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

2. Sony HXR-MC2000E
Filming
Once we had collected all our footage that we needed for the documentary
we had to edit the footage so we could get rid of the footage that was
unneeded, we did this by using the razor tool on Adobe Premier Pro which
allowed us to split footage into different parts then we could delete the
sections that we did not need.

3. Transition Effects/Video Effects
When we had a rough draft of our documentary we needed to
add some transitions, to make our documentary more dynamic,
to add these we went to the effects tab (as seen in the
screenshot below) We used the fade out transition from going
from interview subject to the next. Another way we fading out
the clips is to change the opaque level making it fade out to
black.

4. Graphics
We also needed to add graphics, we used graphics for when we
first introduce the bands and artists we interviewed so the
audience knows who the interview subjects are letting them
know the relevancy of the artists/bands. We added these titles
by going to File>New>Title. We then had to select what font
style we wanted to use and also where it should be positioned
on the frame.

5. Changed Brightness
We had to change the brightness for some of our shots
because some of our shots were not well lit, we did this
by using the brightness and contract effect on premier,
here we could change the brightness level and also the
contrast to make our clips seem more bright.

6. Audio Balancing
With using sound beds we had to adjust the volume
levels of our clips and the music track underneath the
documentary we did this by using Audio Balancing. To
do this we had to select the clip we wanted to adjust
the volume for and then go to audio effects, and then
adjust the level using the sliders provided.

7. Blogger
I used blogger as a portfolio tool so I can display all of
the work that has been done for my media project to
be displayed and viewed from. Blogger allowed me to
create new posts and embed slideshows I’ve created
from Slideshare.net via using the html page when
creating a new blog post.
My blog html is;
http://danielboylea2media.blogspot.co.uk/

8. Slideshare.net
I used Slideshare so I can upload my PowerPoint
presentations onto my Blogger, I used this so I
can have my presentations visible on my blog
rather than having them in a standard text
format. After uploading my presentation to
blogger it would provide me with an embed
code.

9. Adobe Photoshop
We used Photoshop to create our poster advert, we
used various tools to create our finished product. To
add the strapline to our poster we used the Text tool,
this was on the toolbar, as we used white text we
needed to create a black background which wrapped
around the text, to achieve this we added a new layer
where we used the rectangle tool, and then moved our
text layer in front of the shape layer so the text would
be visible.

10. Layering
When creating our poster we used a lot of
layering, we had an initial background in mind,
we then wanted to have an image of two
unsigned artists performing in front of that but
we wanted it to be shadow like as to say that
these artists still have street roots and they
haven’t quite made it in to the main music scene
just yet. We achieved this by playing around
with the layers