Evaluation- Part 6

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


computer- 

DELL 'optiplex 745'

The college computers that we used are simple to use but old, and the majority of websites are actually blocked including key websites needed so we had to get them unblocked for our usage. Also they don't have large memory capacities so would often freeze when using sony vegas unless we were on the computers specifically for media students.


 my personal laptop-

                                                        TOSHIBA 


I used this at home to do blogging, create prezis and just do more general work. I know how to use this very well as it's my own personal possession and I didn't have the annoyance of crashing at it has a large memory capacity.


blogger-

I think that this website is very useful in terms of presentation and understanding. It is a sort of media diary and allows you to show your progression throughout the course. it was simple and straightforward to use


www.prezi.com -

I found that Prezi was very simple to use but it took me a while to find the embedding coding but that is the only struggle I found with Prezi.


Microsoft powerpoint 2010-

Microsoft powerpoint (2010) is very simple to use, and is an effective way of showing off a large amount of work but using a funner method  of presenting it. So when I realized you could partner this with slide share I instantly started creating a powerpoint presentation. 


slide share- 

his website was very simple to use as you'd already done all the work on a different programme for example I used Microsoft powerpoint, and just uploaded that onto there and it just converter it into a more presentable version for my blog.


camera-

PANASONIC HX-DC1

I found the camera work very easy to do as it was a simple video camera- the memory on this isn't a tape it is just stored onto the camera so we could plug it straight into the computer via cables- this was a quick and simple way of doing this, quicker than using a tape we thought which is why we chose this camera instead of the cameras that took tape.


tripod- 

We had some problems with the tripod to begin with as we used Emma's which had a broken leg which we didn't know about until we went out and got to our filming location, so we had to try and act as the third leg, which was a pain. We then got a tripod that worked for out second trip out filming and that was more successful. It was simple to use and put away which was a bonus.


Sony Vegas- (programme- then the process of rendering.)

The programme itself is very difficult to use at first- As we showed due to our poor quality preliminary task. So we watched the tutorials for a bit more support but, they were still not as helpful as we needed so  we asked our classmates, where the buttons for certain things were, and this way we learnt where everything that we need was on the programme. It took a lot of time to get to grips with it as we'd never used a complex film editing programme before; For example i'd only ever used windows media maker. 
The process of rendering is so simple as it's literally a click of the button, but, what format that we needed to render our preliminary film task we was unaware of which added to the lateness of uploading this task. So we learnt from the prelim. what format to render it under which made the rendering process so much easier.


www.youtube.com-

I used this to upload my preliminary filming and also my final product- two minute opening. It was very simple to use and it pretty much did it all for you.