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

2. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
The first technology that I must
mention is blogger. With blogger I
have been able to post all my work
in one location which is accessible
to anyone, it also allowed me to
format the style and HTML of the
webpage which enabled the inserts of
plug ins by copy and pasting embed
code for example this PowerPoint and
the other PowerPoint and YouTube
video player.

3. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
In my mind one of the key technologies I utilized when
creating my media product was social media. it
effectively created a platform for me to engage with my
group members and collaborate on work and ideas . it also
helped collect quantive data with the aid of sharing
posts through sites like twitter which we used to give
links to our online survey (more detail on next slide).
We also used social media to collect qualitive data by
sending detailed questions through private messaging on
apps such as Facebook. Social media also helped us get in
direct contact with ‘Pulled Apart by Horses’ (our band)
and get permission for song use, feedback and run ideas
off them. One other way we utilized social media was by
sharing our work to collect feedback on sites like
Instagram

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
To create and analyse our
surveys for our research we
used survey monkey. Survey
monkey was very useful as it
records result for me and
formats the data into a bar
chart so all we had to do was
design the survey and spread it
on social media.

5. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
The most essential piece of technology we
needed and used for production and research
was a dlsr camera. With this very versatile
camera we could record footage in various
lighting conditions and perform pretty much
any camera movement we wanted. Our primary
use for the camera was to record our music
video, this was where we had to do the more
complex camera use; by this I mean we had to
balance iso/aperture/lighting so the video
had a consistent “style" and quality and be
very aware of what framing we used so the end
product was more impressive. The secondary
use we found for the camera was to record
interviews we carried out for our research.

6. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
Another technology we used was
lighting rigs. With these we could
improve the quality of our footage by
lighting it better and lowering iso
and by doing that it causes less
noise and a better looking image. On
our interviews we used high key
lighting because we wanted clear and
simple footage of high quality. In
our music video we experimented with
things like strobes and contrasting
between super bright and dark footage
to make our video more exciting.

7. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
I also used 2 programs which were
important to processing photos and
videos, they were premier pro and
photoshop. Photoshop was used to
design and make the advert and
digipak. I also used it to create
the textual analysis diagrams.
Premier pro was used primarily to
edit the music video and colour
correct it and it was also used to
edit question 1 of the evaluation
and the interviews we did for our
research.

8. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
POWERPOINT AND PUBLISHER WERE MY BREAD AND BUTTER WHEN
IT CAME TO WORD PROCESSING APPLICATIONS THAT I USED IN
THIS PROJECT. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS THAT
POWERPOINT IS USED TO CREATE SLIDE SHOWS AND PRESENT
INFORMATION THAT WAY WHEREAS PUBLISHER IS USED TO MAKE
THINGS LIKE WIREFRAMES AND VISUAL DESIGNS. MY USE OF
POWERPOINT WAS TO DISPLAY MY INTIAL IDEAS, RESEARCH,
PLANNING AS WELL AS DISPLAY MY SELF EVALUATION (LIKE
IN THE SLIDE YOUR READING RIGHT NOW). MY USE OF
PUBLISHER WAS MAINLY USED IN PLANING TO CREATE TABLES
FOR RISK ASSESMENT AND SHOTLISTS ASWELL AS MAKING
DESIGNS FOR MY PLANNING STAGE. I THEN USED THE WEBSITE
‘SLIDESHARE”TO POST ALL OF MY WORK FROM PUBLISHER AND
POWERPOINT ON TO MY BLOG.

9. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?
IN CONCLUSION I THINK I USED A BROAD RANGE OF MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES IN EACH STAGE OF MY PROJECT AND I THINK
THE WAY IN WHICH I USED ALL THE TECHNOLOGIES WAS
VERY EFFECTIVE. IN REFLECTION IF I DIDN’T HAVE THESE
MEDIA TECHNOLGIES I WOULD HAVE TO WORK EXTREMELY
HARD TO GET ANYWHERE NEAR WHERE I GOT WITH THEM AND
IN SOME CASES PARTS IN THE PROJECT WOULD BE
IMPOSSIBLE.