1. Evaluation Question 4 - How did
you use media technologies in
the construction and research,
planning and evaluation stages?
2.
3. Some of these technologies just
assisted me with the steps in the
project such as research and
planning. Websites such as
google, wikipedia, youtube and
surveymonkey made pre-
production a lot easier than if I
didn't have access to these sites.
However, many of these
technologies were crucial to the
task, and the project would have
been difficult to complete without
them. If I didn’t have access to
some of these websites, my
research would rely heavily on
books, which are useful but much
less practical as this would include
travelling to a library. Without
surveymonkey, I would’ve had to
produce surveys and distribute
them by hand which again, would
have been time consuming and
probably generated less of a
response rate.
4. Even small every day
devices such as
mobile phones made
the production
process
easier, allowing
members of our group
to keep in contact
as well as cast
members for our
products. We also
used mobile phones
to capture
interviews that we
conducted in our
research and
planning stages.
5. SD cards are a fairly
SD cards are new
another example of technology, which
technology that was makes me thankful
crucial to our for the increasing
project, SD cards development in
meant that our digital technology
post-production as this in particular
could take place at allowed us to be
home and at more creative with
college as the card our editing skills. It
could be inserted is a mix of all these
into any computer technologies which
to continue the made our products
editing process. possible.
6. Blogger was a very useful Using a blog meant that my
tool in my project. I used work was more accessible. I
blogger throughout the was able to edit posts and
whole project to document submit work wherever I had
ideas and the development internet access, I could even
of the project. I used a blog use my mobile phone to
in the same way in my AS access my blog which meant
coursework, so I generally that I had unlimited access
knew the ways in which a to my blog as I could view it
blog worked and that almost anywhere. This is a
allowed me to understand huge technological
what I was doing a lot advantage that I valued
quicker. greatly.
7. Instead of using one of the cameras provided by college, we
decided to use our own equipment that a member of our
group had. This gave us slightly more freedom as there was
only a limited amount of cameras for students to use at
college which meant organising filming days around camera
availability. This was useful as some of our filming took place
at night. Another advantage of using our own equipment
meant that we had more of an idea how to use it due to
experience, this meant that we were not going through a
learning process at the same time.
As well as using our own filming equipment,
we used our own editing software, Sony
Vegas. This had a great advantage as it
meant we could work on our own PC instead
of using Final Cut which is only available on
Macs. This allowed us to spend time out of
college editing our video.
9. Overall, looking back on my project I have realised how
easy it is to take digital technology for granted as
technology is something that my generation spend a lot
of time using. Social network websites and other areas
of the internet have become such an accepted part of
every day life that it is sometimes hard to look at the
development of technology in perspective because I
have grown up surrounded by it. However, if I had not
had access to the different types of technology that I
had in the process of this project would have been very
difficult and somewhat less innovative and creative.
