How did you use media technologies in construction and research, planning and

evaluation stages

Construction

While planning and constructing both my preliminary and final pieces, I used a series of technologies to help me.

As well as using digital cameras to take both

photographs and film scenes, we also used a

large DSLR camera and lights to create high

key lighting. We did quite a bit of our planning work in the classroom – for this, we used Microsoft Publisher, Word and PowerPoint to produce our work.

Research

Before making my final piece, it was important to research exiting products on the market. This allowed me to discover to codes and conventions needed in producing a soap opera trailer.For this, I used YouTube, BBC iPlayer and ITV Player.

I used YouTube primarily for watching and evaluating Hollyoaks. I was able to watch trailers which had been made many years before which allowed me see the changing conventions. Furthermore, YouTube also recommends shows and trailers for me, based on my watching habits. This was extremely helpful in discovering my demographic.

I was able to use institutions online TV players in order to watch soap operas I had missed on TV. As well as allowing me to watch the trailers, most of the programs also included adverts – further showing me who the demographic and target audience of the show were, based on the advertisements in the break.

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ITV Player also included a featured programmes section, and like YouTube I was able to discover who the soap was aimed at by looking at the programmes they would also watch.

Social Media

I used Social Media in order to communicate and present my work. Websites such as Twitter allowed me to communicate with my group and teacher, and other sites such as Blogger, SlideShare and YouTube let me present my work

To communicate with both my teacher and my group, we used the social networking site Twitter. This made it easy for us to communicate with one another, and also provided us with a way to send and view photos.

Teacher FeedbackThrough Twitter, I was easily able communicate with my teacher and receive her feedback. This was much quicker and simpler than using traditional email, and I was able to complete my work at home.

As a way of presenting my work, I used to website Blogger. Here I was able to present all my work in chronological order and include PowerPoint's, pictures and documents.

My Blog:

Aquinas Blog:Here, I was able to keep up to date with information posted by my teacher, as well as follow my classmates blogs.

This is my SlideShare account – I used SlideShare to convert a PowerPoint so I was able to upload it t my blog.

iMovie

I used iMovie in order to create my trailer. Here I was able to edit all my raw footage, as well as export it to YouTube.

Click here to view how I did it...