2. During the production of our film, we used many new, and different
technologies which gave us and familiarised us with key skills in the media
field, and ones that we could use in the future.
Some of the new technologies we used:
•Scribd •High Tech Cameras
•Blogger •Tri – Pod
•YouTube •Mac book
•Microsoft Office
•Slide Share
3. The High Definition cameras we became
familiar with are one of the most, if not the
most important piece of technology that is
associated with media projects nowadays.
During our preliminary, I made sure the
battery for the camera was fully charged in
order to allow us to film, within the least
amount of time so that not time was wasted
on our part. I was assigned the role of the
cameraman in my production group as well
which meant that I had to be the most
familiar with the camera as I would be the one
involved with it the most. The camera we used
was top of the range which meant that the
picture quality recorded was HD (1080p), the
best and highest quality of film available at
this moment in time.
4. The tripod was a very important piece of
technology we used. Although the tripod may
not be seen as technological as other things,
it is just as important as the camera is to
media production groups. The tripod enables
the cameramen to hold the camera in a stable
position, stopping the camera from being
dropped and damaged, preventing thousands
of pounds worth of damage. Before this
occasion, I had never used a tripod before,
which meant that I had to get used to it, and
become familiar with the skills needed to
work the tripod properly. I found this rather
difficult, however I was able to eventually
learn the ways in working a tripod, and I was
able to secure and transport the camera safely
with the use of the tripod.
5. Although I was very familiar with this sort of
technology, and use a Laptop almost everyday, I
had never used a Mac Book before. This meant
that, initially, I found it rather difficult when it
came to working on the Mac Book, after a couple
of weeks, I eventually became fluent in the use
of a Mac Book, and was able to use it effectively.
I found that although the Mac Book was much
harder to use, it was much more suited to the
needs of media production groups, and had a lot
of software already installed on the hard drive
that would be extremely useful to media
production groups in the production of their
media products.
6. Scribd was a vital piece of
technology we used to help import
our work onto our group and
private blogs. Scribd allowed us to
import many files that were
composed on our Pc/Mac Book,
and embed them onto our blog
page with the use of an embed
code.
However, we encountered some problems with the use of Scribd. We found
that, sometimes, when uploading a file onto Scribd, it would alter the file, and
make it invalid. In this case, I uploaded a word file onto Scribd, and found that
it ended up reshuffling and deleting some of the words contained in that
particular document. After a while of trying to fix this error, I found that by
saving the document as a ‘PDF’ file, and re-uploading it onto Scribd, all the
errors were eliminated and it had been uploaded perfectly.
7. Slide Share was an extremely useful piece of
technology for me. It enabled me to upload the work
I did on Microsoft PowerPoint onto my group blog,
and allowed me to have an alternative way of
uploading my work, rather than using the usual
Scribd. One of the pieces of work we used to upload
with Slide Share was the equipment list as it enabled
us to give the blog viewer a clear method of analysing
our work.
8. Blogger, I think, was probably the most important
piece of technology we used. It allowed us to have an
interactive online platform, on which we could
upload our work and meant that there was much less
paperwork involved, as you would get with other
types of coursework. This was the first time I had
used blogger, however I got used to it very quickly
and found it very easy to use.
Being proficient in the use of Blogger, applied to me more than any other
member of my production team as I was in charge of maintaining the group
blog, which meant I had to update, clean and continuously monitor the blog,
and without being familiar with Blogger it would have meant that I wouldn't
not have been able to do this as well as I could have.
9. YouTube was the main tool we used to
upload the video of our final
production. There were many reasons
why we chose YouTube. Firstly, it is
known worldwide, therefore there is a
higher chance of us getting a wider
range of viewers on YouTube compared
to any other site.
Secondly, watching videos on YouTube is fast, easy and extremely reliable.
This meant that more people could watch our production video without any
hassle and hardly having to wait for the video to buffer. One thing that we
came across was that the uploading time for a video was rather long, so this
took us a while to get done. After that however, everything else was fine.
10. Microsoft office was used intensively
throughout our production. Whether it was
Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint,
Microsoft Office allowed us to get our work
done in a very reasonable amount of time and
allowed us to lay our work out in a appropriate
way so it could be read easily.
