How did I use Media Techonlogy in my research, planning,

construction and evaluation.

Blogger

This is where I have uploaded all of my posts of research, planning, construction and evaluation.

Blogging is an excelllent online tool to upload a journey of work. You can edit posts, feature them, organise them ect.

PC/Mac

At school I used two type of platforms, the Macbook which I disliked due to how small it is and the fact you can’t maximize windows. The keyboard was too compressed too with a tiny screen. I could not work with it, but we put our differences aside and I had managed to do research on the Mac by looking on Youtube for short films and posters on google images.

The Pc, I am a Pc person. The Pc offered me many types of software such as Adobe Web CS5.5 (PhotoShop, Flash and Fireworks), Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Word. I have managed to research on the websites such as YouTube, Blogs, FIlm reviews ect. Then with my findings I would write out a document such as an analysis for a film or for a poster. These findings were recorded with word and then uploaded to scrib, which was embedded on my blogAs you can see I have used two different types of platorms for all stages of my coursework. I can now use a Mac effectively and my skills in editing and creating spreadsheets have increased from using the PC

On YouTube I was able to research short films, existing products. From looking at these short films I was able to understand the conventions and codes of short films.

Youtube allowed me to also upoad my short films which were then shared with my target audience on Facebook and upoaded on my blogspot.

Social Networking Sites

For my research,planning and construction I have used Facebook,Twitter and Tumblr, Youtube to present my main product and print workd to my target audience.

This has worked well because I have been able to gather feedback and improve on my work.

Survey Monkey

• Allowed me to create a survey• Embed survey in to my blog• Share survey on facebook

where my target audience had completed it

• Collect the results and base my media main task and print task on the results

Fireworks and Photoshop

• Proffesional softwares that real media companies use, not publisher. Allowed print task to have great quality and a proffeesional look to it

• Two types of softwares: Fireworks I made my film review and in Photoshop I made my film poster.

• These two were used in the construction stage.

Video, Camera and MobilePhone

These three were used for my construction and plannng stage. By using the schools 1280 HD video camera I was able to create my film. With the mobile phone I had tooken images of the locations of where I will be shooting.

With the stil camera I had taken a picture of Nick and Joe for my PRINT task which was then edited on PhotoShop and created.

Imovie

Last year I had used Sony Vegas and I have gotten excellent results from using it, such as being able to colour correct, green screen and add so much more Fx. This year I feel I have been let down, since the editing software the school had was Imovie. It had limited me from unlockng my potential on my main task- such as colour correction and transaction effects.

But I percerviered and used Imovie to edit my film. Despite my film being a little bad, I’m still proud of it since I used a different platform to edit my film.

I had created presentations of my findings in my coursework on powerpoint. This was then uploaded on to sideshare which enabled me to then embedd the document in to my blog.

Powerpoint was used to asnwer the first question of my evaluation, it is good because I was able to visually display my poster and film review whilst comparing it with other existing products

These were then uploaded on to slide share which were then uploaded on to my blog.

For my research and planning I had used presened my findings as an essay which was typed up using Word. This was easy because I could just print screen then crop it on word with out having to save an image then edit it and upload it on my blog.

Word enabled me to create documents of research for my films, posters and film reviews.

I also created my script on word, shich was then uploaded to scribd. I had shared this on twitter, using scribd, and I gained excellent feedback on my scribd (pardon the pun)

Scribd is a website that allows users to upload word documents for it to be shared all around the wolrld (web). And this is what I have been doing, sharing my documents such as my script for it to be noticed by my target audience.

Scribd also enabled me, just like slideshare- to embed my document in to my blog.

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Using Prezi I had created an interactive presentation that the viewer can interact with and look at my findings for my evalutation.

Popplet is an interactive whiteboard, I used it for my evaulation like the first question to make mind maps of conventions of posters and short films.

The good thing is that it’s interative and both tools allow me to embed it on to my blog.