Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Websites/Blog






Before I began doing AS media, I had never used a blog, an
Apple Mac or any film editing software (such as Final Cut Pro or iMovie)
including sounds, text etc so when I began I had pretty much no idea what to
do. The first form I used was my blog and originally quite overwhelmed. My
first impression of blogger.com was daunting as it was all too new for me.
However, once I got started and added a phew things to my blog, I found it
quite easy and straight forward. One of my favourite aspects of this site was that
it has a very modern essence. By this I believe that there is a sense of
community and togetherness, where anyone and everyone can share information and
interests. 









Furthermore, in a way, it is relevant to the industry. I
think this because technological convergence is continuing to progress allowing
more & more pieces of information to be quickly and easily published across
the internet. This brings something new to the table as it can constantly be
changed and updated to suit the continuous daily change, unlike books for
example. To begin with, I mainly used the blogger text and images. After this,
I progressed and learnt how to put YouTube videos onto my blog, pasting the
HTML code into the HTML section of the blog and converting it into a video in
my blog. After this, I began to experiment with different websites to add
diversity and to strengthen my blog, rather than just simply using plain text
and images directly off the blogger.com site. I was constantly learning and
finding out about interesting new sites to use for my blog work, such as:
slideshare.net, prezi.com, scribd.com, dafont.com etc. 








The sites I believe I have used most often on my blog during
the production of my thriller opening are SlideShare and Prezi. In my opinion,
Prezi is a highly developed, intricate and diverse form if a slides how/power
point. Prezi allows it's users to be quite free and creative with their
presentation, using a combination of text, images and videos on the same or
different path (ways of viewing them). Like the first time I use most sites, I
was quite much, especially at this sure because if how advanced an in
detail it is. However, within a few minutes I became comfortable with the site.
Now, I find prezi.com easy and highly effective to work with. It is also makes
the view more entertaining and pleasing for those who watch it as it has more
depth than a simple slideshow on PowerPoint for example. By depth, I mean Prezi
allows individuals making a slide to pretty much add layers to it, e.g. if there's
an uploaded picture, Prezi makes it possible to zoom in to any aspect of the
image and add another image, a video or text, then zoom right out either back
to the image, or more interestingly to another image, video or text. I also
used the site slideshare.net quite a lot. This site allowed me to upload and
embed PowerPoint presentations and Word documents to my blog, showing the use
of multimedia. For example, in only one post I could upload a PowerPoint
presentation, Prezi, Word document along with a few images and additional blog
text to explain in depth one Blogpost. The combination of all of the above
together strengthens the aspect of my multimedia usage. 







Although, for the evaluation of the project I began to
experiment further with websites to challenge myself and enhance my knowledge
for different software's. It was at this point when I began to use other
websites like photopeach.com, beeclip.com, dafont.com, scribd.com and
screenr.com. When I discovered photopeach.com I was quite relieved, as this
site allowed me to make a video then edit it by adding text and images. Pretty
much a mini, more basic and simple version of the editing programmes I used to
edit my opening. Similar to Prezi, beeclip.com and scribd.com is like an
developed version of PowerPoint, but different in some ways. This site shows
yet another way of showing a slide on my blog and is a diverse, useful
presenting technique. Dafont.com was used to research and investigate fonts to
use for my production name. This is an easy website to use, probably the least
daunting of all that I have tried in this process. It simple to get around
and find what you think is necessary or looking for. On this site, it is
possible to even find things that are different to what you are looking for,
but still could come in useful as well as expand and develop ideas making them
more creative as there is a variety of styles and fonts. Last but not least
there's screenr.com. Personally I believe this is an amazing site with
outstanding functions and abilities. What Screenr does is allow you to record
all of or a section of the screen, along with a voice over. It is good to show
and explain what you're doing and/or how to do something.



 

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?