The document discusses the various media technologies used at different stages of creating media products. Microsoft Word was used to create questionnaires, Microsoft PowerPoint was used for evaluations, mood boards, and displaying questionnaire feedback. YouTube and Muzu.tv were used for music video research. Blogger was used to create a blog to document the entire process. Slideshare was used to upload presentations and documents to the blog. Photoshop was used for editing video footage and designing packaging. PicMonkey was used to edit images. Webeden.net was used to build a website as part of an ancillary task. Various media technologies provided useful features for planning, layout, and sharing work at different stages of the process.

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

2. I found it important and useful to use different media technologies in the development of my
tasks. By using the multiple platforms I was able to learn how to use them and know what to do
if I chose to use them in future tasks. I used media technologies including.
www.webeden.co.uk
Microsoft PowerPoint
www.muzu.tv www.picmonkey.com
Microsoft Word
Photoshop
www.blogger.com
www.slideshare.net
www.youtube.com Adobe Photoshop

3. I used Microsoft Word to create questionnaire documents as I found this the easiest media
technology to do so. I know how to use this document and its features so it didn’t take me long
to create a questionnaire which I then printed out to give to m audience. The features Microsoft
Word has makes it easy for me to layout the questionnaire and use tools such as a tick box and
numbers for the questions. Here is the tool bar at the top of Microsoft Word and shows the
features I used to create the documents.
Font size
Centre text
Font
Numbering
Bold
Colour text
Underline

4. Examples of how I have used Microsoft Word

5. I used Microsoft PowerPoint to create the evaluations, mood boards, spider diagrams and to
set out the questionnaire feedback. The PowerPoint document enables me to move images
easily and place exactly where I want them, to create the layout I want. I inserted a table so I
could easily set out the results from the questionnaire which helped me with decisions. I already
knew how to use Microsoft PowerPoint before the task, however now I can use it fluidly and
know what else I can use the document for. Here is the tool bar at the top of Microsoft
PowerPoint which features the controls I used to create the document.
Centre text Arrows
Font Text size
Bold Text box
Underline
I inserted a table to set out the feedback from the questionnaires by
going to Insert on the tool bar, then Table, then click on Insert table
and this small box appears. I then chose the number of columns and
rows I needed and pressed ok, which then the table appeared on the
document.

6. Examples of how I have used Microsoft PowerPoint

7. Youtube was the main research source for my music video as I watched numerous music videos
via this website and it has every music video I needed. I was able to watch and pause the music
videos to gather information from them to give me inspiration for my music video. However, at
school Youtube isn’t accessible as that website is blocked so I used muzu.tv to put links onto my
blog so I could see them at school. I can view the same things I want to on both websites so
choosing one or the other was not a problem. I found that using these websites to watch music
videos enabled me to pick up on camera angles, editing techniques and how the challenge the
forms and conventions of other music videos, which helped me with my own.
Browse
Artist/Song title
Music video
Section finder
Timing
Pause/Play Full screen

8. My blog is the most important thing to get right as this is what all my work is put onto. Using
blogger wasn’t a problem as I used this website on last years tasks so I was able to get straight
in to it this time. The functions of the blog allowed me to post as man times as I needed to and
edit the posts in case I found mistakes after publishing them.
Here shows that I have added a link to the website ancillary task. This made it
easy for me to get onto the website quickly and it also is connected with the
blog and what I mention in the blog.
I also added links to other peoples blogs so I can gather inspiration and research
from them. I have the teacher as she sometimes posts work for us to be getting
on with on her blog so we know what to do and also a student who has already
done this task. I found it useful to have her blog as I could check I was on the
right lines with my own blog. Having m classes blogs on here helped me to
realise if I was behind on any of the tasks seeing how ahead they were. I named
these links Useful People so I know what they are.
The Blog Archive is automatically on the blog and sets out all my posts in this
small diary like links. It tells me how many posts I have done in what months and
allows me to click on a previous post instead of scrolling through all the posts
which can take up lots of time doing so. I checked this blog archive regularly to
check I have posted enough times on the current month and if I realised I posted
very little I would do some research or more work I can post about to keep my
blog updated and running. Overall I have done 156 blog posts which are all
relevant to the research, planning and creation of my media products.

