Josie's A2 media blog

Friday 8th April

Evaluation question 4.How did you use new media technologies in the construstion and research, planning and evaluation?

Basic script of what i said in my video;
In the research of my newspaper, technology wasn’t really a great deal of use to me. The only time I used it was to go on local newspapers webpages for example the news. In the construction of my project however I used technology a lot, firstly I created my blog then used a digital camera, I uploaded the photos I had taken on to flikr and linked this to my blog. After doing this I then created flat plans of my paper on InDesign , once my flat plans were created I then used InDesign to create my front page and inside page. Throughout the creation of my newspaper I kept on updating my blog, so was constantly using technology. After this stage was finished I then went on to create my poster, again using InDesign, which seemed to be a key tool of my process. When I had completed these I used a program called iweb, this enabled be to create my webpage, this I found to be very useful and surprisingly easy. When the construction part of my coursework process was done I then moved on to the evaluation. The new media technologies I used in this were a programme called prezi, this website enabled me to create an interactive presentation to answer my first question. After this I then did a power point presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, this power point presentation along with everything else can be seen on my blog. After doing this, to answer question 3. I used Microsoft word to create my audience feedback questionnaire this I printed off and also made a screen grab of which I inserted into my blog. After this I then decided to create a video using a program called life frame on my laptop which I intend to upload onto flikr and insert into my blog.

so to conclude the list of new media technologies that I have used they are as follows; google, the news website, blogger, flikr, indesign , iweb, prezi, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft word and life frame.

Friday 8th April

Evaluation question 3.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
When it came to audience feedback, I decided to conduct a questionnaire. I printed off copies of my newspaper cover, page2, poster and both pages of my webpage for analysis. I asked six questions, the first 5 being yes or no answers and the last being and open ended question. These questions were;
1) Do you feel that the front page and inside page of my newspaper look authentic and real?

2) Do you feel that the poster promotes the paper well, to make you want to subscribe?

3) Do you feel that the website and sports page look authentic and real?

4) Do feel that the design of the whole project flows well together?

5) If this were a real local paper would you purchase it?

6) Are there any comments you would like to make, which you feel would better my paper?

After retrieving all of my questionnaires back, it seemed as though my product was good in the eyes of the public. The majority of people answered yes to the first five questions and those who put no, gave me hints and tips as to why they answered this way. The main area that I felt I didn’t do so well on was people’s answers for question 2 regarding my poster. Even though only 3 out of the 15 people I asked answered no for this question, it was the only area which was lacking 100% perfection. From this I decided to change the colour and image of my poster to look more bright and eye-catching, after this I then got a few people to re-evaluate my poster , the answers I then retrieved I was much happier with.
As for question 6, my open question one person suggested that I should have made my story on page 2 my main headline, after some consideration and limited access to other pictures and apple mac software I decided against this move, due to the little time I had remaining. Making this choice I feel was the right decision as I feel that the story fit well within the second page. One more comment was made on question 6 regarding my poster for my paper, this statement was
“ Even though you have shown a possible reward for subscribing, you should also include other incentives like reduced daily prices or free door to door delivery”
Again, even though this comment was valid, I did not make any changes to my poster as the whole imagery and idea of the poster was to promote a competition for a Paris trip.. not what other goodies you would get for subscribing, if this information were going to be anywhere it would be on my webpage under subscription, but I wasn’t making a link for this page.
All in all, even though I did not take the advice given to me in question six, I still found these questionnaires helpful, and knowing now that other people think my paper and other parts of my coursework look real and authentic makes me feel more confident that what I have done is of a good standard, as I have tried my best to produce a good piece of coursework.