The student used various media technologies at different stages of their project on violent video games. During research, they used Google, YouTube, and mobile internet to search for existing works and information. They used Blogger to document their research and planning process by embedding videos, pictures, and documents. Microsoft Word and PowerPoint were used to create documents, questionnaires, and presentations. For construction, they used a video recorder, Apple Mac, Final Cut Express, Photoshop, and InDesign to build a documentary, double page spread, and radio trailer. For evaluation, they posted their video on YouTube and embedded it in their blog, and used PowerPoint and SlideShare to create and share an evaluation presentation.

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

2. Technologies we used…

3. Research
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During our research we used ‘Google’ search engine a lot to
research existing products we wanted to take certain codes and
conventions from. Google was also used to look for news reports on
crimes involving violent video games. We also used ‘YouTube’ a lot
to look up existing documentaries and news reports we could gain
information from to add into our documentary.
When we didn’t have access to a computer to do research, we
used our mobile phone internets a lot to look up certain YouTube
videos or even to look at news reports.

4. Blogger
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We used blogger a lot in our research and planning as this is
the place we filed all of our work and research as we were
progressing through the course.
Blogger has been useful as we have been able to embed
videos and post pictures of wheat we had found to support
our project.
We also used programs like ‘Slide Share’ and ‘Scribd’ to
embed documents we had produced for the topic.
Blogger was effectively used as a diary to record every thing
we achieved during the project.

5. Micro Soft Office
Microsoft Word was a major program we used in the
research and planning of our project as we used it to
create montages of information to add to the blog. We
also used word to construct our questionnaires as it is
easy to use.
We also used PowerPoint a lot in out research and
planning to create montages of research we had done
for the creation of our products.

6. Construction
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A main form of technology we used when constructing our
documentary was a video recorder. As it was a visual
documentary, we used the camera consistently to record
every thing we wanted to include in our production. When
we’d record3ed everything we needed, we would upload the
footage to the Apple Mac computers and ‘log and transfer’
the footage over to Final Cut Express where we began editing
it and creating out final product.
With our Double Page Spread, we used Adobe Photoshop to
edit the images we used in the DPS and we used InDesign to
create the actual DPS product.
With our Radio trailer, we used an external microphone to
record the voice over for the trailer. We also used garage band
to create the song to put on the radio trailer (and the
documentary). The radio trailer was then developed on Final
Cut.

7. How did we use Final Cut?
Fade in and out tool:
The fade in fade out title is dragged down on
to the documentary to add it in between two
shots.

8. Editing sound levels:
We used this tool to
edit the sound levels of
our documentary so
the sound levels were
all equal and sounded
professional.
This ‘blade’ tool was
used to cut the
clips/sound to the right
length for the position
they needed to be in.

9. Adding clips to the documentary:
To add the clips in
to the
documentary, you
drag the clip from
the logged,
unedited group of
clips and place it
into the time line.

10. Makin our radio trailer:

11. How did we use InDesign?
Drop cap tool:
Text wrap tool:

12. Background deleting (Photoshop):
These tools were
used to delete the
background of
this image.
Placing the image:
To place an
image onto
InDesign, the
image must be
placed using the
tool indicated.

13. Making our song on Garage Band
We used the beats
provided on the
program to make our
song.

14. Evaluation – YouTube
We used YouTube to post our video onto the
internet. We then embedded the video from you
tube onto our blog. YouTube is easily accessible,
allowing anyone to view our product.

15. Evaluation – Power
Point/Slideshare
For my evaluation, I used power point to map out
the information visually. Then to post it onto the
blog, I had to put it onto ‘slide share’ so I could use
the embed code. They were both simple to use and
converting the power point to slide share wasn’t
difficult.