Digital Technology
1) What were the good and bad things about the software and hardware you used at AS in terms of skills development
The first piece of hardware encountered was the apple macs. The controls and programming was different from a desktop Pc so it took a slight getting used to but I soon quickly adapted. The software we had to use to store all our work was blogger. Again this was new to me and it was hard to navigate around the site. However the software came in extremely useful as it was a useful site to store all the work electronically without having to mess around with keeping note of where you’ve put your work and having a load of different sheets with all your information and work on. For our preliminary task we had to use Microsoft publisher. For our main task we used Pages. We also used Photoshop elements to do all our editing for photos. I had difficulty in using the programme as id never come across it before. However after a basic tutorial from a teacher I used trial and error to test out different tools. I also bought the programme to use at home so I was able to practice my skills and become more familiar with the software.
2) What are the good things and bad things about software and hardware at A2 in terms of Skills development?
From using the software in our preliminary and main task I was able to transfer my skills over to use in A2. This improved my ability to work efficiently as I was familiar with using the software needed. There was a new programme video editing software we used; imovie. The good thing about the software was that it was relatively easy to use. The use of software furthermore was good because it didn’t need any training to learn to use it. It was easy to navigate around and learn and teach yourself how to use texts across your media, use filters and transitions and it also allowed editing of sound. Other software we used was the video camera. It was easy to use and so was helpful as it gave us relative ease in achieving a variety of camera angle and shots.
3) 3) How did you use your AS filming/shooting and editing skills to aid the construction of your main task at A2?
From AS we were able to get to grips with the camera. We experimented with angles, shots, framing and what suited and went best in terms of what we wanted to show. From being able to practice I learnt different techniques in which we could manipulate pictures and edit them to completely recreate a picture. This aided me in the construction of our music video at A2 as we were able to use different angles shots throughout our filming. Understanding how to frame people in a certain way allowed us to carry this on into our A2 production and helped to show people in different ways for example doing a low shot of the police interviewer helped to show his authority and dominance. Also in other scenes with our main guy we did a lot of shots where he would be in the first 3rd of the picture to allow the audience to understand where he is via the surroundings beside him and behind him. Knowing editing skills also aided us in A2 as we could change lighting and transitions to how we actually wanted to portray it. From previously using the editing software, we were aware of what we could do and what we could achieve which allowed us to edit in a organised way and complete the editing promptly.
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