a conventional trailer.

The ancillary products I used a Canon still camera this

allowed me to get high quality images to put on the film

poster and film magazine front cover, and this allowed the

quality definition was constant in all my production work.

Font Sites

The technologies I used for fonts within my

promotional package was ‘FontSpace’ and

‘DaFont’, which were both essential in the

production of my ancillary tasks.

In the planning of the process I gathered a

variety of possible conventional fonts from these

technologies, I experimented these fonts in my

ancillary drafts which was then narrowed down

to the most eye-catching and exciting looking

fonts.

Evaluation Microsoft Office

Prezi

Poppet

IMovie

YouTube

Social Media

Digital Camera

Glogster

Microsoft Powerpoint

Microsoft Powerpoint allowed me to present my

work in an interesting way. Not only with

different and eye-catching designs but using

animations and transitions.