What have youlearned about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
Technology/ site used Why we used it Strengths Weaknesses What we learnt
Slideshare To upload our
PowerPoints from
microsoft, for example:
Codes and Conventions
of Horror and our
Questionnaire Results.
Easy to use, we had to
only make PowerPoints
on Microsoft and upload
onto the website. Such as
our, questionnaire results
and script. Also quick to
upload onto the website.
We had difficulties
uploading our slide
shares onto our blogs, but
eventually we overcame
it.
Another way to produce
different information in
various ways and
interesting ways.
Youtube To upload our Preliminary
Task, Film Pitch and Final
Opening Sequence. Also
to upload various videos
onto a blog from other
horror movies.
Easy to use, accessible,
provided more information
for us. Also uploading our
videos was easy and
quick.
When uploading to our
blogs we had difficulty
finding our own videos.
We learn that there are
various ways we can
upload onto our
blogs, easy accessible
ways.
Camera: To film our preliminary
task, our film pitch and
opening horror sequence.
New, updated camera.
Easy to use and upload
onto the mac computer.
Difficulty to film in certain
lights/rooms/settings.
When we filmed in places
such as graveyards we
had great difficulty to film.
Also the battery life was a
negative, as we could
only use the camera for a
certain amount of time.
How to film with the
camera more efficiently
and use lighting. Also how
to use technology and
became confident with it.
Computer/iMovie We used the mac
computer in our school
and used iMovie to edit
our opening sequence.
The new software and
mac computer allowed us
to decide out of many
editing
Because we had never
used this before, we had
difficulty using it at first. It
is a complicated software,
but after we used it a few
times we were
comfortable with it.
We learnt how to use the
new software, also the
editing software was
successful.
2.
Twitter
To inform ourtarget
audience on our new
“film”. Just like production
companies such as
Working Title, we made
our own social networking
sites such as Twitter and
Tumblr to update our
audience. This would be
one of our ways to attract
mass audiences for our
film.
Twitter and Tumblr are
fairly simple to use and
quick to upload our recent
updates. This is why our
target audience use these
sort of websites to interact
with friends. We used this
to update people on our
opening sequence and
our production company.
We didn’t have many
followers on our accounts,
this is due to only having
a small production
company. However, if
were to have our own
production company this
would be a great
marketing technique to
attract a young audience
and keep them informed.
We now have an
increased knowledge on
both the websites and
how to use them. Also
how to upload from our
phones and computers
instantly.Tumblr
Phones/Dropbox To upload our videos and
pictures throughout the
filming to the opening
sequence.
Quick and easy to upload
from phones to the
website/computer. We
found this helpful if we
didn’t have the camera to
hand and found good
spots to film in/ we used
them for our location
shots.
If we had videos to upload
it took a considerable
amount of time to upload,
this may be because of
the phone. This is why we
only used our phones little
compared to the camera
that we linked up to the
computer which was fast.
We learnt that the
convergence of the phone
is very advanced. We
could use the phone to
take pictures and instantly
upload it onto our blogs
(BLOGGER) and the
website. Also to the social
networking sites.