Question 6 of my AS Media Studies Questions

1. AS Media Studies Evaluation
Questions
Q6 what have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. What hardware did I use?
What is Hardware?
Hardware tangible tools I
used.
Camera I used was a Nikon
D3100. This also taught me
good photo taking taking
techniques like using
appropriate lighting, framing
and focus it also helped show
me how to direct the models to
take good photos.
Computer I used was an iMac with a
speed of 2GHz. I found it very
difficult to get used to the Apple
Mac keyboard, however I am now
very comfortable using one.
Memory storage when I used
the camera the photos were
stored on a SD card and then
transferred onto the school
computer using an SD card
reader this which connected
through USB

3. More Hardware
All these pieces of
equipment were used to help
me enhance the quality of
my pictures. I used the strobe lights to light
the white backdrop to allow
me to remove the background
easier. The lights with the
softboxes were used to light
the subjects. The horseshoe
flash trigger sent a red signal
out to set off the lights to all
flash at the same time
Hemisphere 300
Strobe
White backdrop
Softbox
Horseshoe slash
trigger

4. What software did I use?
What is software?
The programs used by the
computer.
Operating system
The operating system I used
was the built in system OS X
Yosemite by Apple . I found
it very difficult to adjust
however the system is much
easier to use and allow to
have more freedom than
Microsoft.
I found it difficult to use
due to the special keys,
the command button and
the alt key as well

5. Photoshop
I found it difficult to
remember I have to
keep selecting the tool
before I click on things,
this caused me to make
many mistakes
The tools I became the most
acquainted with were the lasso
tool, the object select and the
text box.
I also struggled with
the layer system on
the right hand side.
This made my
projected less acurate
as I would adjust my
layers and then move
it by accident thinking
I had selected a
different layer

6. Indesign & PowerPoint
Indesign works in
a similar way to
photoshop
regarding the
selecting tools
The only thing that was
a little frustrating about
using indesign is that I
had to remove the
white background from
my images in
photoshop
I used PowerPoint to
document most of my
evaluation. I am very
familiar with this
software.

7. BrowsersI used the browsers
to access some very
important websites
which allowed me
to complete and
share my work.
WordPress
I used word press to
create a blog which I
put all of my years
work on. Right from
the preliminary task
to my evaluation.
SlideShare
I used SlideShare to
put my PowerPoint
presentations on my
blog. I had never used
this website before AS
media studies
Prezi
I used Prezi to
write some of my
evaluation in a
creative and
interesting way