Evaluation question 6

Evaluation question 6

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  Evaluation 6) Whathave you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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  • Throughout theprocess of creating my media product I learnt a lot of things. Some of these things were just expanding on knowledge that I already had, and some things I had to learn from the ground up to a level that was appropriate for me to then say I can use it in the production of my product. • In this PowerPoint I will be going through things that I have learnt, whether or not I knew a bit about the product beforehand.
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  Apple iMac andit’s peripherals • Throughout most of the process of creating our product, we were limited to the use of Apple iMacs. I was very unfamiliar with iMacs at first and required a fair bit of assistance to figure out what I was doing. Everything felt backwards to me since I was so used to a Windows PC. • However, after a few weeks of using the Macs and completing some tasks I began to get the hang of it. I figured out where things were and was able to work independently on the Mac computers. • Now that I am finishing my project I am more confident than ever with a Mac but would still prefer to use a Windows PC for tasks outside of photo-editing.
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  LUMIX 12X AVCHDLite HD camera • When it came down to taking my shots for my photo-shoot, I wanted to use the best camera I had access to. In this case the camera was the LUMIX 12X AVCHD Lite HD camera. The camera was more advanced than any I had used before and was capable of much more than I first anticipated. • When I started taking shots I was doing the simple ‘take a high quality shot with flash on’ shot. However, this was upsetting my models as the flash was going into their eyes. I had to turn it off before I could take anymore shots. • It took some intense playing around with the seemingly never- ending menus for me to figure out how to turn the flash off. This is also when I found out about other techniques this camera could utilise such as face recognition and burst shooting. All of these techniques helped to ensure that my photo-shoot was the best it could possibly be.
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  Samsung Galaxy S3 •The Samsung Galaxy S3, otherwise known as my phone, played a vital role in getting my work done. It also performed tasks I would have never thought possibly for a smartphone. • Utilising this phones strengths I was able to send emails with my work attached so I could do it from home, I was able to keep myself on track with a calendar and built in reminders, I was able to write parts of my work and finish them off in the next lesson, at home or at the next available opportunity and many more. • Of course I was able to do the thing I knew how to before such as surf the web and text people to receive impressions on my product.
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  The internet andall the websites inside of it • When learning to use the iMacs, I had to make use of a new internet browser which was laid out differently and slightly slower than what I was used to. Safari achieved everything I expected it to, but the tasks I had to achieve were completed in a much more convoluted manner due to the restrictions of this software. • Whilst on Safari I was introduced to three websites, Wordpress, Slideshare and Prezi, with each of them having their own uses. • Wordpress was the website that contained my portfolio of work for this AS Media coursework. It was essentially a blog that I updated as I went on, adding in new work as and when it was created. This site also allowed me to comment on other peoples blogs and for me to comment on my blog, I was also able to share blog posts across social networking sites. • Slideshare was the website which allowed me to upload PowerPoints and word documents. When these documents were on the website in question I could copy and paste a link into a wordpress post which would then enbed the powerpoint or word document into the wordpress post and allow viewers to interact with the document partially. • Prezi allows me to create documents using an online ‘kit’ and add text, autoshapes and images at my own will and then provide a link between these in an animated format. I could also follow pre- existing animations and just fill in the gaps. The software was very user friendly.