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

2. Blogger
• I used blogger to create a blog onto which I could
upload all of my coursework. At times I also
created my work actually within blogger, where
only typing something up was needed as part of
the task.
• This has helped amazingly as it is a simple and
fast way of getting all my coursework in the same
place, and it lays it all out in a clean and simple
way.
• However, it is a bit more plain than other types of
blogs.

3. Digital SLR camera
• Nikon D60 Digital SLR Camera
• I was going to just use my iPhone to record the video,
however when I spoke to the model she told me that
she had this camera I could borrow
• This helped tremendously, as the camera quality was
much better and allowed me to try techniques I never
would have been able to attempt with just a phone.
• I used this camera to record all video, and the photos
for use in the ancillary tasks.
• This made me more creative, as I was able to do things
I had never done before and expand my knowledge.

4. Excel
• I used Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet in
which I could create a diary to keep on track of
the tasks, as well as pie charts for my audience
feedback results
• Excel is a very simple program to use which
helped me, because having a diary to hand which
told me what I needed to do next stopped me
from worrying and then slowing down in my
production.
• However, it isn’t very creative, as everything
within it is basic.

5. Glogster
• I used this to create a mood board, from which I could
focus on the key ideas for my products and make sure I
stick to what I had planned.
• It was very beneficial, as it is a creative way to get the
information needed so I can keep looking at it for more
info, plus it is easy to embed into the blog for everyone
else to see.
• However, when put into the blog it sometimes doesn’t
work well, as the text can look small and the images
can be misshapen.
• This made me more creative as I had to think about
how to overcome these problems.

6. Google
• I used Google a lot within this project, for various
reasons. Whenever I needed an image to reference for
my own products, it came from Google, and whenever
I wasn’t sure what to do with a certain product I
researched on Google in order to gain inspiration.
• Google is the best search engine to use in my opinion,
as it is quick and gives you a wide variety of results.
• However, it did stop me from looking for other types of
sources, because finding things online became too
easy.

7. InDesign
• I used InDesign to create my digipak.
• I measured up the images to the right
dimensions using the CD template provided,
and had the opportunity to see how the
digipak looked when put together.
• This helped immensely, as I was able to make
sure everything was right before saving it, and
once the images are exported it then becomes
simple to import it into other programs.

8. iPhone
• I used my iPhone to contact the model
and make sure that everything was sorted
for the shooting of the video.
• This helped greatly because I didn’t need
to worry about everything being ready for
the day, because I could find out at any
point how things were going, and
whether there would be any problems
with the model getting to the location.

9. Photoshop
• I used Photoshop to edit all of my images for use in the
digipak, and to create my magazine advert.
• I decided to make the advert in Photoshop instead of
Indesign because I had better knowledge of this
program and knew that I would be able to do certain
things much better than I would with Indesign.
• This made me more creative, because I learned how to
do things that I would have never have tried otherwise,
and I feel it created a much better quality product than
I would ever have been able to produce otherwise.

10. Pixton
• I used Pixton to look at Genre Conventions
• I decided to use this program because I had very
limited experience with it, and wanted to learn
more
• I feel this helped me because I was able to gain
knowledge about a new program, therefore
making me more creative.
• However, I wasn’t particularly skilled with it, so I
decided to just use it for that one task, not
wanting to lower the quality of the rest of my
work.

11. PowerPoint
• I used Powerpoint for a lot of different tasks, because it
is a very simple product to use, and can be shared in a
variety of ways
• Although there are things you can customise within it,
PowerPoint is probably one of the least interesting
technologies used in my project, and if I could have
done the coursework again I would have used it less
• However, it is a very good program to use when you
need to do something quickly and make sure it has a
clean presentation, so I don’t feel it has lowered the
overall quality of my coursework, even if it isn’t too
creative.

12. Premiere pro
• I used Premiere Pro to create my music video
• I have prior experience with the program through
recreational use, so I knew how to use the program to
create a high-standard video
• However, despite my prior knowledge I still learned a lot
through the use of the program in this project, because I
tried things I had never done before. The use of effects was
my greatest lesson from this project, as I’d never really
dared to touch them before, but in my music video I used
them a lot and was amazed at the results.
• Therefore using the program has made me a lot more
creative, and has opened my eyes to different approaches
you can take when completing a project like this.

13. Prezi
• I used Prezi to complete a lot of tasks within
my coursework, because I had prior
experience with it and knew it was good for
uploading multimedia and being able to write
about it.
• It is a simple program to use and creates high-
level results, but it does take a while to make
everything perfect it each Prezi document.

14. Slideshare
• I used Slideshare to upload all the Word and
PowerPoint documents onto the blog
• The program is very simple and quick to use,
and was very helpful as the embed option
works perfectly with Blogger
• However, there isn’t much you can say about
it creatively, because you don’t have any
editing options within the website

15. SurveyMonkey
• I used this program to create and collect the
information from the audience feedback surveys
• It was very beneficial to use, as they are easy to
create, easy for the target audience to access so
they can complete the surveys, and the results
are easily collected
• Using this program did make me more creative,
as the website doesn’t create the pie charts for
you, so I had to copy all the results into Excel and
then create the pie charts from there, increasing
my knowledge of both systems

16. USB
• I used a USB to collect all of my materials in
order for me to use them whenever they are
needed
• It was extremely beneficial because I was able
to access everything from the one point,
which meant that nothing was lost during any
point of the coursework

17. YouTube
• I used YouTube to access any video materials I needed,
and to upload my own music video in order to embed
it into the blog
• This is an amazing program to use because everything
that I searched for in order to aid my work within this
coursework was there, and it is really easy to use
• However, uploading my video onto the system was
awful, it took a few hours and once it was done the
video quality had been cut down, so if I had the chance
I’d find an alternate service to upload my video onto