Social Network Sites. Social Network sites have grown massivly over the past few years. In particular facebook which from February 2012 has more than 845 million active users, and Twitter which 300 million users as of 2011. For its growing popularity we decided to use Social Network sites such as Facebook and Twitter to promote and advertise our Final Products. Through having thousands of friends and followers in our group consisting of 4 members, we were able to capture people mostly of our age, to complete our audience research which we did on Survey Monkey. This was a good technique as it showcased our survey to many friends on the Social Network sites, so conduct thorough target
audience research. As all of oru group are familiar with the Social Network sites, we found this one of the most rewarding technologies that we used, and had no difficulties using these sites to help us in the stages to completing our final Media Products.
Adobe Photoshop. Working with Adobe Photoshop is not something that is unfamilar to me or any of my group members. We have come into contact with the programme many times in AS Media Studies when making our first ever College Magazine Cover and our Music Magazine Cover, Contents Page and Double Page. In A2 Media Studies we used Adobe Photoshop to complete out Ancillary Tasks which were our Film Magazine Cover and Horror Poster. I feel my ability to complete a task to a good standard on Adobe Photoshop are still at a similar level, but AS was the year that I was still familiarsing my self witht he programme, so was more time consuming when making my Final Products for AS. This year, in A2 I would not say that my Ancillary Tasks are at a majorly higher standard than my AS Final Products. The major difference is the time in which it took to complete the Final Products for both years. In my AS year it took me around a month or so to complete all the products, if not longer. Where as this year, in my A2 class it took me only a week to create my Ancillary Products. This is not to say that I did not put as much effort in, I was just more familar with the programme and did not need to test certain applications out, as I knew what worked for me with regards to my taste in how I like my Final Pieces to look, and what didnt.
Flickr. When analysing still images Flickr has been a helpful product to neatly organise my analysis of Magazine Front Covers, Horror Posters and all the Music Covers, Posters and so forth. Flickr allows you to change you the style in which you complete tasks, so instead of just writing a large chunk of analysis, it allows you to select certain aspects of an image, then write detailed descriptions and details about the image, which make it a more overall experience. Also Flickr allows you to link the images to your blog, so that when the examiner comes to mark your work, he can see that you have not only used a small amount of technologies to complete your work, you have thought, considers and put into practice other technologies to make your work more vaired and interesting. Also, Flickr made it very easy for me to create my other Final Products that I made on Photoshop. It did this by allowing me to analyse professional work critically and then take all that quantified and qualified analysis then put it into practice on my work. for example I analysed Film Magazine Covers on Flickr and Horror Posters on Flickr. This was very vitally important for me as it allowed me to look into the conventions and styles used when making Media Products like these. This has essentially then helped me when making my own Anciallary Tasks, which will benefit me in my final grade.
Blogger. In the past 2 years of studying Media Studies Blogger has been our Bible. All of our course work has been projected and put onto out Blog. After using the site for 2 years I have now become quite familiar in how the site works and feel that it is not only beneficial for the work side but is also a good way to follow other peoples life styles and shared interest outside of the work enviroment. Blogger created a space where I could display all of my AS and A2 work. As Media Studies is a very creative subject, it requires a lot of detailed work (writing) but also a creative flare such as pictures, videos and colour. For this reason th expanstion of Web 2.0 has allowed me to make my Blog into a creative piece of work, where is cross platforms with other sites and allows you to use more creativly challenging material, to make my course work more interesting.
This is probably the best of your answers so far but there is a glaring omission. You have not discussed Final Cut Pro which was probably the most important software in the generation of this project. You need to get a screenshot of your project and explore the interface, perhaps by doing a Flickr analysis of it, showing which tools and techniques you used in order to create your product.
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