When planning their media production, the author did extensive research by annotating newspapers and websites to understand what features audiences wanted. They used WordPress to blog about their research planning and present tasks to their teacher. SlideShare allowed them to present PowerPoint presentations online and improve their technological skills. The author also created a newspaper proposal based on a questionnaire to understand their audience and what the newspaper would feature. They used PagePlus and Serif WebPlus, which were difficult at first but helped the author create mockups and their final media products, improving their skills.

2. Research
When planning for my media production I did allot research planning to know what my
audiences wanted in my local newspaper. The first task we had to do was a newspaper and
website annotation which we had to look at what features the newspapers and websites had
to help us with our media products.
I used power point to do my annotation of
the newspaper and posted it on wordpress,
this website was useful as it was the blog I
posted all my research planning onto it. The
website ‘WordPress’ is a blog website which
adds many multi-media technologies on
there such as slide share, vimeo video and
more. Every research we did was posted on
the blog as tasks were due and asked to be
presented on our blog for our teacher to
see. Another use was having the teachers
blog to help us as it guided us and let us
know what to do. The blogs were very useful
in the planning area as it helped us present
our work online. At the beginning the blog
was some sort tricky as it was hard to get
use to but over time we learned how to use
it which was helpful as we developed our
media skills with online technologies.

3. Another media technology I used was slide share which
allowed me to add my power point presentations on
there, this area helped me with my media technologies
as it helped me to be more technologically diverse
when presenting my pre-production work, this helped
me with my research planning as it presented it in a
better light.
I also did a newspaper proposal to know what my
audience wanted for research and this proposal was
from the results of my questionnaire, this also stated
what my newspaper will feature and the main story and
how much the price is set. Also the proposal was added
onto my blog site. This helped with research and
planning as it helped know what my audience want and
what I was going to do and was a good guideline. The
technologies I used was power point in this as it helped
present it well.

4. I did a mock up of my newspaper and other
media products as it helped me know where I
was going. Along with the newspaper
proposal. I used page plus to make the mock
up which helped me allot.
Page plus was a program I found quite
difficult using but it was very helpful at the
same time as I got used to it very quickly.
I also made my media products using page
plus which was helpful as working on it
improved my skills very well.

5. Print screen shots of my media
work, as seen on my blog.

6. I used page plus to create my front page, inside page and my
poster. The website was very effective as it helped me make
my media productions and also helped me develop my skills,
throw the prink screen shots you can see my media work has
progressed and changed over many times as the more I got
used to it the easier it became. This technology was very
easy to use and helped me allot and became very effective

10. Serif web plus was another program I used to create my website page. This
was also effective as it allowed me to make my website any size as I wanted
it to have a long length and was very useful when producing my website. I
used this program in the construction of my media website newspaper page
which was hard at first as it was hard at getting used too. This helped me allot
as my product didn’t take long to make and I used it very well in the process.