The student used various media technologies throughout the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages of their project. Blogger and Prezi were used to store work and present findings during research and planning. Sony Vegas and Photoshop were used to edit video and images during construction. Phones, snipping tool, Blogger, and Prezi were used to present and store evaluation work. The student concludes that these media technologies helped enable the success of their project.

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

2. Research and planning
The research and planning process required me
to look into different genres including my own
chosen genre . I had to look at real media
products before I could plan my own . I used
different media products to help me with this ;

3. Blogger
We had to use blogger through out a lot of our
research and planning. We mainly used it to store
our work on but it helped us as we could keep
looking back at our ideas and see how we changed
them and what we could do to improve the ideas
that we already had . Blogger was also a use full
website to use so that we could do our past student
analysis . We could look at their work through
blogger and this made the information easily
accessible .

4. Prezi was also a very useful website to use when
doing our research and planning . I used Prezi a
lot to present my findings on . Much like Blogger
this was a really good website for storing my
information on so that I could look back at
previous ideas and see how I could improve
them . Prezi is an easy way to transfer files on
the internet such as Blogger as you can use
embedded codes to do this .

5. Phones
We often used our phones to take pictures for
evidence of our work . We used phones because
they are a great device which are easily accessible
and easy to use . I can easily upload my photos from
my phone onto my blog as I have the Blogger app on
my phone . This makes course work easy to do and
makes it easy for me to update my blog in order to
look back at my research .

6. Websites
Google- I use this research engine so that I can find
the information that I need . This is a reliable fast
source that has endless amounts of data that I can
compare in order to get the best result .
YouTube- We used YouTube so that we could find
and view different music from genres . We could
also make sure that we did not copy the original
video by using this search engine . It is a very
helpful website which is also reliable . I used this
website in order to find out how popular my genre
was for my research stage .

7. UK tribes – We used this website in order to
find particular information on music . This was
a good accurate website that gave us helpful
figure on how popular music was .
BBC Class test- I used this website in order to
find out if all the classes liked our genre of
music that we had chosen . This helped me to
create my target audience .

8. Construction process
• In this stage, I used all my work from my
research and planning process in order to
make my own music video digipak and
magazine advert :

9. Sony Vegas
We used an editing software calluses Sony Vegas which
helped us to edit our whole video together . We
managed to use a whole load of different effects when
using this software and was able to make a precise
video . The best part about Sony Vegas was being able
to shorten clips and add effects to them such as slow
motion . This helped us to hit our impact points with in
our music video .

10. Video FX- we found that this editing tool in particular
was very helpful because we could put flickers and
grains where we wanted them . In particular this
helped the Emo scene to look realistic . This also
helped us when we had to combine the rabbit whole
and the Charlie and the Chocolate factory scene
together . This was also very good as we had to white
balance a lot of the scenes in order to make them look
smoother . We also used this tool a lot to make the
colour quality better as we were able to change the
contrast and saturation .

11. Photoshop
We used Photoshop for our ancillary task . This was a key feature for
when we did our digipak as we needed to edit the photos in order to
get the right picture and to put all four parts of the digipak together .
This programme has tools that help to get the effects of the picture
right as well as precise cuts of pictures . To make the precise cuts we
used a tool called the quick selection tool. This made it very easy to cut
our images out of a picture we had already taken . The computer
accurately cut around the shape so that we got the shape that we
wanted and in our case the characters that we wanted to use out of the
full picture . We also used the adjustment tool which allowed me to
make a black and white effect on our characters .

12. Cameras
• We used a HD Panasonic camera to film our main product
with . This camera used an SD card instead of a tape and was
very easy to use . This was a precise camera that captured
things with great focus . We had a good zoom on this camera
as well which enabled us to zoom in and out on character in
order to get the shots that we needed . Thi camera was also
good because we could watch our clips back . This meant that
we could get clips that we were happy with because if we
watched the clip back and wasn’t happy with it then we could
then re film that part .

13. Smoke machine
• We used a smoke machine for our music video
. We used this in the Charlie and the chocolate
factory scene in order to add to the effects of
the crazy themes . This made smoke when
Lewis walked out of the wardrobe which
helped us to crate the effect that we wanted .

14. Evaluation
After finishing my product I had to
evaluate all of my work . To do this
I also had to use media
technologies in order to present
my work;

15. Phones
• Much like for the Research and planning
process we used phones for the evaluation so
that we could take pictures of the information
that we needed to put on Prezi and Blogger .
This was easy because phones are so
accessible and easy to use .

16. Snipping tool
I used the snipping tool a lot whilst doing my
evaluation questions so that I could get clips of
my main products and add them into my
evaluation question . The snipping tool was
really use full because it allowed me to get the
evidence that I needed to put into my evaluation
questions .

17. Blogger
• Much like every other stage, I use Blogger in
order to put the evaluation question onto the
internet and my Coursework storage . This
means that I can look back at my work and see
where I have improved and where I need to
improve . This also helps me to keep all my
work in one place so that it is easier to store
and mark .

18. Prezi
• Prezi was a huge help when it came to
creating my evaluation question. I found that
especially with my first and second evaluation
question I used Prezi a lot . This is because it is
easy to use for big power points . With my
evaluation questions being so long I found
that it was a lot easier to use that using power
point its self . It is also easier to put on my
blog a I can use the embedded code .

19. Conclusion
In conclusion, I feel that the different media
technologies have helped me with my project .
With out this technology I wouldn’t of been able
to achieve what I have done today . I’m
particular I feel that the Camera and internet
websites helped me the most as it enabled me
to create my own work to the best that I could .
The internet allowed me to both find
information that I needed and compare it with
other genres in order to get my audience right .