What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Mine
- 1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product
- 2. Research= Planning= Production= Software These are the different software programmes I used in the process of constructing my product: • Photoshop • Microsoft Word • Powerpoint • Publisher • Slideshare • Blogger • Survey Monkey • Da Font • Google Images • Paint • Blackboard • Youtube • Facebook
- 3. Photoshop Photoshop was one of the main software programmes I used in creating my product as it was what I actually made my magazine in. I could have used a different programme (e.g. Microsoft Publisher) but Photoshop was the best for what I wanted to do. I hadn’t used Photoshop before making my media product so that was a slight set back as I had to learn what all the tools did but I picked it up quite quickly. For example, I ‘cut out’ an image of the people I featured on the front of my magazine, and I didn’t know how to do that before. The tool was called the Magnetic Lasso Tool.
- 4. Blogger Before creating my media product I had never made/used a blog before. I thought it was good because it shows what work you’ve done and is a good way of displaying it. Also it’s easy to get comments/feedback on your work. The only bad thing about using a blog was that the particular site we used didn’t work on my computer at home, which meant I struggled to keep uploading posts if I hadn’t managed to do so at college. But other than that I found it quite useful, but isn’t vital in the creation of my media product.
- 5. Slide Share • I hadn’t used Slide Share before creating my media product which meant that I had to learn how to copy the link into my blog. It was a good site to use as my blog would have been extremely boring if it was all written, so by having powerpoints it made the blog look more professional. However, like Blogger, Slide Share didn’t work on my computer at home and I sometimes found it very slow at college too which meant that I often ended up having to upload lots of presentations at once, which meant that some of my planning is in the wrong place on my blog. From Slide Share I learnt how to upload PowerPoint Presentations.
- 6. Research= Planning= Production= Hardware These are the different software products I used in the process of constructing my product: • Camera • Computer • Memory Stick • Memory Card Readers • Mobile Phone
- 7. Camera To create my media product I took pictures of my friends pretending to be pop music artists. I couldn’t have made my media product with out a camera as the magazine wouldn’t have had any pictures, meaning it wouldn’t really be a magazine. The only problem I had with the camera (which I had used before) was that in some photographs the images looked blurred. It was difficult to fully get used to all the settings but the images came out looking good. I did have a few problems with getting models to take photo’s of as a few of my friends were unwilling to have their photo’s taken, which meant I struggled to capture a male artist but I succeeded in the end.
- 8. Computer It would have been very difficult to make my media product without the use of a computer. It was used in the planning, research and production stages of my magazine so it was vital. I used it to go on Photoshop to create my media product, it was used to go onto Youtube, Facebook, Survey Monkey, etc, to find out research and I used things like Microsoft word and PowerPoint in the planning stages. The use of a computer benefited me greatly because, for example, if I hadn’t been able to use survey monkey, I would have had to go out and find people to ask questions, whilst with survey monkey I was able to send the link to all my friends and get them to answer it quickly. The use of computers was very time saving. There are a few limitations of using a computer as sometimes they are slow and wont work properly but other than that computers were an extremely important part of creating my media product.
- 9. Memory Stick Because of the computers and soft ware I used in creating my media product I needed a memory stick to hold my work as the files (Photoshop especially) became too big to store on the computer. This means that memory sticks were extremely important in the creation of my media product, although there would be a way to get around not using them. Memory sticks are very useful as they store much more than computers. They do have problems though as if you forget your memory stick, you haven't got your work for the day. Also they are prone to corrupting files which means you can quite easily lose all your work.