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technology we and many of the other groups used was online search engines; and
the most common one being ‘Google’ this search engine is something that proved
essential in our efforts of completing practically all our research and
planning as we found all the technologies above by googling different
presentation software’s and also if we needed any information this was the
place we went to, especially when researching our band and their biography, and
any other information we could collect about them. Google provided a quick and
simple way of gaining information, something we would have been very stuck with
if we didn’t have it.

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Furthermore;
when it did come to us just using word documents or PowerPoint documents for
simple planning and research notes on blogger we needed a technology to present
them in that could be embedded onto blogger and we found the perfect
technology; Scribd, this allowed us to upload full documents to it and then
onto blogger what presented it in a much smarter looking way. Something
definitely better than having to take screen shots of the PowerPoint or word
document and uploading them to blogger.

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The
next kind of presentation software that we used in our media A2 year was Prezi,
similarly to padlet it was a new way of presenting our work, it works kind of
like the Microsoft PowerPoint but is way more refined, it is very professional
with different templates to make your work more eye catching and the
transitions between different ‘slides’ is seamless as all the slides are on one
massive canvas template. We used Prezi to primarily present research and
planning work but we also used it when giving our pitch for our idea, we
thought it would be much better to use than just the bog standard PowerPoint as
it really is more eye catching and professional looking, especially compared to
PowerPoint or even no visuals at all (just speaking).

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Secondly,
throughout the two years of doing media we needed to use a more organised
programme/technology to exhibit our work and to have everything we have researched, planned and produced in one simple to transverse place, and the programme we found to be the best was blogger, this not only allowed us to write up any work in essay form but it also allowed to bring in other technologies such as
prezies, padlets and video technologies such as YouTube by having an embed
feature, this was extremely valuable as we wanted our work to have variety in
the way it is presented and not just in boring essays. It allows easy access to
all our work as you can set it up so that there are different pages for our
different sections: Preliminary, research, planning, production and finally
evaluation; these being tabs that in one click will send you to all the work
related with the tab subject.

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Firstly when it came to our task of
producing a media promotion package one of the first things we needed to do was
find was a band that we could contact to allow us to use their song, but in our
task it was specified that we needed to use/find an unsigned band/artist, this
done so that we didn’t run into any copyright infringement problems that could
of proved very problematic for us and the school if we used signed very popular
bands such as Take That etc., and to find this band/Artist we used a website
called ‘unsigned.com’ (this being a website that housed many, many unsigned
bands work for people to search for and enjoy – this allowing us to search for
a track we could use without infringing any copyright.  It was an extremely good piece of technology as it was nicely split into all the different genres ready for us to find the
genre we liked and then the band/artist we wanted to use. After searching we
came across a band called '3rd Rock Revolution' and their song 'Put On Ya'
Boots' a song we instantly liked and thought we could definitely use and get a
good narrative out of the lyrics and use a range of techniques, it had a link
to the bands email address and Facebook page so after finding them we contacted
them via email and Facebook to ask them for permission to used their song.

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In
this question I will be running through the different media technologies that
we used in all the three categories of: research, planning and evaluation; how
they benefitted us and how we actually used them.