Unit 02 - Communicating and Presenting Ideas in the Creative Media Sector

1. There are many different ways in which you can communicate, such as:

• Telephone - good to use when you want to talk to someone for a small period of time, as it can get expensive if you talk for longer periods of time. Better than e-mail in the sense that you are talking to the person directly.
• E-mail - totally free to use, but can be very inefficient as the person you have e-mailed may take a long time to reply back, and you cannot get a proper feeling of a persons personality and emotions through an e-mail sometimes as you are not talking to them directly.
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) - These are programs such as Skype, these programs are very useful in the way of saving money as it is free to call your contacts so you can talk to them for however long you wish. Plus, if you have a webcam you can basically have a long distance meeting over Skype. This is very useful for businesses as it no longer requires people to travel long distances just to have a meeting, they can now do it over Skype and have the exact same outcome. 
• Memos - These are very good as you can send them to numerous amounts of people  which is very good if you want to send small messages to a large amount of people without individually going to them and telling them which saves a lot of time for other things.

2. In my opinion, the best way to communicate with someone and get your ideas through with the best effect is to talk to them in person as you get to know them better and can potentially get a better outcome from speaking to them in person. 

The second best way to communicate with someone is using programs such as Skype as they are more or less exactly the same as talking to someone in person because if you have a webcam and a microphone, you can more or less talk to them like you would face to face because all of the different aspects are there, you can still see their reactions, they can't perfect anything as they have to reply on the spot to what you say, and you get to see their personalities better.

The third best way would then be by telephone or just by VoIP because you can hear their voice, which is much better than just getting a letter/memo or e-mail

The fourth best would be letter/memo/e-mail as you cannot get a full idea of what the person is like and it can potentially take a long time for them to reply to what you have sent them or they might not reply at all.

3. To give constructive feedback you have to be honest to the person while still giving them a certain amount of respect and giving them ideas on how you think they could better the flaws that you have pointed out and giving them reasons on exactly why you thought what you pointed out was flawed/bad. This is required as if you asked them for constructive feedback, you would want the exact same qualities back.

4. To convey specialist ideas to others who are not into that field, i would make a presentation that would be simplified and descriptive which would be appropriate for the audience that i was given judging by their experience in the topic i am presenting.