The student used various media technologies at different stages of their construction and research project. Emaze and Blogger were used early on to create slideshows, posters, and maintain a blog to organize work. Time Toast helped present findings on music video history chronologically. Survey Monkey was used to design and distribute anonymous feedback questionnaires, though it was limited to 10 questions. Prezi, PowerPoint, and Slideshare created engaging presentations. Photoshop edited pictures for a digipak album and poster. iMovie was initially easy to edit video clips but syncing audio became challenging.

1. How Did You Use Media Technologies in
the Construction and Research Planning
and Evaluation Stages

2. Emaze
I used Emaze 2 or 3 times on my blog. This was because I wanted to use a variety of
programmes to make my blog look interesting. Emaze let me create slideshows and posters
which was what I wanted to do. However, when using Emaze I found that trying to put a lot
of information onto slideshow/poster it meant I had to make the text rather small which
meant it was hard to read.
Blogger
I used blogger throughout this project as it was a good way of me keeping all my work in
one place. This was good as it allowed me to find my work easier and also made it easy
when teachers were marking or looking at my work. Blogger is an online website which
meant that I could access my blog from school or home which meant that I could still do
work at home. Blogger also allowed me to add labels onto my work so that when someone
went on my blog they could easily find what they were looking for. This made looking for
certain tasks easier.
Time Toast
I used Time Toast at the start of my research. I used this site as it was easy for me
to present my findings about the history of music videos. It allowed me to
present them in chronological order which meant when I looked back at it, it was
easy to read.

3. Slideshare
Prezi was a presentation website that I found myself using a lot throughout the research and
planning tasks. This was because it was easy to use and was a different way of creating a
slideshow. This is because it didn’t just move from one slide to another it jumped from one to
the next. This was good as it was more engaging to people who were viewing it,
Survey Monkey
I used survey monkey so that I could get anonymous feedback from people.
The website was easy to use and you got to design your own questionnaire
with different question choices e.g multiple choice and comment boxes. After
you had made the questionnaire you could embed it onto another website or
send to other people to complete. However, you couldn’t add more than 10
questions which means some questions had to be linked together in some
way.
Prezi
In some tasks I used Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations. When I wanted to
upload them onto my blog I uploaded it onto slideshare them embedded that onto
my blog. This was one of the easiest sites that I used as all you needed to do was
upload the PowerPoint onto slideshare and you were done. This meant it was easy
for people to read and look at the presentation.

4. Spiderscribe
I used photoshop to edit pictures so that I could make a digipak album and a digipak poster.
Photoshop has lots of different tools and features that allowed me to edit my pictures and
make sure that they were good quality. Another good thing was that I could edit my digipak
album and poster to look similar which meant they created synergy. As I have not used
photoshop much before I forgot what most of the tools do so it took me a while to get used to
it and what everything did.
I Movie
I used I movie to edit my footage and make my music video. At first I found I move easy to
use as you were just putting your clips in the correct order and making them the correct
length. It was easy to use mainly because there was’t much you could do in terms of editing
the clip. For example there were a few things e.g making the clip faster/slower, freeze frame,
split screen and changing the colour. It also allowed you to fade clips and place one over
another. All of these tools were very basic. Later on in the editing stages I realised there were
issues. One main issues was trying to match the lip syncing with the music. I realised that
everytime I adjusted one clip or added a new clip in most or all of my clips would be out of
sync. This meant that a lot of time was spent making sure they were all in time and sync with
the music.
Photoshop
In some tasks I used Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations. When I
wanted to upload them onto my blog I uploaded it onto slideshare them
embedded that onto my blog. This was one of the easiest sites that I used as all
you needed to do was upload the PowerPoint onto slideshare and you were
done. This meant it was easy for people to read and look at the presentation.