Evaluation Question 6

The technologies used in our media product is too broad a topic to cover so it is going to be split into research and planning, hardware and software, construction hardware and software, then finally evaluation  hardware and software.


Research and planning, Hardware.

We had used a Panasonic GS500B, boom mic and tripod before but now it had been done in much more detail as we had to get many different camera shots for our production like a tilt etc, as some of this was not covered by this in the preliminary task. the tripod was obviously the same to use then the prelim task and was easy to use and understand as it only needed tweaking to change the rate of change of direction the camera focuses on. the camera was almost the same we had learnt most if not all basics aside from changing the focus manually but we understood that after a while. the boom mic was the same to however we had to learn that it works better when pointed in the direction of the point of origin of the sound to receive the sound better but after a quick revelation the recording equipment was mastered to use appropriately for our production.
This was used fluently throughout our production however as this is research and planning then it was only used to film the interviews that we had set up for target audience which involved a stationary camera and holding the boom mic to pick up sound so it wasn't used the most significantly in this stage.
We used a Hanns. G computer for the use of our blogger and other software's.

Research and planning, Software.
We used Google chrome for blogger, you tube, slide-share and Prezi.

Blogger, was hard to understand at first as all the different links that could have been clicked and an overwhelming user interface for someone who does not use the internet however after a while the useful paths become almost highlighted to you and it becomes a very simple process to use.

Prezi, this seemed to confuse some people and it seemed easy to some others as the user interface was simple however appeared busy and did not reveal designated paths as much as is necessary however this could not be helped so after a while of usage and some explaining was needed but eventually Prezi become something that was natural to all of us.

Google chrome is no real significance it is only used as an internet explorer.

Construction Hardware.
The hardware is mostly the same as the ones used for research and planning except in this we used a sound studio or sound booth, this was used for Foley sounds and to record a narrative, this was fairly easy as we found the sounds we wanted and produced it to the desired tempo and rhythm used for the production.

Construction Software.
This is where most of the evaluation can begin as we used Sony movie studio platinum 12.0, this was good as it was explained simply and developed a good understanding from the prelim task of how to use it as (similar to Prezi) there is a complicated and full user interface that derives from ubiquitous arrangement of various buttons and links etc,

However once asking teachers and a few you tube videos to explain volume envelopes the software became real easy to use, good however is something different the animation is hard to do as there is no real tutorials for this and it works on a timeline basis on a whole instead of being able to change individual scenes of animation the scene after must be returned to its factory settings as it messes up the whole film post scene animation. there was also a problem with crashing as the workload overloaded the CPU.

Evaluation hardware.
The Hanns G computer was used along with the apple macs however the apple macs are not as good as they do have a problem with uploads and publishing posts etc however the Hanns G from Nova-tech never really had any problems that so no problems were encountered in using them derived from the hardware itself.

Evaluation Software.
The only software used for this are the same in the research and planning, nothing more was needed as the evaluation only contained Prezi's and the rest was wrote on blogger as a means of mainly treatises and so was not much need for additional software.