Digital Convergence is the process which media such as photographs, music and movies are converted into numbers, are digitalized and delivered across computer networks.
Three advantages that digital products are over their analog counterparts are that digital products are cheaper to make, digital products dont degrade with use or reproduction and the third advantage is portability and transmission.
Three analog video formats include NTSC (National Television System Committee), PAL (Phase Alternating Line), and SECAM or also written as SÉCAM (Séquentiel couleur avec mémoire, which is French for Sequential Colour with Memory).
Advantages Digital video has over Analog video include that digital videos will not degrade over time or with use, editing is not possible on an Analog video and avaliable for digital as well as many other features, digital videos have a higher resolution and Analog videos can not connect to all computer systems as easily as a digital, if at all.
The disadvantage of digital video however, is that digital video requires alot more memory to keep a certain amount of data compared to an analog making it more expensive to maintain, digital videos tend to pixelate and look uglier when trying to enlarge them and the possibility of technology fails.
Three digital video file formats include AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) which is a multimedia file format used to store audio and video and is used on Windows® OS computers, MOV (A file format generated by QuickTime® software) which is a widely used format for multimedia and the web, and WMA (Windows Media Audio) which is a base of all products components and services from Microsoft® which can create, deliver and play streaming files.
Three ways to reduce the file size of digital video are to compress the video data, reduce the dimensions of each frame, or reduce the frame rate.
A CODEC is an acronym for COmpression / DEcompression. A CODEC is a special computer program which can compresses or reduce the number of bytes which are consumed by larger files.
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage media format which is hused for high definition video and storage of data. The disc has the same dimensions as a (standard) DVD or CD.
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I chose ‘Picture 2’ as my image as I think, in a discrete way, it does tell the viewer about me and my personality.
I am hiding my smile behind my camera and I have a serious look about me. This is because even though I may be smiling, theres more to me than meets the eye.
I also did my hair as best as I could, which makes it up to the viewer to decide if they think it is good or not because I take great pride in my hair. I put on a headband in the photo to make it a bit obvious, for a male I do love my hair and what I can do with it.
My top favourite colour is also blue, so i wore a blue top and took the photo infront of my blue sheets ontop of my blue bed.
Frame The Object
This photograph complies with the ‘Frame the object’ rule as in the photograph is a picture of two people being framed by branches of a tree surrounding them.
Repetition
This photograph complies with the ‘Repetition’ rule as in the photograph is a picture of small wooden beams lined up in a row continuing through out the photograph.
Leading the eye
This photograph complies with the ‘Leading the eye’ rule as the path look as if it is narrowing to the end to the viewer which leads their eye from the bottom of the picture to the end of the path way.
S bends and crescents
This photograph complies with the ‘S bends and crescents’ rule as the tiles curve from the right side of the photograph starting at the bottom to the left side of the photograph ending at the top.
Fill the frame
This photograph complies with the ‘Fill the frame’ rule as in the photograph there is a four wheel drive occupying most of the picture which draws all attention at the four wheel drive and nothing else in the photograph.
Depth and interest
This photograph complies with the ‘Depth and interest’ rule as the main intrest in the photo is the glasses and there is a large building in the distant background behind the glasses.
Rule of thirds
This photograph complies with the ‘Rule of thirds’ rule as if there were two imaginary horizontal and two imagninary verticle lines divind the picture into 9 equal squares, the bottom left point where one of the horizontal and verticle lines intersect would be the point of intrest as there is a person standing there.
Use Lines
This photograph complies with the ‘Use Lines’ rule as there are alot of lines in the picture going in all sorts of directions in different forms of the objects in the picture.
S bends and crescents
Above is a photograph demonstrating the ‘S bends or Crsents’. The road is twisting in the shape of an S which makes the viewer automatically follow the road with their eyes.
Rule of thirds
Above is a photograph demonstrating the ‘rule of thirds’. If there were a grid of 9 squares ontop of the picture the horizon would line up closely with one of the horizontal lines, which would be one of the lines of interest.
Fill the frame
Above is a photograph demonstrating the ‘fill the frame’. In the photograph is a picture of a ship which takes up a prodominant amount of the photo.
Below is a photo taken on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria
To start with, my name is marco!
My parents are both spanish ( my dad from Madrid with a great story behind his life coming to Australia) and my mum who was born in Luxenburg but with both of her parents Spanish.
I was born here in Australia!
I decided to do AIT at Canning College as it seemed to be an interesting computing course to do as I spend alot of my time on the computer but have never done an actual computing course other than basic parts of one in a design and technology course.
I hope to acheive getting into a reasonably good university studying a computing course such as the new gaming course or another one of the decent computing courses.
I am fairly good at computers as I spend most of my life on one… UNLESS I am going out of course! I used to do basic design and technology at my previous school which involved me designing stickers, and a project of a table that I would later build!
I don’t really edit photos of myself but when my mates want me to ‘tune up’ their physical appearance I do so with basic programs such as the Windows Photo Gallery and sometimes (but rarely) I use paint!
My main intrests are music (heavy metal, punk rock, screamo and the occasional emo band) and I LOVE going to concerts! By the way, I was at the Iron Maiden concert last night!
Jusy for the record I am a little bit of a gamer/im’er and I am rarely seen on myspace (as sad as that would sound for me to say in the world today).
ADD ME ON MSN: parra.marco@hotmail.com
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