Media question

Technology over the years has become increasingly important to people in their everyday lives. This is because they rely on technology and it helps them get on with everyday life.

How does technology impact our lives?

Blogger has been a massive resource which we have used in our Media Studies. It has been mainly used to store data from our planning and research resources and can be used as data to make decisions for our Main Tasks both the Film and the Album Advert.

Whilst Using Blogger we did receive some problems as it was sometimes unreliable and it lead to sometimes losing work which had been done previously. Sometimes the website could crash so we made sure when we did any type of work we always pressed save to back up the work and prevent disappointment.

The ability to screenshot the work which had been done previously was important. This is because it can help me with giving examples of work i have seen which helps my research, also it can help me demonstrate surveys and market research which has been done to benefit my knowledge to make my Media pieces the best that they can possibly be.

Print Screens

YouTube is used throughout my course on Blogger especially on the research tasks. YouTube is helpful for my research because of some of the videos i have used to analyse and used some of the techniques in my music video main task. Also YouTube has been used for some of my tasks which i have uploaded through YouTube. YouTube is good because it is free internet technology which is a good way to share media through and also learn from other music videos.

I sometimes experienced problems through YouTube, sometimes the links would not embed into Blogger effectively however that may have been a problem with the computer or even with Blogger so apart from that YouTube was extremely effective.

Google was extremely important in all aspects of research, planning and evaluation they were used in our research to back up certain points and make viewing of our blogs look more interesting.

However we did receive a few problems, this was mainly because some of the images were small and this meant that when enlarged it would be extremely pixelated and therefore we could not use certain images.

Although this was extremely rare and this meant that we could rely on Google images to provide us with sources of information which proved reliable and rarely was an issue.

Planning was an extremely important part of our blog. This is where i would record all of my data and information which we gathered which allowed me to determine and refer to examples of our target audience in our research to target the audience.

Technology Used in Planning

Wikipedia was good because it gives an in depth view of someone who has good knowledge, it offers a wide range of information from numerous different sources.

It was also very good because information was extremely easily accessible and always reliable if looking in the right places.

This source of information was very good and this was used throughout the course. It was used mainly because finding information from people from other sites was jumbled and sometimes hard to understand.

For example we used Wikipedia for some of our

research

AZ Lyrics helped us analyse the song which we used for our planning of the Music video. We annotated lyrics and could get ideas which lead to decisions which were made by the group. Some of the lyrics lead to us making direct connections to scenes and also lead to us establishing conventions which matched the lyrics which was good when we were planning.

AZ Lyrics

Phones were extremely important for our media and our planning. The most important part of the planning was the team meetings which helped us establish some conventions, mise en scene, settings and also certain shots which were important to our final product and made it what it was today.

Apple Iphone

Pie Chart Creator

The pie chart creator was a very good piece of technology and it was used successfully in all aspects of the planning and it was also good to explain the ways in which the audiences reacted to our questions and also the market research aspect of the band.However the software did pose one minor problem and this was because the software would not let the image of the pie chart to be directly put into blogger and this would lead to a long winded method of having to print screen the image and this was the minor problem with the software.

Final Product Technology

Computers Used

I have used different computers to do different things for my Media project, Mac computers were good for the editing side of the project. This is because they had programme's like final cut and Photoshop which could be used better on a more creative Mac computer. Where as windows computers are predominantly used for the paperwork side of the project and for typing up ideas and plans for our project.

Final cut was one of the most useful tools and this program was important because without this software it would be impossible for us to put together the clips and also put the special effects over the top of the videos which we have recorded. However Final cut caused my group some problems at times, this is due to the slow speed at which the effects render over the top of video clips. In other words the program was sometimes slow and this reflected in the amount of time it took us to complete our video. To speed up the process of the video it would be important for us to clear memory off the computer therefore data may have loaded quicker.

Final Cut

Photo shop is a piece of software which was used for our digipaks and album adverts which was part of the main tasks. This was a good piece of software because it allows us to edit our digipak and album advert successfully and helps us to professionally use an editing programme.

The problem was with Photoshop was that if you have never used the programme before it means that you have to make yourself known to the software which is extremely difficult to use and if you do not know the software or do not know someone who does then it could be near impossible to function all of the features without assistance.

Photoshop

Evaluation Technology

Movie maker was the best programme to use to do our evaluation tasks which incorporated images and also voiceovers. This software was easy to understand and a lot of people know how to function it, this means that doing work is not problematic in terms of technological knowledge.

The problems with movie maker however are that the programme contains lots of pictures and also voice overs and these have to be transferred between computers when doing work at home and then at school. This poses a difficulty because sometimes there is some files missing so you cannot edit the Evaluation questions.

Movie Maker

Prezi is a software which helps to develop peoples presentation skills when you are using technology. Prezi is good because it allows you to do an entertaining presentation which allows you to insert video clips and also pictures with a mixture of text sometimes there is problems with the software due to it crashing because of the large file size.

Another positive of Prezi is that it is extremely easy to embed the final product from the evaluation question into the blog.

Prezi