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

Rob Oxley

For the A2 Media coursework we had to use a range of different software products including Photoshop, Indesign, Microsoft word and Powerpoint, Final Cut Pro, Garageband and then different websites such as Facebook, Blogger, Youtube, Prezi and Google

Software we used

I used Indesign to produce the double page spread because you can set up the column grids which help make the text more presentable and professional. Also it helped getting all of the text on the same line horizontally through the two pages. When using Indesign there where several problems that I encountered. The first one was, when I re-opened Indesign after the first time, I could not change anything on the page which meant that the smaller picture of the phone was slightly overlapping the text in the middle column. I tried for some time to fix this problem but in the end gave up as I needed to get on with the rest of the double page. There where also some minor problems which set me back slightly, for example when I imported the background image I accidently kept cropping it instead of making it smaller. Also there was a minor problem with changing the text colour so it would stand out from the background but eventually I fixed this problem and decided to have the text white because it would stand out best.

Indesign

Photoshop