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

We used the internet to do a lot of the research into newspapers including looking at logos and various newspaper websites which included http://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk, http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk and http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/ when deciding our ancillary tasks. We used google images to find local newspaper front pages in areas in different places in the country/world. We also used the internet to post our blogs which are electronic diaries of our entire production which we could post information about the stages of production we were at and various pictures and things as we went along.We used Adobe Photoshop to edit photographs used for adverts and main articles; we also used photoshop for our posters to get the pictures looking professional. Examples of effects and functions of photoshop were to remove or crop certain objects from photographs and add various lighting effects to photographs. For example in my advert for a hairdressing salon I melded the background into a smooth stylish white look and cut out a pattern on the wall behind. Similarly in my photo of a woman with a cat I used lighting effects to brighten the picture so its easier to see the image.We used a program called Microsoft Publisher to actually piece the newspaper together and to create the posters. Publisher was very useful as it allowed us to easily move around various articles and pictures we had created and arrange them into a suitable newspaper format. We wrote our articles on Microsoft Word and then transferred them to Publisher. Publisher enabled us to create the columns that newspapers have and helped give it its official appearance.For our radio advert we used garageband. With its recording function and many audio samples it was perfect for creating a suitable radio advert for our newspaper with enough customisation to make it sound unique.