Video shop system - Feasibility Study.

Priestley College Video shop system Feasibility Study Version Draft 1.0 3rd October 2003 Andrew McMahon DP1 Contents . Introduction 3 2. Scope of work 3 3. The Current Process 3 3. 1 Membership Details 3 3.2 Supplier Details 4 3.3 Video details 4 3.4 Video Copies 4 3.5 Borrow a video 4 3.6 Return a video 4 4. Potential Improvements 4 4. 1 Membership Details 4 4.2 Supplier Details 5 4.3 Video details 5 4.4 Video Copies 5 4.5 Borrow a video 5 4.6 Return a video 5 4.7 Management Information 5 5. Areas of responsibility 5 6. Risks / constraints 6 7. Cost / Benefit Analysis 6 8. Recommendations 6 . Introduction One of our students works in a video shop and has noticed that the shop use a manual processes for everything. They have identified several problems with the existing process and wondered if there was any way that this could be improved. Additionally, the video shop is undergoing expansion. There are two points to consider here. Refining their processes of work at this stage could affect the way the expansion is carried out. Any work carried out just now needs to take account of future expansions planned. The key thing is that those undertaking this study need to communicate with those involved in planning the company expansion. 2. Scope of work Currently none of the shops processes are computerised. This study will focus on the main

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"Digital Media is having a big impact on many things in this age. Examine and analyse the impact of digital media on our culture".

CMT2046: Essay "Digital Media is having a big impact on many things in this age. Examine and analyse the impact of digital media on our culture". Before examining the effect that Digital Media has on society and indeed western culture, we need to discover what the term Digital Media actually means... Just what is it that distinguishes Digital Media from previous forms of combined media? It is the fact that the bits that represent text, sound, pictures, and so on can be treated as data by computer programs. A computer program is able to control the order in which various components are presented and combined, and can do so in response to input from a computer user. In other words, Digital Media can be interactive, in a way that, for example, a TV news bulletin is not, and that goes far beyond the simple control afforded by a VCR. Digital Media is a term used to describe any computer application that uses more than one type of output medium, such as text, graphics, video, animation or sound. Strictly speaking, the term 'media' is the plural of 'medium', just as 'data' is the plural of 'datum'. Digital media has two states: Static and Dynamic. Static digital media are items, which do not have the capability to do something, move or react with the environment, for example, text and graphics. Dynamic digital media consists of audio, video and animation, which all have

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Benefits of an Online Business Presence

Unit 8 - Business Online Task 2 - Benefits of an Online Business Presence In this task I am going to explain the developments in internet technology, describe the benefits of an online presence and give examples of businesses that enjoy these benefits and finally explain the advantages of to businesses of having an online presence rather than having a purely offline presence. Broadband and other developments Nowadays, broadband connections enable data to be transferred much faster than narrowband. The connection does not tie up a normal phone line. The user can choose get online by an ADSL connection, a cable line, wireless or via satellite dish. Also the internet is low cost and is increasing in speed which benefits the commerce online. The new portable devices such as PDA offer the user easy internet access at any time. 80% of the UK can get broadband by ADSL and cable. Most of people use internet every day which enables a great share of data. Secure payments The increase of security enables the use of credit/debit card facilities. But the newspapers and magazine headlines about fraud and hackers quite obviously put people off. To be secured, all the online payments need to be private and confidential between the buyer and the seller, conveyed intact and without any changes during transmission and erased from the system after the process has been completed. The banks

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Analysis of the Video for Madonna's Song "Frozen"

Michael Lee Media Coursework MADONNA-Frozen I have been asked to analyse the video for Madonna's song titled frozen. For this I will look at the words and video of the song and see how the writer and director have tried to put the song across to the listeners of Madonna's music. To analyse the video I will need to understand about cinema convention terminology. This is a technical language that correctly describes a range of techniques that have been In my opinion the song 'frozen' is designed as a love song as the words suggest this. I think she is singing about her loving someone, but they perhaps not loving her. This is shown in many lines throughout the song. For example she says 'if I could melt your heart', meaning his heart is possibly like ice and he may be cold towards her. Also she states 'your frozen when your hearts not open' which could again mean she can't penetrate his heart. It's almost as if his heart is actually frozen and she is trying to thaw it out to get to it. I believe that in a video you must make it with the type of song it is for in mind. For the video 'frozen' the director and designers have really used the video to boost the way the song is projected to the public excellently. The video complimented the meaning of the lyrics with the mood it makes you feel and nothing happens by chance in the video. Colours are a key aspect of videos and

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ict online service

Online services 1.1 There are five different services in which I will be studying these are: * Communications * Commerce * Entertainment * Download services * Real time information Communications Communications is a way in which people can talk or have a conversation with another person using the internet. Using communications saves you many so that you don't have to spend money buying credit on a phone. It is a very easy and free way to interact with people all over the world. I will be going into detail for two methods in which you can communicate with other people through the internet. These will be Windows live Messenger and Newsgroups. Instant messaging Instant messaging is a program in which you download from the internet this allows anybody who has internet do download the program for free. Instant messaging Is a program which allows you to talk to people all around the world instantly which means they have to be online for you both to talk to each other free of charge and when you write a message they can read it in like a second after you sent it. Also you can meet friend on msn as many people use this method of talking. Also if you have a webcam you can also let the person who you are talking to have visual contact with you through the webcam. In addition instant messaging allows to sent files to the other people and you can receive files. E.g. you

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The potential of e-commerce

E-commerce Britain is turning into a dot.com nation. By 2001 over 10 million homes had access to the Internet compared with 6 million the year before. Also, many people access the Internet through cyber cafés and schools, colleges and universities. In recent years, more and more people (specifically the young) have turned to e commerce. Retailers simply cannot afford to ignore these developments. However, not all retailers are equally well placed to take advantage of this changing environment for trade. Recent events have demonstrated that selling via the Internet is not a guaranteed success for all companies. Some Internet ventures have collapsed even though billions of pounds were spent on trying to build the brands. These examples include: * Boo.com, an on-line fashion and sports clothes retailer, which failed despite having £12million ploughed into creating awareness of it. * Webvan, which soaked up £700 million in an attempt to create a large-scale retailing chain in the USA. Webvan had to file for bankruptcy. Other companies are 'hanging in there', but have yet to make a profit. They struggle largely because they required an existing brand presence and needed to create one. Doing so is a long and expensive drag. The potential of e commerce E-commerce is seen as a major area of development over the next few years and virtually every well-known retailer is

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