This is a document to explain the positives and negatives of technologies we used in the production of our AS media product.

1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing
this product?
Technology/site used: What we used it for: Positives/what worked Negatives/what What we learnt about
well: problems we this technology(in a
encountered: nutshell):
Youtube.co.uk We used YouTube to The positives of A negative we This technology can be
upload our videos (Our YouTube are that it is encountered with great for getting
preliminary task, film very simple/easy to YouTube is that when yourself known in the
pitch etc.) from the use, and also very we wanted to change film industry because
IMAC’s onto our blogs. quick. It only took a the name of our video millions of people have
few minutes for our on the site, it was access to what you
videos to be fully complicated and took post.
uploaded, and the quite a few tries for it
software is already to actually work.
paired with Blogger, Also, YouTube is public
making it all the more anyone can see your
easy to upload our videos so privacy is an
video tasks. issue.
Facebook.com We used Facebook to Things that worked A negative I came We learnt from this
communicate within well when using across was that, yes technology
our group and share Facebook chat to you are able to share information from each
information and communicate was that images on a message, other, and the public,
images we had created it was quick and very but it was made as if you post publicly,
to upload to each accessible. It allows difficult to upload you are able to receive
other’s blogs. you to make a ‘group more than around 8, feedback for your
chat’, which worked because it kept work.
perfect for us because uploading the same
we could all pictures more than
communicate once, making it
together. Facebook difficult and taking a
chat allows you to see very long time when
who has viewed your trying to share our
message, and who location shots with
hasn’t in your group each other.
chat, therefore you
know who has the
information or not.
Blogger.com Blogger is the site By using a blog instead Blogger is relatively Using a blog is a very
powered by Google we of writing an essay, it easy to use, however, creative way to
are currently using to allows us to show our when trying to arrange present our work, we
actually create our creativity off, and pictures and text on learnt new ways of
blogs. express our the editing part of presenting information
understanding in the Blogger, it is made and discovered our
way and essay could extremely difficult creativity. It is also a
not. A positive is that it because there are only lot more entertaining
is a more entertaining three layout settings, to use than pen and
way of producing you end up with paper!

2. coursework, and can pictures and text in
be made to represent places you don’t want
your own idea of them, which takes a lot
media and show your of time to correct.
personal feelings Also, there are only a
towards your final few default
product. backgrounds and styles
to have on your blog,
so making your own
blog look individual
and unique is quite
difficult.
Outlook Web Access (School We used our school Using this email A problem we Through this, we learnt
email accounts) emails to account through our encountered with this that communication is
communicate sixth form made it very software is that it is vital, and this was an
information with other easy to communicate difficult to access. Not effective way of
members of our group with our media only was it difficult to keeping that
and communicate with teacher and our group. access from our home communication. It is
staff members It is very easy to use computer, but with a private and easy to
and is easy to attach few of our group use.
files such as pictures, members going away
presentations or word on holiday, they were
documents to each not able to access it
other. from there, making it a
very limited resource.
SlideShare.com We used SlideShare to SlideShare was A problem we came We discovered
upload our incredibly easy to use. across with SlideShare SlideShare through the
presentations and We simply uploaded is that when trying to creation of our blog.
documents in a our documents or upload to our blogs, it We learnt from other
creative and simple Microsoft took us a while to presentations on
way. presentations (such as actually figure out SlideShare, and learnt
our script and our how. But we overcame more creative ways of
character powerpoint) this problem presenting
onto SlideShare and eventually. information.
then uploaded them
straight to our blogs. It
is a very creative way
to upload our
information rather
than just flinging it
onto our blogs. It
shows our information
neatly and orderly.
With SlideShare it is
also very quick and
easy to edit your
presentation and re-
upload it; it takes only
a few minutes.

3. Google.co.uk We used Google to Google can be Google sometimes We learnt the majority
find information and accessed practically crashes, and also some of our information and
images throughout our anywhere on most information found on gained pictures and
entire course for devices, such as the internet may have got access to our sites
various different laptops, iPads, and been false. through Google.
things; for example mobile phones and
finding horror images even through our
to put on our blog and televisions via other
finding information devices. The easy
about audience theory accessibility of Google
and also using it to allowed us to access
access Blogger and all information and sites
our other various sites. quickly, and allowed us
to produce our blogs.
Camera: We used this camera The positives to this A negative to the By using this Camera
Panasonic full HD 1920x1080 to ultimately film our camera are that it is camera is the battery we learnt the easy
Hx-dc2 preliminary task, our very easy to use, and life. We often found ways in which you can
film pitch, and our easy to upload our then when charged all use technology, this
main product (opening footage to the IMACS day, it would still only camera allowed us to
sequence). and our home last around 30 minutes put theory into reality.
computers. when in use, this was
quite frustrating and
cause our group many
problems.
IMovie Our group used IMovie IMovie is a very good However, we did We learnt from IMovie
to upload, edit and piece of software to encounter a few skills of editing we
finish our media use, it is quick and problems when using couldn’t have acquired
product. relatively easy, and this software. Firstly, it anywhere else, we also
allows you to edit only allowed us to use learnt that IMovie is a
things on our product certain fonts and difficult piece of
we wouldn’t have music, and others we software!
been able to on other wanted had to be
software. It allowed us downloaded, which
to smoothly edit our took a long time.
film sequence. Secondly, we could not
access it from home,
so all editing had to be
done at college,
narrowing our
available time to work
on our product.
Microsoft Office We used Microsoft Microsoft office, such The negative to What we learnt about
(Word and PowerPoint office for several as PowerPoint Microsoft software is Microsoft is that it is
things, such as presentation and that it cannot be easier than people
preparing out film Microsoft Word are directly uploaded to think to use, it is all
pitch presentation, incredibly easy to use Blogger (our blogs), it available in one place
writing up our to-do and access. The had to be downloaded and is easy to pass
lists, writing up and documents are easy to through SlideShare, information on to
editing our final upload to SlideShare, and then onto our other people.
presentation) questions, writing our then to our blogs, and blogs. Also, if it does
script and presenting make it easy to work not already come with

4. our research on our from home and edit your available
blogs. with just a few clicks! computer, it can be
It has played a huge very expensive to buy.
part in the preparation
of our research and
the presentation of
our ideas.