9. I added a relevant title to I previewed some of the posts
every post I did so I knew before publishing them to see how
what each specific post This button is to publish they looked before I published
was about if I needed to the post I had just them. It was mostly posts including
find the post on the blog written for it to go onto images so I could decide if they
archive. my blog where were too small or too big for the
everyone can view it. post.
I put in bold pieces of I added a lot of images to my blog so
text was more the images button was very useful to
important or to add me. All I had to do was click on the
bold headings to bits of button, chose the image file, pick the
text so the whole post appropriate size for the image, chose
made sense. where I wanted it to be placed then
click on upload and it shows up on our
I could add links onto a post when you publish it.
word I put, however I
didn’t use this button as I could write as much as I
before I just copied and wanted in the text box
pasted the link onto the and this is what posts to
post. the blog.

10. Slideshare was a very useful website which I used to upload PowerPoint presentations and
Word documents to my blog. I used this website last ear so I already knew how to use this
website before obtaining the task.
To upload a document to slideshare I clicked on the orange
upload button or if I needed to uploaded more than one
document to slideshare then I could click the blue upload
button. I then chose the file/s I wanted uploading and they
started uploading which took them just a few minutes each.
Then to find the uploaded document I went to my account on
the toolbar and clicked on My Uploads and chose the
document I wanted to upload to m blog.
On top of the document I’d chose and clicked on there are
buttons like this. To embed the document to my blog I clicked
embed, then copy, and then right clicked and pasted on my
blog post. I previewed the blog post before I published it to
make sure the document was embedded and if it had I
published the post.

11. I used Adobe Photoshop to complete my main task which is the music video. I used this to
create and edit my footage into the music video I wanted to make. The functions of Adobe
Photoshop allowed me to use many editing techniques and develop skills and knowledge about
the media technology. It helped me plan the story boards as I knew what this media technolog
can do therefore I can work around m shots to use the multiple features it offers. I realised it
offers a black and white selection, so to emphasise the past I edited those shots to black and
white. Also knowing I can include fades into the editing gave me much confidence that the
narrative I wanted to portray would make sense.
The video footage
M video footage storage space Video footage
plays here
placed to create
the music video
Sound
The effects storage space
Photoshop enabled me to create the digi pack. I was able to chose the size which I worked out
by measuring the CD case as 126mm by 121mm using International paper. I placed the image I
was using onto the editing space and added the text to the image. It was simple to do and it
helped me plan to the dimensions of the images and text.

12. Using picmonkey.com I was able to edit the images I took for the digi pack and website. I found
out that too much editing looks too fake and too little editing can result in a boring image. I
found the balance and the editing I did to the images became the image I used overall. This
website helped towards planning the layout of the digi pack as the features on the website
include cropping and using colours.
Here is the image before editing.
Here is the image after editing.
As you can see the difference between the two images is massive. I cropped the image so the
feature of the image was in line with the rule of thirds. The website helped me plan the layout
of the digi pack as I placed around with the cropping tool and finally it came to a layout using
the rule of thirds which came effective in the final media product.

13. Webeden.net is a website to create a website. I used this media technology in the construction
of the website I had to make as one of the ancillary tasks. I had never been on this website
before the start of this task, however, I easily found my way around the website and discovered
its features I could use.
I used the website to add images on to as I was able to upload from m files I chose some images
of the artist and relevant images to be shown on the website to the audience.
I also used the website to create a layout which I new was the forms and conventions of real
media websites. Columns were easy to put into place and the editing of the website was simple.
It enabled me to chose colours and font styles which I was happy with and created a website
which was functional for the audience to use as a real media product.

14. Media technologies are vital when it comes to constructing, researching, planning and
evaluating media products. There would be no media without the media technologies so the
many ones today have helped me with doing everything right up to now, as I wouldn’t be
writing this evaluation without the Microsoft PowerPoint technology. The numerous media
technology I have used has varied my imagination and broadened my knowledge and
understanding of constructing, researching, planning and evaluating media products.