2. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Planning stage
Within the planning process we used many different types of technology. We
were planning to arrange with the NSPCC however we couldn’t arrange a time
with them. But we did manage to phone them and record a phone call
answering some questions. The phone call was made on a iPhone 4S whilst the
recording of the phone call was done on a HTC. We decided to record with a
smartphone as at the time we did not know how to use a microphone used
within documentary. We then used flash media centre to convert file into mp3
so that we could upload it to blog.

3. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Planning stage
Another piece of technology used in our planning process was printers and scanners.
We used this to print of information so that we could analyse it and make annotations.
After this we needed evidence to show blog that we had made annotations so the only
way we could do this is by using scanners. I considered other forms of technology to
notes onto computer but scanners was the most efficient way of placing notes into a
digital format.

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Planning stage
Some software that I used was adobe PDF Reader. When notes were scanned the
scans came out as PDF’s this wasn’t an appropriate format for www.blogger.com so
we used computers to transfer files to JPEG as this was a format that Blogger
accepted. I also used Microsoft word which then I transferred in to JPEG for my
article analysis.

5. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Planning stage
Other pieces of soft ware I used were Prezi and slideshare this was because I needed to
show a use of various technologies and, by choosing a selection different formats it
helps me gain better skills in producing better Prezi’s and shildshares. But also it helps
the blog look better as if there it were all text then it could be hard to identify certain
posts. Where as using different formats would help identify certain aspects of the blog.

6. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
One piece of hardware that we used was the apple Mac computers. It was the first time
we used the computers but we need to use the specialised software that was on the
macs. So after learning new skills we become better in using macs and learnt shortcuts
to make use of time editing clips.

7. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
One piece of technology that was used a lot of was Final Cut Express for Mac computers
we used this in creating the documentary. We chose to use final cut express over other
formats such as windows movie makers as I had significant experience is using Final Cut
Express. But Final Cut Express was more specialised in helping create movies as it had a
range of effects, transitions and visual features. But movie maker only had basic effects
and transitions.

8. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
One piece of software that we used was InDesign for Mac computers. We chose to use
this software over competitors such as Microsoft publisher as we had already used
InDesign when create our article last year so we were very experienced in using this
software.

9. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
One piece of hardware that I used was my integral 4 gigabytes memory stick to transfer
work from computer to computer. This was the best piece of technology as using email
was time consuming and wasn’t format friendly wit apple computers. By using a
memory stick to transfer notes from one computer to another with ease was a big
advantage as it meant I could switch computers easily if I needed.

10. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
During the production process we used garage band on the Mac computer to create
the radio trailer. We chose to use garage band as we had previous experience in using
garage band. Also the only other software available for us to use was windows movie
maker but this had basic effects and wasn’t specialist in creating music and
soundtracks.

11. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Production Stage
Some hardware that we used a lot through the production process were the camera,
microphone, headphones and tri pod. We decided to use a tri pod as the camera
angles would be flat as they had a water measure on it. We used the microphone and
an external camera rather than a smart phones as it contained more megapixels
meaning a better picture quality. We also used a separate microphone instead of
smartphone as it provided sound sensitivity option which the iPhone 4S did not give
which meant we could adjust the sounds according to the environment that we were
in.

12. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Evaluation Stage
One piece of technology I used in the evaluation process was Microsoft PowerPoint. I
used this instead of Microsoft word as it could be easily transferred to other formats such
as Prezi, Slideshare, and Scribed. This would make it easier for me as it would take less
time for me to place documents on to other formats so that I could identify easily on the
blogs so that it would be easier to edit if needed.

13. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Evaluation Stage
For the evaluation process I learnt to use windows 8 operating system. I have never
used this technology before and shouldn’t have taken the risk but after learning how to
use the software it become easier to control my PC

14. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Source list
www.stuffpoint.com
www.technocrates.org
www.jgbm.co.uk
www.ventureoptic.blogspot.com
www.twitter.com
www.slideshare.net
www.mylot.com
www.hp.com
www.musicmatter.co.uk
www.dawsons.co.uk
www.whatafy.com
www.wiki.org
www.macgasm.net
www.planyouryouth.org
www.mymemory.co.uk
www.lenashore.com
www.inflowinventory.com