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

This question is cut down into two sections. The first part is the technologies we used in the construction and research stage whereas, the next part is about the planning and evaluation stage. In both parts, we used a very wide rrange of technology which is going to be explained why and what we used in what stage of the process.

Construction and research:

In this section, me and Izel used several different pieces of technology to help us construct and reserach everything wee needed to achieve. These were:

• The internet
• Mac computers
• Blogger
• Photoshop
• Sony Vegas
• Scanner
• Video Camera
• Camera

Firstly, the internet was used by both of us for both construction and research. We used the internet for cunstruction as we had to get onto our blog account to construct our blogs and add coursework to it. It also enabled us to carry out significant research such as looking at horror trailers, finding our about Freytag's triangle and much more. This was a useful part of technologh we used which helped us succeed and excel in several areas within year 13.

Mac computer were used for countless reasons in the construction and research stages. This first of these is that it gave us the chance to access the internet and therefore we were able to access blogger and undertake significant research. It also gave the opportunity to use software such as photoshop to construct our movie poster anf magazine cover. So this was the most important part of technology that we had to have to achieve in most areas.

Photoshop was the software we used to construct our movie poster and magazine front cover. Having used it in the previous year at AS level, we were already fimiliar with its operations and we easily and promptly put together a successful few pieces of work to put onto our blogs. This was an effective part of technology that i thing work on my side throughout the construction of our coursework. Sony Vegas was another software we used however, i had never used it before so it took some getting used to. This was used to edit our groups trailer and i quickly responded in a positive way to the software. However, this was on my laptop and not on the Mac computers the school provided. Therefore, i was fimiliar with my laptop which made it more useful for me to encounter.

We also used a scanner, camera and video camera in order to achieve in different areas of our media coursework. We used a scanner to scan our filming schedule onto the mac computers and then put them onto our blogs. Cameras were used to take photos of our filming loactions and the video camera was obviously used to film our clips of footage that we later used in our horror trailer.

On anoverall basis, only one piece of technology gave me trouble which was the Sony Vegas software. Apart from this, all technology was pretty straight forward to use and was simple to get along with. Izel helped me out with a few technical difficultys we experianced. However, nothing was too threatening.

Planning and evaluation:

There were only three pieces of technology used within this section of the coursework. These three pieces of technology are:

• The internet
• Mac computers
• Blogger

The planning we undertook was a general analysis of differnt things to do with our trailer such as analysing other trailers. The internet was the main use of this where we logged onto Youtube and watched several and gained a better knowledge of film trailers. However, in the evaluation stage, the internet was used to access our blog account and therefore we used mac computer and my laptop. This was the only use of tchnology within this section and i had no difficulty with any of it.