The document summarizes the various media technologies and tools used by students in their research and production of a children's television show project. They used YouTube to research existing shows, Google Images to find magazine/DVD covers, their school blog to plan and organize their work, a video camera to film footage, Photoshop and Premier Pro for editing video and designing print materials, and social media like Facebook and Wallwisher to gather feedback.

2.  The main use of media technologies in the
research process of our project was the use of
the Internet using YouTube. We used this website
to look at several clips of different school based
television shows to see what sort of features we
could incorporate into ours.
 By looking at the opening titles of these shows
we identified common features that occur in
them and gained ideas for our own work.

3.  We knew YouTube would be a reliable source
for getting the clips we needed because it is
used as a global tool for watching video’s and
anyone can upload video’s to it.

4.  When researching for magazine and DVD
covers, we used Google Images to look at
examples of other children’s TV programmes.
This is because it gathers pictures from all
over the Internet which gave a large variety of
results.

5.  We sent an email to students around school who would be interested in
auditioning for a role in our children’s TV show.
 After successful feedback we were in a position to hold a casting session where
we chose the most suitable people for the roles.

6.  We used our blog on www.blogger.com to
post most of our research and planning.
Looking at all our research and planning on
the blog helped us to keep on track with our
production.

7.  We used the studio in college to shoot footage for the
opening titles of the programme and take
photographs for the print work, as well as different
locations around college for the film including
corridors, the field and classrooms.
 We used a Panasonic HD camera for filming which
gave us high quality footage and records straight to
an SD card to make it easy to upload to computers for
editing. For taking photo’s we used a Nikon SLR
camera which had many features on such as changing
the focus on the lens.

8.  To edit the video footage we used Adobe
Premier Pro, which is a program used to cut
parts of footage out that you don’t need and
arrange all the footage in order. We also used
different effects in the program including
shaping the hand when the names are being
wrote on the whiteboard.

9.  We also used Adobe Premier’s after effects to create the
effect of the hand writing while each character is introduced
and smiling.
 This allowed us to blend the clips of the hand writing and the
smiling character together and cut and crop to make the
transition of movements look better and smoother.

10.  For the print side of our product we used
Adobe Photoshop to produce our magazine
cover and DVD cover.
 This programme has features that made our
print work look very realistic and similar to
existing media conventions.

11.  For the evaluation of our product, we used
the studio and the Panasonic HD camera to
film people’s thoughts on our products.
 This allowed us to get evidence of what
people thought was good about our product
and what they would change.

12.  Another thing we did was use the social networking site
Facebook for the evaluation of our work.
 We uploaded our opening titles to the website and this
allowed us to get a variety of consumer opinions.
 We used Wallwisher.com to create a virtual wall about our
video and this allowed people to post reviews and opinions
about our coursework