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

2. Wordpress
Wordpress is an online company that provides
anyone with the chance of creating their own blog,
throughout the year I have used my blog to display
my coursework.
A useful feature within Wordpress blogs can
Wordpress is that you also provide a great
can customise your own platform for receiving
blogs style by selecting audience feedback
Wordpress provides the themes and devising via polls and
opportunity to publish categories, therefore comments, this has
images, text, audio files, and once I put the time in to allowed me to make
videos. This was extremely organize my categories it informed decisions on
useful this year due to the became easy to find both my trailer and
fact that I had to work on lots previous bits of work, target audience, as
of different mediums to form e.g. research, to well as get feedback
my ancillary texts and reference when any from my teacher
product. problems arose. easily.

3. Microsoft
Power Point.
Throughout this process I have used power point as a
presentation software to get some of my research and
evaluations across. PowerPoint is especially useful as you can
post them on Wordpress in two different ways; you can use
online software such as slide share to insert a basic skeleton
or you can time animations and sound to insert the power
point as a video.
Publisher Word
This Microsoft programme provides an easy way to Arguably one of the simplest
produce JPEG files that can be posted as images on programmes from Microsoft an
my blog. Due to this I heavily used publisher to publish my least used, the only time I
my research so that I could easily edit it and see the really used word was to mock
final product before posting it. I also used it to initially up any posts that I was going to
mock up my poster and magazine cover, as it is much write so that I could use spell
simpler to use than it's adobe equivalents, however it's and grammar check to prevent
end product isn't quite as professional. silly mistakes.

4. Adobe
Premier Pro.
The core part of my project has been the assembling and filming
of a trailer, therefore the adobe editing software premier pro was
key to my construction. I used this programme to edit camera
work within my trailer e.g. duration/speed, as well as the
transitions between shots. Premier pro also gave me the
opportunity to edit sound to go as a backing track, however I did
end up scrapping this due to the fact that it didn't in keep with
the feel of the trailer.
Photoshop. InDesign. After Effects.
This programme was I used InDesign to create As an adobe product this was
extremely useful in editing my magazine cover due to easily the most complex but
images for my ancillary texts the fact that it can produce also one of the best, I used it to
including changing colour, a very professional looking create my ident and my title for
saturation and removing product and has all the my trailer, the programme would
background. I actually tools that you could need, also have been useful for the
designed my poster e.g. text, shapes, image idea I had of using a green
completely on after effects editing. screen although that didn't
after a publisher trial run. materialise.

5. Internet Explorer
Internet explorer was my choice in server over
Google-chrome, it provided the backbone for me
to find my research both by gaining primary data
and existing products.
Internet explorer also Through this browser I also
provided me the managed to upload
opportunity to gain different stages of my trailer
feedback on my product and alternative idents to
and to get the YouTube, this allowed
Combined with Google images, views/preferences of my another way of getting
internet explorer provided me target audience in feedback and a much
with the opportunity to find relation to decisions that larger platform for people to
existing products to analyse I was going to make watch my trailer. This gave
existing magazines, posters and through online polls, the possibility of gaining
trailers, identifying trends an questionnaires and even feedback from those who
patterns that my products Facebook groups. didn't know me or my
should conform to. previous work.