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With the world moving towards Web 2.0 I had to
get used to using different technologies in order to create my media
productions. Although the school did have the technologies I needed to create
my productions, I did encounter problems, these included not being able to
upload certain images onto the my blog or view videos for my research due to
the restrictions on the school software, which meant I had to carry out some
work from home. However I was unable to do all my work from home down to the
fact I didn’t have some of the software I needed to complete the tasks, for
example photoshop and iMovie, which meant that our editing was restricted to
just my time in school, although this didn’t cause to much of an issue as we
planned relatively well and allowed time for our work to be edited. One problem
I did encounter at home and at school was the inability to place a powerpoint
presentation on Blogger. This became an issue as I intended to carry out my
evaluation as a powerpoint with pieces of video and audio to help present what I
was trying to show. This caused me many difficulties and as a result I have
typed up my evaluation. Blogger was fairly easy to get used to as I had used it
last year and it is a case of just inputting the information you are looking to
share. However a more problematic programme was Photoshop. I found this hard to
get used to and spent a lot longer that what I had planned on trying to create
my digipack, this also became increasingly frustrating as I wanted to make it
look better than how it came out but this was down to the fact I really
struggled to work out how to use the software and to get it to do what I wanted.
Another piece of technology I had to get used to with the group was Prezi. This
is an online presentation website in which you can create a free account and
create a presentation, we used this to create our presentation on similar
artists to our target artist. This was fairly simple to use once we had got
used to it, as we had to follow paths. One piece of technology that Alex and
Brad had to get used to more so than me was the lights in the recording studio.
This was because I was in the video was focusing on what to do in the shots. However
we did have to consider the lighting on each shot, something that sounds fairly
simple but once you are filming and trying to make the lighting just right it
can be a bit tricky to sort out. Another piece of technology I had to get used
to was Wix.com this is a website that enable people to create their own
website. This was difficult to understand at first because I hadn’t really
created anything similar to this before so it took be a bit of time to get used
to all the different ways in which you would edit the page. Once I had got an
understanding on what to do it made it much easier to navigate the site and
create my website. Overall I feel the use of technologies has been vital in the
construction of my products and without these technologies I feel I would of found
it a lot harder to create these productions.
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