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

Through the whole process of planning, creating and evaluating our products we used a wide range of media technologies. The first example would be when we used Adobe programs such as Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere. While using this software we could create our documentary, double page spread and we were also able to edit some images use in both the documentary and double page spread. Last year we also used two of these programs so I had no problem using them and found it comfortable to complete the tasks, however it was difficult to create different effects and add our own style to the documentary but once learning the basics of premiere pro it became a lot easier.

We also used Microsoft office and SlideShare to upload our research and planning to our blog and complete my evaluation questions. This helped to get large amounts of date through and helped us too conclude our research and planning. Since they are commonly used we knew they were reliable and had no problems using them.

To gather audience feedback we used a new website called Survey Monkey which was simple to use and allowed us a new way to carry out research. While collecting research I decided to use a new website MindMeister which we used a couple of times which was another useful website that was simple to use but helped add something different to our blog.

Throughout the whole process we used hardware like cameras, tripods and scanners to help improve the blog and the products created.

Overall, I believe we have used a wide range of programs and software available to create good quality products, research and planning and evaluations. I have used software that I am comfortable using and software that I know I will be able to use at a high level. However, to make my evaluation different I could have included a video maybe since I am also familiar with creating them since our group created multiple videos to review our progress so far on the blog.