Evaluation
- 1. The advantages of media technologies; There are many advantages of the use of modern technologies. Firstly, the fact that most of them allow a fast and efficient way of being able to plan/research and also to create products is a positive. This is because no one likes to be taking ages about making something when it can be done at a much faster pace, therefore leaving time for the actual making and evaluation of the products which is essential to the whole package. Another advantage is that things can be changed quite quickly on the technologies if ever a mistake was made and/or needed to be changed for whatever reason. This is for example on Photoshop, if a line was drawn by mistake when creating a digipack, then there is an “undo” button in which erases whatever you last did. This is very good as it takes no time at all to remove and this saves time also when working to a tight schedule.
- 2. The disadvantages of media technologies; There are many disadvantages of media technologies. Firstly as the ones in which I have used are all fairly modern creation, this means they are liable to breaking down easily/crashing. This means that at any time of creating something on Final cut or Photoshop for example, if I haven't saved the work then this could mean it all could be lost as the computer could shut the programmes down due to them not functioning properly. Furthermore, another disadvantage is that as they are fairly modern as stated above, this meant I wasn't that up-to-date with the skills required to work the programmes efficiently. This was because before the A level stage I wasn't that sure how to use any of them that well, but as I more or less had to use them in order to be able to do all of my coursework, this enabled me to have to work out how to use it all properly. I also had to seek help from other who knew how to work them in which told me the best way to go about doing certain things on the programmes.
- 3. Did they prove challenging? In many ways yes they did as I wasn't 100% how to work the technologies and this took quite a bit of time till I was familiar with the programmes and knew how to use them fluently. This therefore took time off of the research, planning and production stages as I was working out how to use them all correctly.
- 4. What they allowed me to achieve; Personally they allowed me to gain a lot more skills in the media department on how to use certain programmes for whatever reason I may need to use them in the future. Also gained myself a lot of patience and determination. This is because without these two things you wont succeed as you have no direction or plan to work out what is going to happen next and what/where you wanting to go. I have developed considerably from last year for AS level as I know a lot more about the technologies in its self, and have more confidence in what I can do and what can be done on these machines.