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HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION

STAGES?

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PLANNING AND RESEARCH

The main technology I used was the iMac computers , this was used for my

research and planning stage, they introduced a new design techniques in the

form of ‘Photoshop’. Also as part of my research and planning I had to do

some primary research into regional magazines which involved physically

buying magazines to gain more knowledge as I had never brought or read one

before. My presentation techniques involved from ‘Prezzie’ and ‘Slide Share’,

both of these I had never used before and I had to used YouTube tutorials on

how to use them, after watching them they was really easy to use. I have also

presented my Prezzi’s and Slide Shares on my blog page, which i had to also

find tutorials on how to put them on there for people to access easily.

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PLANNINGBeing able to plan my coursework it get be a chance to make drafts

before settling on my final piece. Whilst in my planning stages I used

digital technologies and sketched drafts. I created my drafts on

‘Photoshop’ and I used ‘Webbly’ to drafts my hyper linked web pages.

During the planning stage I continually kept making more changed as

there were many changes to be made. The main problem was sorting out

getting the right images what I wanted because the weather was always

bad it was hard to get decent shots.

My focus group was a main part of my coursework as they enabled me to

gain knowledge that I didn't know to create my pieces of coursework,

when I didn't know t was expected for the target audience of regional

magazines. Especially when coming to creating my billboard

advertisement.

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RESEARCHTo contact my focus group we had regular meetings to discuss my work

pieces. Also the first few weeks in lessons I used most my time looking up on

the internet and YouTube on regional magazines, to see what they was about,

how they was laid out, target audience and what I would have to do to make my

own work look professional.

Mostly my regional magazine research for all my tasks, main and ancillary

was conducted by the internet, many lessons and notes into what I was going to

do to create my own. I also conducted primary research to see first hand

regional magazines for myself that I could take home and look back at if I

needed to. As for my billboard I had never seen a magazine billboard, so that

research was constructed by the help of my focus group, however also local

billboards, seeing there simple designs also made me realise I should keep to a

simple design.

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IMAGE CREATION

Whilst creating my advertisement I found that in my research

many adverts were of watches and I wanted to created that sense of

professionalism into my own work. Using ‘Photoshop’ enabled me to

create this, from the transformation from the image took to what my

final piece looks like.

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CONSTRUCTION During creating my main tasks and ancillary tasks, the planning at

the start enabled me to know knowledge and get the right ideas for

my final pieces. I used ‘Photo Shop’ for my main tasks, billboard but

for my webpage I used ‘Webbly’ to create my own webpage deign.

From already using ‘Photo shop’ for my year 12 coursework I

already had skills on how to use it to create good final pieces to

bring forward to my year 13 coursework, however when I used

‘Weebly’ to create my Web Page I had never used it before and had

to look up YouTube tutorials to help me understand and gain new

skills to create a successful, professional Webpage.

To produce high quality images used across all my tasks I used a

cannon digital camera to the pictures I needed for my work. I had

also used this camera in year 12 as well therefore I already had

knowledge on how to used it and what angels to get the best shots.

EVALUATION

When completing my evaluation I used many media technologies such

as ‘Prezzi’ and ‘Slide Share’, which enabled me to have a more visual

effect on people and they would want to read it as it isn't just all text in

one format. Iv included lots of images of my mains tasks, ancillary tasks

and drafts throughout where iv explained about them and you can then

see them below, connecting what I am talking about. I set my evaluation

out on ‘Microsoft Word’ including two questions written on there, one on

‘Slide Share’ which was originally created on ‘Microsoft Power Point’ and

one on ‘Prezzi’, for more visual texts for the reader to look at and be

interested in.

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