1. HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE
CONSTRUCTION AND
RESEARCH, PLANNING
AND EVALUATION
STAGES?

2. Blogger
• Before I started to create my newspaper I set up a new
blog using blogger for me to upload my coursework onto
it. This allowed me to easily upload images, word
documents and presentations through using slide share
and then posting html codes onto the blog. It also allows
you to upload voice clips which were useful for my radio
advert ancillary task. I found editing my posts useful as I
was able to change my documents once I had uploaded
them through pressing overview. One limitation of my blog
was the ideas generation map which was too big for the
page meaning I have to scroll across. As this was the only
limitation I believe using blogger was a useful and
convenient way to present my coursework.

3. Slideshare
• Slideshare was another key website throughout my
coursework as I was able to easily upload my documents
and presentations onto my blog. I was easily able to
embed the documents onto my blog through a html code
so that all my coursework was available digitally.

4. iPhone camera
• To take the majority of my photographs I used an
iPhone which was useful as it is very portable
and easy to use. However, as I do not possess a
mobile which is able to take high quality
photographs this was a limitation for my work as I
had to use other people’s iPhones instead. This
was another inconvenience for me as I do not
have a USB and was not able to take the
iPhones I used with me to college therefore I had
to email the photographs to myself through
Hotmail which was very time consuming as I
could only do this one at a time via mobile.

5. Nikon camera
• This also prevented me from taking an excessive amount
of photographs so the amount of images I had for my
newspaper was limited. Another option was to take a
Nikon camera from college which are very good quality,
however as they were often booked out it was difficult to
get access to them.

6. Photoshop
• The software I found most useful when creating my
newspaper was Photoshop as this is where I created
my ancillary task on and main product. As I have used
Photoshop previously I found it simple to use which
was helpful. I used Photoshop to edit my photos being
able to change the contrast and saturation in order to
make the photos bright. I also used Photoshop to
create the mastheads using the variety of fonts
available on the programme to make them look as
professional as possible. Another useful aspect of
Photoshop was the lock guides which helped me to
align my texts and images to make the layout very
concise as real newspapers are. However, I found the
amount of layers I had to use on Photoshop a
limitation as I found it confusing changing the
newspaper because it was difficult to find the right
layer I was looking for.

7. Facebook
• I used Facebook, the social networking site to get people
to complete my survey as this was an easy way to send
people the link. I also shared the link on twitter which
created numerous responses for my market research in a
short period of time. I also used Facebook to create a
focus group for my evaluation, posting the final images of
my main product and asking people to voice their opinion
on them. This was useful as it was very simple to use as I
am very familiar with the website and I knew this would be
a website I could quickly get responses from.