1. Question 4: How did you use media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation stages?
2. Research and planning
Below: One of the useful webpages that aided
our research, ‘Teen Health’
• For the research and planning stages which
were instrumental in helping us create the
main and ancillary tasks, I’d say the internet
was the most useful technology because it
provided us with usual websites such as ‘Care
UK’ and ‘Teen Health’ that gave us the
facts/statistics we needed in order to make
our work authentic and promote the dangers
of eating disorders to our intended audience
successfully
• It also allowed us to research into different
radio stations and broadcasting channel’s
remits; this eventually lead to us evaluating a
series such as BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV , Chanel 4 and
BBC Three and choosing Chanel 4 as it best Above: One of the useful webpages that aided
represented our chosen audience our research, ‘Teen Health’
3. YouTube
• YouTube also proved a useful technology because it
acted as another form of research; I was able to use
YouTube to find documentaries of a similar topic to
the one we created in order to explore different
codes and conventions
Above: One of eating disorder/body image Above: One of eating disorder documentaries I
pressure documentaries I found on found on YouTube, ‘Teen Truth: An inside look
YouTube, ‘Teens in Action’ at body image’
4. PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• These three software's were
instrumental in recording our
findings
Above: Print screen of my research in
• We used PowerPoint to elaborate PowerPoint
our findings in detail and present
everything that needed to go onto
the blog.
• Word was particularly good for
creating our audience feedback
questionnaires
• And Excel was good for formulating Above: Print screen of my research in Word
bar charts, doughnut graphs and
pie charts this was particularly
useful when it came to showing the
results from the audience feedback
Above: Print screen of my research in Excel
5. Prezi
• Prezi was an innovate way to record our
findings for example video research and add
an interesting element to the ICT in our blog
My Prezi presentation on what equipment has
been useful
6. Photoshop and InDesign
• Elements of Photoshop but predominantly InDesign was
significant because this is what we created the double page
spread on.
• It allowed us to structure it efficiently and the software
encompassed all the tools needed to make it look authentic
(crop, text manipulation ie size/colour, text boxes)
7. Scribd/ SlideShare/ Blogger
• Without these two, work uploaded to the blog would have looked dull/boring. It
added a sense of professionalism to our work
• The blog in itself was a useful technology. Here we stored all our work and could
look back on it easily in order to structure what we needed to do next
Above: Print screen of my posts on the group
Above: SlideShare
blog
8. Final Cut Express/ Garage Band
• Final Cut Express was an important piece 1) This was the window that enabled us to
watch our documentary
of software as this is what we 2) This showed us how much time the
overall documentary was taking up
formulated the documentary on. It had 3) This shows the visual side of the
various tools for us to edit our recordings we captured placed on the
timeline
recordings and make everything fit the 4) This is the audio to our documentary
codes and conventions of genuine which is on the timeline
documentaries 5) This is the music that we imported from
GarageBand as an MP3 file to put into our
documentary; with this razor blade tool we
were able to make the volume of the
sound rise and fall to suit the audio and
visuals
6) These were all the recording we had
collected. If we wanted to use them in the
documentary we simply dragged them
onto the timeline
9. This was the tool bar at the side This was another thing
of Final Cut Express in Final Cut Express
that we used in order
It allowed us to move things to amend to the
around (grab tool), crop any font, size and colours
images we imported, amend the to what we needed
audio levels and it also
monitored the sound levels in
general of the documentary
This is the top navigation bar in Final Cut Express. It was very
useful to help us edit our documentary; for example under
the ‘Modify’ tab we could speed up/slow down/reverse what
we had recorded
10. If we clicked on the ‘Effects’ Tab were able to
get a load of Video Transitions to use by
dragging them into the timeline in our
documentary
• We particularly used the ‘Dissolve’
• We were also able to drag to either
extend/shorten the effect depending on
what effect we wanted to create
Below: I have zoomed in to the timeline of our
documentary. The grey rectangles are where I
dragged in the ‘Dissolve’ effect
This was brilliant for the fast paced montage at
the beginning of the documentary
11. • Garage Band was also important as this is the software which we
created background music on. The pre-recorded tracks sounded
professional and boosted the appeal of our documentary
immediately. It was also important as we needed it to create the
radio trailer on
Above: This is the bar which allowed to play the
music we had created. It also shows the record
button we used to record the music, and, the
rewind and fast forward options we had access
to
Above: This is a print screen of the pre recorded
music Garage Band had to offer us. By clicking
on these music genres, we could pick tracks that
reflected the mood we were aiming to create.
We picked ‘Piano’ as it’s somewhat sombre to
reflected the seriousness of eating disorders
Above: The timeline in GarageBand that
showed the music we had created
Above: This is the start up page we saw. Here
we could open our existing project
12. • As for the camera, tripod, headphones and
microphone I created a Prezi to explain how
they were useful
