Evaluation question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I will be using a program named powerpoint to answer this question.

First slide:
research and planning, for this stage of my media coursework i used such programs as blogger, paint and YouTube. I used blogger as a way to store and plan my ideas and research, this allowed me to have a safe place to store my research and also an effective way to be able to look back and reflect when planning the rest of my work. I used paint to be able to print screen many things such as magazine front covers, potential fonts and also show progress in how I was planning. Paint allowed me to store the print screens and save them to be able to upload them to my blog. YouTube was a massive technology that was used throughout every stage of my media coursework. I used it in my research and planning to allow me to look at previous trailers to be able to pick out and identify typical media conventions that I would be able to use within my media product to be able to make it of a high standard and to make it look professional.

Second slide:

Within my construction the main media technologies I used were premier pro, adobe Photoshop, paint and Microsoft word. Premier pro was the main media technology which I used to be able to construct my teaser trailer, this was where paint and Microsoft came into help as with these media technologies I was able to print screen, save and upload construction progress shots onto my blog to be able to show the audience how exactly they were constructed. Adobe Photoshop was used heavily for my magazine front cover and movie poster. This is as Photoshop offers a higher range of effects and skill which made my ancillary tasks look professional and of a high standard. This also helped to improve my continuity. I found adobe premier pro and adobe Photoshop particularly hard to use as I had to teach myself how to use them as I progressed through the project. 

Third slide:

The main media technologies I used to help me make my evaluation consisted heavily on blogger, premier pro, paint and YouTube. Blogger allowed me to use it as a canvas in allowing me to present my evaluation in different and interesting ways.  Premier pro allowed me to be able to present my audience feedback in a different way by using clips of their voices to go over the top of the pictures and also allowed me to be able to do a voiceover of my own to explain how the feedback has helped me. YouTube was a massive help which allowed me to upload these evaluations as videos to be able to embed into my blog as an interesting and different way to present my evaluation. I used paint and Microsoft in the same way as in allowing me to take print screens of things such as my power points and construct them so that I was able to convert them to a slideshow video on YouTube.