Week 7 - Digital Media - Producing Media

Week 7 - Using Digital Media – Producing Resources

The use of digital media, I feel can be expressed in a variety of ways. The use of cameras, video, digital software to upload photos/images are a hand-picked few.  There is also new digital media on the market available to purchase at an affordable price.

Go-pros (small box like cameras) are useful when filming or taking photos from any angle or location. As the go-pro is so small it is handy to hold and operate, it is also waterproof which takes advantage. Go-pros are on the market ranging from $300-$400, which is an affordable price for people in the sports industry (sports coaches and/or athletes) to help see the fine details of their skills and what needs to be improved if need be.

I-Pads have also been introduced in the past two years by the company; Apple. Ranging from $500-$700 I-pads come in handy as when documenting work and sorting out coaching material it easy to transport wherever you go, can hold a lot of information and also contains an inbuilt camera. Although the zooming quality isn't the best, I am positive Apple will build on the function and improve it for future updates of the I-Pad.

Producing resources is important in both sports coaching and any digital world of media. In regards to sports coaching, it is essential the correct digital media is used for the type of sport you are analysing and incorporating strategies. Sports’ coaching is an area of expertise; each movement is broken down in order to qualify for time results or correct a skill that isn't quite being executed properly. With this acknowledgement and positive/constructive feedback should be given.

Producing resources is important as it further grows our own individual knowledge and by viewing others work can help extend our own thoughts, and as others may express work in a different way; this could open our eyes to new ideas and/or new paths to go on when researching, analysing and documenting information.

The production of a range of different resources can be gathered from the internet, libraries, on-line learning/sporting journals etc. Digitally, I am a little confused but yet interested in exploring and researching for our upcoming assignments. I feel I need to explore sites such as Slideshare and Prezi more in depth to rap my head around what we have been asked to do. Once I understand the digital site I should be comfortable forming my assignment and researching in the on-line digital world.