Monday 1 March 2010

Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Technology

In producing our music video and thriller projects we used google, youtube, wikipedia, amazon, blogger, facebook, digital camcorders, final cut, garage band, photoshop, illustrator.

The Advantages of Google

  • Convenient as it has access to all information for users to view
  • Readily accessible, no special hardware or software needed to access it
The Disadvantages
  • Not always relevant information appears
  • Can lead to false websites asking for payment for information
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The Advantages of YouTube
  • Easily accessible content
  • Provides access to user made and official information and videos
  • A Way for users to learn new techniques
  • Very good for research
The Disadvantages of YouTube
  • Copyright material is very hard to upload to it, i.e. user made music videos
  • Restricted by YouTube and users on what can be put on the website
  • Some videos are false, as they say they are one thing when they are actually something different
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The Advantages of Wikipedia
  • Readily accessible information
  • Easy access to any information you may need
The Disadvantages
  • Not always accurate as anyone can edit it
  • Not regulated to make sure information is correct, up-to-date, and complete
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The Advantages of amazon
  • Easy access to information on actual products available, e.g. digipacks, music genres
  • Allows users to buy content at a decent price
The Disadvantages
  • Limited information about the products as they are focused on the selling
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The Advantages of Blogger
  • Easily accessible user submitted content
  • Allows for users to voice their own opinions
  • Allows users to use it a place to store research and project timelines, etc.
The Disadvantages
  • Not restricted in terms of what can be posted
  • Not regulated for what comments are posted other than the blog owner
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The Advantages of Facebook
  • Social Networking, allowing access to people, groups, pages, fan pages of who you know or want to find more information about
  • Easy access to talk to artists, celebrities and other users
The Disadvantages
  • Sign up to access the content
  • Some of the pages aren't official, fan made
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The Advantages of Digital Camcoders
  • Allows easy recording of footage
  • Allows easy review of footage to see if it needs to be re-recorded
  • Easy to capture into a computer and be edited
The Disadvantages
  • Storage media has to be kept safe to prevent data loss
  • No lock to stop the footage being overwritten
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The Advantages of Final Cut
  • Easy editing of footage
  • Powerful Software to make professional products with filter
  • Almost unrestricted in terms of what you can produce
The Disadvantages
  • Expensive to buy for normal users
  • Requires a bit of training to get used to how to use it
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The Advantages of Garage Band
  • Create professional style music without the expense of making all of the music yourself or getting people to do it for you
  • Lots of sample music which can be used as well as edited to suit the users needs
The Disadvantages
  • Limited in terms of how to capture any actual music
  • Difficult to get used to initially and set up to work in the right way
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The Advantages of Photoshop
  • Allows users to create and edit any photo file formats
  • Can create professional images
  • Easy to use interface for any users to use
  • Almost unrestricted design
The Disadvantages
  • Training needed to get full potential of editing software
  • Very Expenive to buy
  • May need plug-ins or other software to make an even better image, e.g. part of Adobe Creative Suite
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The Advantages of Illustrator
  • Easy to use print or web graphic production software
  • Unrestricted Design Capabilites
  • Widely used so lots of tutorials from users to make new style of graphics
The Disadvantages
  • Expensive
  • Needs Training to become very good at using the software
  • May need other software in the creative suite range to make even better graphics, further expense

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