How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

1. Evaluation
question 4
How did you use media technologies in
the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?

2. Construction

3. • Adobe Indesign proved itself to be a very useful and versatile
software. I created the template for all of the pages (front
cover, contents page, double page spread) in my magazine
using the resources in Adobe InDesign. This was the main
software I used out of all of them and the one that I used the
most. I also created my billboard advert in InDesign so that I
could move all the image and text freely.
• I used a Pentax x-5 digial camera to take my pictures and put
them on a computer.
Construction

4. Construction
• I manipulated the image of my model using Adobe
Photoshop. In Photoshop I cut the main image out from the
background image so that only my model remained.

5. • For the creation of my my radio advert I used Adobe
audition to manipulate the sounds of the voices in my
radio advert and to put them all together. This was
achieved by layering all of the voices and sound effects
over each other.
Construction

6. • I also used the Internet lots during the construction stage
of my coursework as I downloaded the masthead fonts for
my magazine and billboard advert from dafont.com which
is a free font website. I also used the internet to find
suitable sound effects for my radio advert.
• I used social media such asthroughout my coursework so
that I could organise myself and my model and voice
actors.
Construction

7. Research

8. • The main technology that I used for the research stage of my
product was the Internet. Without the use of the Internet I
would not know what the conventions of a regional magazine,
billboard poster, or radio advert are.
• I would also not know how to use
software's such as InDesign or
Photoshop to the extent that I do
now, watching tutorials on also helped
me with time management because it
allowed me to finish tasks quicker.
Research

9. • I used local government websites so that I could learn
more about my target audience and demographic. This
was very helpful because it allowed me to make
decisions about my magazine, radio advert, and
billboard advert.
Research

10. Planning

11. • I used an app called iScanner on my iPhone to
scan in a brainstorm of magazine ideas that I did
on paper and the whiteboard.
• I used YouTube to look at tutorials on how to use
software's such as Adobe Photoshop and
InDesign before I used them so I would know how
to use it efficiently.
Planning

12. • I used my Blog on Wordpress too gather and make
sense of all the information I gathered, and to also
keep track of what I needed to do.
Planning

13. • To plan the name of my magazine I used the free online survey
website called Survey Monkey to create a survey and distribute
it online.
Planning

14. Evaluation

15. • For the evaluation stage I
used Microsoft power point
and then uploaded it to my
wordpress blog through the
use of slideshare
• I also used the emaze, an
online presentation service
for an evaluation question.
• I also used the online website
Prezi to present one of my
evaluation questions because
I felt that it would make my
presentations more
interesting and add variety to
my blog.
• In the evaluation stage the
final media technology I used
was my wordpress blog to
post all of my evaluation
questions in one place. A
video of this can be seen in
the next slide.
Evaluation

16. Evaluation A video of me using Prezi