1. How did you use media technologies
in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?
Stephanie Molyneux
2. Slideshare
• Slideshare is an online website that allowed me to
upload any Power Point’s and show them in a more
presentable way. As blogger is unable to host Power
Point documents directly it is a very useful tool for me
to show presentations.
• I used powerpoint when presenting any research I had
done for my documentary (The Devil made me do
it, Escape!, The Marketing of Meatloaf etc) to help me
recognise the codes and conventions of a
documentary. I also used slideshare to publish all my
graphs. I used slideshare because it looked a lot more
professional uploading all of the graphs together rather
than on a word document.
3. Blogger
• Blogger is a website where people can
upload different forms of information all
in the same place so that it can openly be
viewed on the internet in chronological
order and upload different medias.
• I have used blogger from the beginning of
the year when I started analysing and
researching about documentaries.
• As it is easily accessible it has made it
easier to share work and ideas with my
group. Also as it is very easy website to
naviagte it allows anyone to locate my
work.
• On Blogger I have uploaded, Powerpoint
presentations, Prezi files, word
documents, Tagul files and video and
audio files.
4. Prezi
• I used Prezi when researching documentaries
such as 12 year old lifer and Accused: The 74
stone babysitter to present my findings during
the start of the year.
• Prezi allows you to select a template that you
want to use for the layout, I choose a template
that was bold and eye catching. When you
press play on the image, the slide quickly
transitions and shows your work in a more
creative way.
• It is very simple and easy to add text and
images. Prezi allowed me to put forward my
plans for my documentary in an interesting
way with lots of detail and show my
presentation in a more creative way.
• To transfer this file from prezi I had to use an
‘Embed’ code to transfer it on to my blog.
5. SLR camera and camera
• Throughout the filming of our documentary we used a Sony
HD video camera to film all of our footage with. We also
used tripods to create a steady shot so it looked
professional. We used the tripod when filming cutaways
such as when a group of people are sat together socialising
and also filming the interviews and vox pops.
• When filming the interviews we also used a microphone so
that the sound would be recorded.
• I used an SLR cameras to take pictures for our print
advertisement. By trying a variety of shot types (Close
up, extreme close up, long shot, medium shot0 we found
that was the best way to decide what was the best picture.
6. Powerpoint
• I used powerpoint to create
presentations from my
documentary analysis. This
allowed me to understand
how to make a
documentary look more
professional and make it
more interesting.
7. Tagul
• We used a programme called
Tagul to create a mind map of our
chosen topic when we had
decided what our main idea
was,which was phobias.
• Once we had a variety of ideas we
put them into Tagul and with the
chosen words created a heart
shape. This was used to show
ideas for the documentary content
that I could then refer back too
later on when I needed
inspiration.
8. Adobe Photoshop
• We used Photoshop to create our
print advertisement which allowed us
to be as close as possible to creating a
stereotypical ‘Channel 4’
advertisement. During the editing
process we found it was quite difficult
to match up the two images so we
tweaked the images using Photoshop
tools which allowed us to make it look
professional and both of the images
even. Doing this, made it look like a
typical print advertisement by using
Channel 4’s codes and conventions.
9. Adobe Premiere
• During the editing process we spent a lot of time using
Adobe Premiere as we used it to create our documentary
as it allows you to cut clips down, place them in any
order, add audio and speed and slow down clips.
• As it allows you to manipulate video and audio it helped us
make our vox pops interviews sound a lot more
professional as there was some background voice which
was distracting from what the person was saying.
• We also used Adobe Premiere to create our radio advert.
By recording our advert in an enclosed radio room through
audacity and then transferring it to adobe premiere, it was
edited in the same way our documentary was by adding
music and extra sound effects to make it sound more
professional and interesting.
10. Audacity
• We used Audacity to create our radio advertisement
and the voice over for the documentary.
• It was very simple to record it, by using a
microphone to speak into, you pressed the record
button whilst it was recording and pressed the stop
button when it was finished.
• We used our radio room in college to record our
advert and then transferred it to Premiere to edit
and cut it down on a separate file.
11. Youtube
• At the start of the year we used
YouTube to watch documentaries
on when we were analysing them
and finding out the general codes
and conventions of a
documentary.
• We also uploaded our final
version of our documentary onto
YouTube to convert it onto our
blogs and put onto facebook to
get audience feedback.
