The document discusses the technologies used in various media coursework projects, including websites for researching films (IMDB), recording audio (microphone), editing video (Final Cut Express), editing audio (Audacity), using Apple Mac computers, making music (GarageBand), researching online (Google Chrome), building websites (Wix), filming footage (Canon camera), uploading videos (YouTube), presenting information (Prezi), conducting surveys (SurveyMonkey), reviewing films (Rotten Tomatoes), and presenting work (SlideShare). While some technologies like iMacs, Chrome, and Wix were easy to use, others like Final Cut Express, Audacity, GarageBand, uploading to iMacs, annotating YouTube videos

1. Technologies in media

2. We researched many different films in the genre of horror – we did this by using
IMDB.
IMDB is a website that shows nearly every film and tells you all the information
from ratings to quotes from the film you select.
The good thing about this site is that you can read the summary of any film and
we used this to look at many films to see what was successful in a film and
wasn’t.
However the disadvantages of IMDB was that you cant see the age of the main
audience that liked it you just know the rating over all.
As a group we needed to aim our film at a certain age group and IMDB didn’t
help us in that area.

3. We used this microphone many times in our coursework.
I used it for the podcast and weather report. I found it very easy and
useful to use because it was small however recorded every sound we
made.
The only issue with it was the memory on the memory card – other
than that one issue everything was fine and it was very useful to
everyone in the group because it was small and compact rather than
big and heavy.

4. Final cut express was a very big programme in our coursework
and we used it to edit every video related piece of work.
It did take me a while to get around using it and to do certain
things – I found it difficult to move scenes and cut them to the
right timings. However when I started using it more and more I
picked up how to use it.

5. We used audacity for editing our podcast and weather report
and I found it very difficult to use – I had to ask my group if they
knew how to use it.
Luckily by watching I learnt how to use it and after that I was
okay with using it.

6. I have had experience using the Apple Macs so I did find them
easy to use. However I did find it difficult finding the pieces of
work I saved due to the different locations on the Apple Macs.
Other than that issue using the Apple Macs was very easy for
me – I know that some people in my group found them hard to
get around so I showed them how to use them.

7. I found it very difficult using garage band on the Apple Macs so I
spent a while fiddling and using it before I produced the music
with Martyna. I still found it hard to use and to make the right
music for the project we where producing so I worked along side
Martyna making the music because she had more expericance
with it than I did.

8. I have great experience with Google Chrome so I found this easy
to research and to find things on the internet.
I used it a lot in my coursework for looking at various websites
and editing our website. Everyone in my group used Google
Chrome because it was faster and a lot more efficient than
Safari.

9. I have made many websites in the past and therefore have used
Wix.
I didn’t need to learn anything new and I found it easy to use. I
taught people in my group how to use it and showed them how
to make a website look very professional.

10. I have used Canon cameras in the past so I found it easy to use
the camera and film some shots however when I was uploading
onto the Apple Macs, I found it difficult.
A couple of times I did upload the wrong images and shots from
our film the Menace.
However when I understood what to do this became easier.

11. I have used YouTube in the past and I knew how to upload
videos and how to help the viewing numbers increase.
I didn’t know how to annotate the images at first, so I had to ask
for help on how to do it – after I knew where it was I found it
easy to do.

12. Prezi was used in my coursework for presenting my work in a
different way, I found this different and hard to use because it
had many different options on how to present it.

13. It was very easy to use Survey Monkey because you type in your
questions and publish it to a wider audience rather than asking
the people we know personally.
However the only negative issue I had with Survey Monkey was
that the people I knew personally had to visit survey monkey
and use that to fill out our survey – this was because then all of
the results would be together in one section rather than using
two different types of media.

14. Rotten Tomatoes was a extremely useful site for us because it
showed us what the audience enjoyed and didn’t about each
film that has come out.
The audience could write a comment at their own free will and
also to vote. This was very useful for us because we could see
what they like and didn’t like about each film.

15. Slide share was a useful way of presenting my work on our
website and was very easy to use and upload the PowerPoints'.
However it took me time finding how you link it up to the
website and I got confused on how it worked.
After I over came this obstacle it was easy for me to use and
upload and attach my work to Wix.