question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 6

During our lessons at college and at home, in order to be able to create and access my blog, I used computers and laptops. I also used them in order to be able to research, into the pop genre, create and edit my music magazine, and up load my work onto my blog and use several technologies such as Prezi and survey monkey.

I found the computers that I used reliable and trust worthy, as I did not loose any of my work that I had saved and they didnt freeze or break down while I was using them.

I am use-to using computers and laptops, so I was able to use them easily and effectively in order to be able to complete my coursework. For example I know the short cuts on a computer such as control c for copy and control v for paste. This helped me to complete my work quickly.

COMPUTERS AND LAPTOPS

In order to be able to complete my music magazine I needed to plan and take my own images. So that I could do this I used a Canon SLR camera which I borrowed form the media department at college, to take my fist set of images. I found this camera easy to use and operate. I found it simple to change the zoom and other features such as flash on the camera.

This camera gave me very good results as the resolution of the final image was very clear and crisp, this helped to make my magazines images look very professional.

The zoom setting on the camera allowed me to quickly and effectively zoom in and out on the model during the photo-shoot, to be able to get the camera angle and photo shot that I wanted, whether it was a mid or long shot.

The flash setting allowed me to get a brighter picture of the model, this was very useful as it gave me a brighter and clearer picture of the model as the setting of the image was quite dull. With a white background. This feature allowed me to take and capture better and higher quality images.

CAMERA NUMBER 1

For my second set of images I used the camera that I own at home which is a Sony - Cyber-shot Exmore R. This camera was also very easy and simple to use, changing the resolution of the picture, flash on/off and the zoom.

The flash on the camera was not as efficient as the SLR I used for the first set of images, as the flash was too bright and made the model look pale and washed out, the flash also took a long time to go off and the photo taking process because of this took longer, this was therefore not a feature that I used for the second set of images.

The zoom however was quick and efficient as this allowed me to get the shot type of the model that I wanted for my magazines images.

The resolution changer was easy and efficient to use as this allowed me to take higher quality images for my magazine, the overall image was not as higher quality as the SLR but the images still looked professional.

Overall , out of the two cameras I would choose the SLR camera, as the flash is a better quality and the over all efficiency of the camera is quicker.

CAMERA NUMBER 2

When I first got told that I was to be using Photoshop to create and design my music magazine I was not so confident and very unsure of the idea.

At first I found the software very confusing and complicated to use, as I did not know how to navigate around the page and what any of the symbols for the editing tools stood for.

However over the past couple of months I have learnt how to effectively crop and cut images, replace backgrounds, add text, add shapes such as squares and rectangles to the layout, edit images to make them brighter, alter the contrast, colour items of clothing, how to liquefy images so that the edges of example the hair of the model does not look square or oddly shaped and air brush a models skin so it looks flawless, attractive and appealing to the target audience of my music magazine. I also learnt how to soften or harden the outline of an image or shape.

Photoshop took a lot of experimenting to be able to get to grips with the software, what tools stand for and how to crop and edit an image effectively so that they end product looks professional. But overall I managed to get a professional looking product by using it.

PHOTOSHOP

For one of the research tasks, I needed to create and get people to fill out a questionnaire on music magazines. So that I did not have to print out lots of questionnaires and ask people personally to fill out the questionnaire, I created a questionnaire on Survey Monkey. This website allowed me to create a simple and efficient questionnaire on music magazines, which I could then share electronically via Facebook and Twitter.

I found this website very easy and quick to use. It allowed me to create open and closed questions for my questionnaire.

It then gathered and displayed all of the answers for you, onto graphs to make it easier for you to read and understand.

For me Survey Monkey worked really well and gave me the outcome that I needed for research into music magazines.

SURVEY MONKEY

When I first logged into Prezi and began to experiment with the website, I thought that it was a very complex and complicated website to use. But after about 20 minutes of experimenting with it, I found out that it was really simple and easy to use!

Prezi is a really good and useful website as it has loads of different templates for you to use and customise to make your own. Adding text, extra frames and images is all very easy, most of the time its a click and drag process.

I also found the website very reliable and trustworthy as you can save your work online and go back and edit it at any time you wish as long as you log into your personal account. Prezi also gives you the option to keep your Prezi private or share your Prezi using a URL code linked to your Prezi, this is useful when you want to share and embed your Prezi for example on your blog!

I have used Prezi for several different tasks in my course work as I feel it is an exciting and interesting way to present your work .

PREZI

PowerPoint is a very similar software to Prezi except it is not online. I have been using PowerPoint all through my previous school years, so therefore I knew how to quickly and effectively produce my work using it.

PowerPoint has some different features to Prezi for example each new page is known as a slide instead of a frame on Prezi. On power point you can add animations to your slides, text and images.

Similar to Prezi you can also change the colour, font, text size and image size. This is all very simple and easy.

For different task through out my blog I have used PowerPoint as I feel that it is an exciting and unique was to present your work, especially when you upload it onto your blog using slide share.

POWERPOINT

Go animate is an online technology that you sign up to, which allows you to create your own animations. It allows you to add backgrounds, characters, voices and text. This technology allows you to present your work in an exciting and interesting way.

I used go animate for a few of tasks in my course work, this allowed me to work and demonstrate that I can work with different technologies.

I found go animate easy to use first time round, as all of the features are basic and simple to use but allows you to produce amazing results as a final product.

Adding the conversation of the characters was very simple and easy but also frustrating as you could only have a maximum of 140 characters per scene of the animation, this meant that if you had a character talking a lot in your animation you had to split the text over several scenes.

Another problem I found with go animate was that unless you wanted to go premium with the website and pay to be a member, you could not create animations longer that 2 minutes, meaning that for one of my evaluation questions I have three parts, as my overall animation lasted longer than 2 minutes.

Overall I found go animate useful to use and I found it fun and interesting to create my own animations. However they can get very annoying to play and listen to as the accents of the characters are very robotic. But as a technology that I used I found that it was mediocre.

GO ANIMATE!

Blogger is a website which is part of Google. This is the website I used to create my own media course work blog which I have been able to successfully upload all of my course work onto. I have found this very easy to use such as adding pages, diary entries, google docs, embedding Prezis, videos, go animates, links and images onto.

This has been a very useful piece of technology for me as this is the base to all of my coursework for my music magazine.

I have had no trouble with blogger at all and I feel that it is a very reliable and trust worthy piece of technology.

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