Mobile Me and You Project (Photo Editing Apps) Interviews Part 17|Mobile Reputations Course| AD&PR Lab
In the context of “New Consuming Trends” a course of Panteion University, taught by Mrs Betty Tsakarestou, our team (Shooters) participated in a research project called Mobile Me and You, following the Mobile Collaborative Consumption and Sharing Economy trends.The subject of the project concerns the relationship of Millennials with their mobile phones and their impact on the society and on the market. We decided to focus our research on Photo Editing Apps Applications.
The interviews was an important way to learn how everyday people are using the editing apps and what they offer to their work. We decided to follow a common questionnaire in order to analyze answers from the same questions. The questions were selected by our team members and we tried to organise them as easy as possible for the people who would anwer them. They were made by 10 general questions and 10 more into editing apps. Thats the complete questionnaire that we used :
1.Describe your day with your mobile. How many hours during the
day (or night) do you estimate you use your phone? Some
smartphones now offer us this data (screen time). Have you been
surprised when your read your actual screen time? Have you tried to
eliminate your screen time, after you started getting such accurate
data about your mobile screen consumption?
2. How do you feel if for any reason we took the mobile phone away from you?
3. Do you use any complementary gadgets?
4. Do you favor your mobile over other devices?
5. Do you like to share stuff with others digitally via your mobile apps?
6. Do you use your mobile when you are with friends? Teams? In a
specific Community? For fun? For work? How that makes you feel?
7. Is your phone making you feel connected or disconnected?
8. Have you used sharing apps/ platforms/ services such as airbnb/
bike sharing/ car sharing etc.. How do you think or feel about such
interactions where you have to trust strangers?
9. Do you follow any influencers? If yes, in what platform (eg.instagram etc) Do you follow them on your mobile apps mainly? Can
you show me your favorite influencers profiles on your mobile? What
are your thoughts on influencers?
10. Do you feel like you share the same habits with your friends
regarding the usage of your phone?
About editing apps
- Which do you believe is the most important app?
- Do you know many editing apps? Is it necessary to pay for them or they are
free to use? - Are you using editing apps daily?
- Do you trust your mobile phone camera or you need to use edit apps in order to post a photo in social media?
- Do you know any photo edit communities?
- How important are the editing apps for you?
- Do you believe that the quality of the photos would have been the same without editing?
- Do you use more than one editing app in your mobile phone?
- Do you believe that an editing app is easy to use if you are not a
professional?
The first candidate that was willing to help us is Michalis Malandrakis. Michalis is a 22 years old amateur director and he studies also in Panteion University. In comparison with the rest of our interviewers michalis was the one that answered based on video editing apps and that much on photo editing. More specifically, he told us that he does not uses his mobile more than 3 hours per day and he has no problem if someone would take his smartphone for him. Moreover, he revealed us that he is addicted with his digital camera which he uses many times while directing a video or taking some inspirational photos.
According to his answers on the editing app questions, he told us that filmora and adobe premiere bro are the best in editing films from your mobile and he mentioned that if you want a good version a filmora you have to pay some money for the pro version. Although, he makes video with the help of an editing app only twice per week, he admits that they are very important because as he said he is active on video making production and sometimes mobile editing app offer him the ability to deliver a video faster. Furthermore, he talked about his preference on digital cameras and the need of editing apps for videos or photos in a smartphone. In our last question about the difficulty of a non professional to use editing apps he told us that it depends on each app.
Τhe Shooters
Team: Agis Lamprakis, Iakobos Vlachos, petrosmix
Professor: Betty Tsakarestou
For the other parts of the interviews click the links below:
