Day 5

Yesterday we had a review with Julian about where we were on our assignment. I moved a few pictures of the 3D models that i have designed onto Josh's portable hardrive along with the edited videos. We displayed our work to the class and had some good feedback from both lecturer and students.

After the review we sat down in our group and planned out the rolls and it was discussed that i would be the group leader, Flash and 3D designer.

Differences betweent Blogging and Forums

Blogging and Forum posting can be compared with the differences between IM and E-mails. Blogging is similar to E-mails and Forum posting to Instant Messaging.



Forum posting is equivalent to a large group of people discussing one topic at any given time (IM), Blogging is similar in a way but is more like an information website where users can read the post and comment if they wish instead of discussing the topic.

Booking forms

Today I am going to fill out a booking form allowing myself and Josh to use a video camera for Thursday. We are aiming to record a couple of cut scenes and pans of the college etc.

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MMS

The Multimedia message service is the protocol used to send multimedia objects from mobile phones directly to another. Media such as pictures, videos and sound clips can be sent via this protocol.

The MMS feature doesnt not send the multimedia directly to the receiving phone, it actually sends as an SMS (push notification) and is then directed to a URL that the receiver must retrieve to view the contents of the MMS.

To send an mms the protocol initiates a GPRS Protocol and then is stored in a internet cloud which is later received by the other mobile device.

In todays lesson we watched Julians tutorial on how to make a 3D Text with lightening and clouds. I learned many new techniques and effects.

Comments on Billy Gerrie's Post

From reading Billy Gerrie's Blog post I have understood the history of the 3G and where it all began. His research has made me understand the concept on 3G and the speeds it is capable of, up to 1.5Mb/s.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

GPRS Protocol

The General Packet Radio Service is the upgrade from the standard 2G, although it is good for phone calling and texting it is pretty useless when attempting to browse the Internet. The GPRS is and add on to the 2G rendering it capable of higher transfer speeds of up to 48 kbps, thus in turn gives it a new name; 2.5G.

With 2G the amount billed would match the amount of time spent with the connection open whereas with GPRS the amount payable would match the actual amount of data used, this simple upgrade could save money and is also far more reasonable.

The other main benefit from using GPRS is that the users can experience a far more graphical enriched life allowing them to recieve colour Internet browsing, e-mail, powerful visual communications such as video streaming, multimedia messages and location-based services.

Although restricted to users of GSM mobile phones there are so many benefits and as nearly 2.5 Billion people own a mobile phone this shouldn't be a problem.

Day 4

With our schedule we managed to interview all of our booked appointments with the students, we even picked up a few on the way. Using a USB cable i transferred the recordings onto my laptop using Adobe Premiere.

Day 3

Today we Scheduled times of people we were aiming to interview. We managed to ask a few a few people in various departments whether or not they would be able to answer a few questions on film about their chosen course. With a list in hand we set off to book the equipment for the subsequent day.

WAP and GSM Protocols

WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
GSM: Global Systems for Mobile Communications

The WAP Protocol is commonly used in standard cell phones purely because it can deliver basic Internet information quickly and effectively over the slow transfer speed that these such devices use. It is commanly used for basic e-mails and websites that support WAP. Later, this information was converted to the new format of WML (Wireless Markup Language).

Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) Protocol is the standard for mobile communications method used today with over 80% of the global mobile market using it. The main benefits of GSM is that it allows the feature of being able to globaly call and emergancy number(112). Also the GSM service implements a low cost SMS with benefits the mass population as nearly 8 Billion texts are sent a day, globally.

Day 2

This evening after college I finished off designing two of the models in 3D; the Learning Gateway and the Media Block. After completion I uploaded them directly to the Google 3D warehouse for future use in out project.

Forum Discussion

I created a forum discussing weather people prefer PC's or Mac's - Weymouth College Moodle - I also commented on many other disccusion forums.

W3C Consideration

Considering the vast amount of disabled people that use the internet it is only fair that i take in and consider that fact that i could make my blog a little bit more suitable. By learning what W3C does to help disabled people it has given me and insight on how i can adapt my blog for the greater use that a larger percentage of people can use and read my blog. Small things that i could do to improve my blog for the disabled could be as simple as increasing the font size. Many concepts such as voice annotation could be intergrated within my blog. With perserveirence; everyone will have access to the internet.

College Building Photographs

 
 

Today we started to take photos of the exterior of the college buildings so that i could apply them to the 3D models that i am making in a CAD software.

Day 1

Today, Josh; Zoe; Sophie and myself sat in the Student Lounge and discussed the plan for our project. We decided that the first thing on our engender was to record the interviews, the plan was to split up into pairs so that we could record far more in a shorter time. We also discussed what each person will be doing throughout the assignment.