Question 6

Question 6

• 1.
  What have youlearnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• 2.
  Software The main softwareused to construct the radio broadcast was Audacity. While using this software, I learnt how to multi-track as well as other techniques such as cropping and cutting to create the broadcast. We could also rename the tracks, this made it easier to recognise what tracks was which. Therefore made it easier for me to rearrange the order of the tracks and quickly decide which tracks were needed. So they could be edited or deleted. Also, we kept the original Audacity file so we could quickly go back and make necessary changes instead of starting from scratch. •Prezi – I used this online software to create a presentation to answer one of the evaluation questions. •Free mind – This piece of software allowed me to create mindmaps to show the different ideas and how they link with each other. In this case I used this to answer the first question, comparing the codes and conventions of a local radio station to our own broadcast. •Creative Commons (freemusicarchive.org and freesound.org) – These websites allowed us to download different sound clips for free which then we could use in our broadcast.
• 3.
  Group Wiki PersonalBlog While constructing the product, I was constantly updating my personal blog as well as the group wiki. Personal Blog – The personal blog was used to post all my completed work and also provide evidence of the any changes in the planning made to the main task. Although my blog is personal, the group have a few similar posts such as the script or work planner as we all worked on it as a group. Group Wiki – The whole group could have access to the wiki site. On the website we could post any ideas to each other as well as share work that others could use. Before starting the main task, a task table was created to which showed the different jobs needed to be completed by a certain due date. This way each member would contribute and get the task done bit by bit.
• 4.
  Hardware In order to capture our work and show our progress we needed a decent camera. Although I already know how to use a camera, we learnt a few ways to make our pictures and video captures more effective. For example the different angles and lightings. Since the video was partly sound, it was important that we had a good sound quality so that the people could easily understand what is being said we used a Rode microphone. We also used a portable device to recorded our outside broadcast so we used a handy voice recorder because it was more convenient rather than using the rode microphone and the camera. I think using a personal computer at home was much easier to use and I was able to have more software to help me to complete tasks rather than using school computers which were limited.