Advantages & Disadvantages of the Technologies Media A Level Presentation

1. Charlotte Greaves

2. *From the experience of using Blogger at AS level
last year, It gave me an advantage of having a good
knowledge of how to navigate and use it.
*At times through my project, Blogger has been a
disadvantage for me as sometimes it would not
allow me to upload my images to my blog posts.
*Another disadvantage for Blogger, is that it only
allows you to upload a certain (small) amount of
video to the blog itself. This is where YouTube and
Vimeo came extremely helpful to me, as most of
my footage and videos were large files.

3. *Survey Monkey was a huge advantage for me in
terms of my project. It was extremely useful,
allowing me to collect data from the general
public about my products and how successful
they were in other people’s opinions. This
helped me to evaluate my products myself and
give me any useful feedback that could
potentially assist me in refining my project and
making any changes that I needed to.

5. *Adobe Premiere Pro was an extremely useful as it
was the editing software I used to create my music
video itself, without the software, I wouldn’t have
been able to create a high quality piece of work
using an advanced editing software with a variety
of effects etc.
*A disadvantage of Adobe Premiere Pro was the fact
that it was very time consuming. The editing
became quite tedious and frustrating as it was a
long timescale and the amount of times but I
persevered.
*It allowed my final product to look as professional
as it could be.
*It was very instinctive and straight forward to use,
however there was a level of complexity to it, It
had a number of different effects, such as the filter
that allow a different colour layered over the
photograph.

6. *I used Prezi to create various presentations
throughout my project. It was useful to
brainstorm ideas and it was also a good way to
present my research and journey.
*One downfall about Prezi, is that it is only
accessible online. This means that I can only
use it when there is internet connection,
limiting my opportunities to access it at times.

7. *After using a different camera for my previous project, I
wanted to use my own camera instead of a school one, to
get a better quality image. My Nikon 1 camera had a
much better image quality, lacking the graininess of the
previous camera it was easy use and it had a generally
good build quality.
*It was hand held and small, which made it much easier to
carry around. Plus the shot was much steadier and it fit
properly onto the tri-pod, guaranteeing a selection of
stable shots.

9. *Photoshop was another really challenging and
complex software that I used within my
project. It allowed me to create my print
products that were similar to my video, using
the same fonts and effects etc.
*It allowed me to create my print products so
that they were very similar. As the same
effects were on the software, this was
extremely easy as I could just import my image
into Photoshop and use the same effects
layered onto it.

10. *Vimeo was something that was very helpful for
uploading any videos I created during mu
project, including drafts, footage and my final
cut.
*However, one major downfall for Vimeo, was
that it only allowed me to upload a certain
amount of footage per week (500MB).This
limited me a lot an so therefore I used a
combination of Vimeo and YouTube, as
YouTube didn’t limit me in terms of data
allowance.