HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION

STAGES? Question 4

Websites:The media technology I had used was a blog site known as ‘blogger’, this allowed me to present my coursework including my research and planning towards the documentary and the ancillary tasks. I published my work through using Slideshare and Prezi. Slideshare enabled me to upload powerpoints and word documents to the internet and Prezi allowed me to create presentations using a variety of templates that are provided on the website. It provided me with inserting images, screenshots and videos. These two technologies were the most used websites to present my work.

More Websites:There were two other media technologies that I had used to present my coursework and was voki and soundclound. Voki had allowed me to produce a virtual tool that would talk to you about what I have written. It should be related to my work. Soundcloud was used to listen associating my research. I had also used PowToon which is another presentation website similar to Prezi. As for my planning, one website I did use that was incredibly helpful was ‘storyboardthat.com’. I am glad I used this as it saved me from drawing the storyboard which is not my favourite thing to do. I thoroughly enjoyed using this site as it allowed me to become creative. I had also used videos to explain the tasks that were later uploaded to my blog. This had helped me to with my filming skills.

Photoshop / InDesign:

My ancillary tasks consist of the advert and the double page spread. I created the advert on Photoshop, allowing me to add text to the main image. I had make sure that all text was central, by doing this I had used the grid to line everything with the same width either line of the text. InDesign was what I had used for the layout of double page spread. This helped me to choose where to put the main body, images and also the masthead and subheading. However, I had used Photoshop to edit the images, the masthead and the subheading.

iMovie: To create my documentary, I had used a video-editing software known as iMovie. Which allowed me to use different transitions, place footage in chronical order and add text to the moving image. I had enjoyed playing around with the software.

Technological Equipment:The equipment I had used throughout producing my documentary were mainly a camera and an apple mac computer. The camera had allowed me to capture the footage used in my documentary and also capture the photographs used in my ancillary tasks. During the first scenes of the documentary, I had used a tripod which allowed me have steady footage that didn’t shake due to holding the camera. During some of the interviews, I had used studio lights that helped with being able to see the person in the frame. I had also use a reflector that allowed the light to bounce so that it looked neater whilst filming. I had used an Mac computer which had allowed to me use the video editing software iMovie.