Describe the ways in which your project work was aided by your use of digital technology and how your ability to use digital technology developed over time.
(What they mean is to cover both your AS year and A2 year. Include research and planning as well as construction in our answer, and do not forget to state what products you are talking about.)
For my foundation portfolio I created a film opening and for the main part of my advanced portfolio I created two adverts, all of which we're heavily aided by the use of digital technology. When looking at both research and planning, and construction, It is clear that my ability in using different aspects of digital technology has improved drastically between the time of creating my foundation and advanced project peaces.
Firstly a clear way in which both my AS and A2 projects have been aided by digital technology is through the use of digital camera filming. Using a digital camera (Nikon D3200) allowed me to separately film many various shots at different times as all the shots are saved to a SD card in the camera. This was beneficial to me in construction for both my projects as it made the process of transferring shots from the camera to a computer straight forward and quick. When looking at the actual camera shots which I used in my film opening for my foundation portfolio compared to the shots which I used in the adverts for my advanced portfolio, it is clear that my ability to use the digital camera for filming has improved. In my film opening the pan shots which I used to show the main character running along the street are slightly jolty and are not smooth, the speed of the pan used in these shots does not flow at a consistent rate. Furthermore I feel that some of the shots in the footage are too long especially the shots when the character is seen on the phone. The camera shots used in my adverts are of a much more plausible quality, I used similar style pan shots in my first advert to what I used in my AS work as once again I was filming someone running, however it is clear that the quality of these pan shots is a lot better and that my skills in filming have developed, as the pace of the pan is consistent and the shots are a lot smoother. I was able to improve my pan shots through the usage of a C handle which I purchased for the filming of my advanced portfolio adverts.
I used various different programs on my computer to represent information for planning and research tasks in both of my projects for AS and A2, such as Microsoft word and powerpoint. Digital technology allowed me to present information on these programs and then upload them to my blogger site through a program which acts as the middle man named Slideshare. To represent research and planning for my foundation portfolio I mainly used word, powerpoint and simple blog posts, although I did include other types of software usage such as exam time most of my work was presented using those 3 formats. Although this worked well I didn't show an incredibly wide usage or knowledge of different program softwares. Throughout my advanced portfolio research and planning I used a wider range of softwares to represent my work such as Slides and further usage into Examtime and Stroyboard, this shows how my skills and knowledge in digital technology software developed between the time of my AS and A2 work as I now have an ability to use more software when comparing between the two projects.
Web 2.0 was the main source of research for both of my projects. Web 2.0 allowed me to look at existing film openings for my foundation year work and at existing adverts for my advanced year work on Youtube.com. From using digital technology in this way I was able to watch various videos which gave me ideas on what to include within my projects and how to create them. Furthermore web 2.0 allowed me to created a Facebook fan page for the company which I created for my A2 work, this is beneficial as it would allow me to promote my company to thousands of people for free using social networking.
It is clear that digital technology has aided the works for my foundation and portfolio years heavily. My skills in using and applying different aspects of digital technology to my work has clearly reached a much higher level between the time of my AS and A2 year work in both planning research and physical construction.
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