Molly used various media technologies in the construction and research stages of her media products. She used Google to research theories and find inspiration from other music videos and packaging designs. YouTube was used to analyze other music videos for ideas and to upload drafts and the final video. Photoshop and iMovie were used to edit photos, design packaging, and construct the music video. PowerPoint and Microsoft Word were used to record and organize research findings. SlideShare and Prezi allowed research to be uploaded to her blog in a visually appealing way. A camera was also used to film the music video and take photos for other media texts.

1. HOW DID YOU USE
MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
IN THE CONSTRUCTION
AND RESEARCH,
PLANNING AND
EVALUATION STAGES?
By Molly Maddison

2. I used google in order to help me with my research for my
media products. For example I used google to search
different theories such as Goodwin, frith and Props. This
allowed me to gain a better understanding of what
different things are used in music videos to help me
generate ideas for my own main product. Google helped
me search things such as how to use different features on
Photoshop to help me generate better ancillary texts (Digi
pack and magazine advert). I used google also to help me
with things such as Lorde’s track album to include on the
back of my Digi pack to make it look more professional
and to also get images for my different research and
ancillary tasks such as a barcode or different images for
my research. I was able to research different Digi packs
and magazine adverts to help me generate ideas for my
own.

3. This was the program that I used when posting the
updates and research of my products this was one of the
most important feature's as it allowed me to record all of
my research and the progress that I had been making. I
decided on this format as it is simple to use and could
access it 24/7 to do work and keep a note of all my ideas
generate throughout the whole process.

4. I used YouTube to do things such as look at
different music videos in order to analyse them
to help me generate a better understanding of
what is included in different music videos
which then overall helped me generate ideas
for my won music video. I used YouTube to
search music videos the same genres as mine
to see the different things they include and
what I could then use for my music video. We
also used YouTube to upload things such as our
music video drafts and the final music video to
which we then could embed into on blogs on
blogger.

5. We used iMovie to
construct our music video
as it was much easier to use
than movie maker and
because we had someone
with a MacBook in our
group it was easy to do and
edit within lessons to help
generate I more
professional looking music
video.

6. I used Photoshop to do things such as edit photos and to
also produce my ancillary texts. I used Photoshop as it’s
the easiest software to use for producing things such as a
magazine advert and Digi pack design. I decided to use
Photoshop as I used it for my AS coursework therefore I
was familiar with it and it was easy for me to use it.

7. I used PowerPoint to generate my different research
findings, so any research I done I recorded some of it on
PowerPoint to which I then either screen shotted and put
onto my blog or I then put onto a slide share. I especially
used PowerPoint for things such as analysing Digi packs
etc., I decided to use PowerPoint as it is a simple and easy
format to use to produce my finding onto and it was easy
to put into slide share. With a lot of past experience using
PowerPoint this also helped me.

8. Microsoft word checked spelling and grammar so anything
I wanted to upload to my blog just as group ideas,
research, analysis’s etc. I put through word before to give
it an automatic grammar and spelling check so that
everything that I uploaded to my blog was correct. I also
used Microsoft word to jot down any ideas as it is an easy
format to do so with no hassle, it also helped as I have
used Microsoft word a lot in the past.

9. I used slide share as a different format to
upload all my research finding planning etc.
to my blog as it looks more appealing to
people instead of just uploaded a lot of text
which looks boring. It also allowed me to
upload my PowerPoints to my blog with easy
instead of screen shotting each slide
individually. I was able to use slide share
easily as I already used it for my AS
coursework.

10. I also used Prezi as a format to
upload all my research, planning
etc. to my blog. This makes my blog
look more appealing and isn’t just
boring with a load of text. It was
also easy for me to use this as I had
past experience using it for my AS
Blog.

11. We used the camera to film all
our music video, to do different
camera shots etc. I also used the
camera to take photos for my
photo shoots of my
actors/models for my other
media texts (Magazine advert
and Digi pack).