The document discusses the various media technologies used by the author at different stages of their project. These included Blogger for blogging, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for creating graphics, Premiere Pro for editing video, Prezi for presentations, Animoto for videos, SlideShare for sharing presentations, YouTube for uploading videos, Safari as a web browser, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and Scribbless as an online checklist. The author found these technologies helped make their blog more media rich and presented their information and findings in a more interesting and effective way.

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

2. List of media technology used:
• Blogger
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Premiere Pro
• Prezi
• Animoto
• SlideShare
• Youtube
• Safari
• Scribbless
• Social Network e.g. Facebook/Twitter

3. Blogger
Blogger was the main resource I used for
making and updating my blog. I decided to use
this as I think it is one of the most efficient
blogging websites, and I was familiar with it
after using it for the majority of last year.
Every time i had an update on my work, I made
sure to document it onto my blog, in order to
give the viewer a clear understanding of my
thought processes and progression. I made
sure to update my blog quite regularly, in
order to keep on top of my time management.

4. Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is the program I used when making both my final ancillary
tasks; my poster and magazine front cover. I am very familiar with
Photoshop after using it during AS and in my other A-level subjects,
therefore I was very comfortable with using it for my final products
as I was confident they could be made as successful as possible. I
used the tools on Photoshop to my full creative ability, in order to
get the best outcome for my final products.

5. Adobe Illustrator
I wanted to use other creative software as well as Adobe Photoshop,
therefore I also used Adobe Illustrator. I am not as confident with
Adobe Illustrator as I am with Photoshop, therefore I only used it as a
one-off to make my institution logo, and left all the main work for
Photoshop.

6. Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro is the software I used to create my final film trailer.
After filming all my shots with the Canon Camera, I uploaded them
onto Premiere Pro in order to edit all of the shots to create the
finalized trailer. I didn’t make a moving image last year, therefore I
was fairly inexperienced with using premiere pro, however, by doing
my reconstruction tasks earlier in the academic year, I managed to
gain some practice experience.

7. Prezi
Prezi is an online software I used during my research and planning. I
like prezi because it is a fun way to present information, and is a very
effective alternative to just uploading text onto my blog, as it has a
lot of interesting visual transitions and effects; making it entertaining
to the viewer. I have used prezi a lot of times in the past, therefore I
was able to use it with a lot of ease to get some very effective
results.

8. Animoto
I used animoto a couple of times throughout my blog, but the first
time I used it was for my Pitch presentation earlier in the year. I knew
my peers would be giving me feedback for my pitch, therefore I
wanted to make it as entertaining as possible for them, and I felt as
though animoto would be a very effective tool to use. I really like
using animoto, as it works more as a video than a presentation, and it
looks really creative.

9. SlideShare
Slideshare is an online tool used to present and publish my
PowerPoint presentations online (including this one!). It is a really
simple and effective tool to use, and I like to use it to upload
presentations rather than having large bodies of text on my blog.

10. Youtube
Youtube is what I used to upload my final trailer before uploading it
to my blog. I chose to use youtube because I like that you can change
the quality size to 1080p, as it is very high quality and I wanted my
film trailer to look as professional as possible.

11. Safari
As the majority of my work was done on Apple Mac computers, I
used Safari as my internet provider for all my research and planning.
Safari is faster and more energy efficient than other browsers,
therefore I enjoyed using it a lot more than internet explorer, Firefox
or Google chrome.

12. Social Networking
Social Networking came in very useful when doing work on my blog. I
used Facebook chats/group chats to get feedback and response from
my friends, as well as arranging times and dates to film. I also used
Twitter to post my online survey to my followers as a way to get the
public to fill it out and give me audience feedback and responses.

13. Scribbless
Scribbless is an online checklist that I used at the start of the project
in order to refer back to it and be able to update my progress
digitally. I felt like this would be a much more effective way than
doing it by hand and uploading scans/different photos every time I
had ticked something off.

14. Overall, I have enjoyed using a range of
technology to make my blog as media rich as
possible, as it created a much more
interesting and effective way of presenting
my information and findings.