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

2. Research stage:
We used the search engine google
in our research stage, searching for
things such like ‘chocolate facts’
‘fair-trade facts’ and songs related
to chocolate. This is where we
found information that was helpful
in our narration script writing, it
offered plenty of information that
we needed about the history and
production of chocolate. It was a
big help in what we needed to
achieve throughout, and provided
us with all our archive footage
images.

3. Canon XM2.
• This is the camera we used for the majority of our filming, it worked very well in
capturing high quality footage. Although we did encounter a problem with our
camera as it was corrupt so therefore our footage was damaged and has thick grey
lines running across the screen meaning we had to refilm a lot of our work. Then
with our new camera it worked well with the additional equipment we had for it
including the tripod and microphone. The camera is pretty straight forward to use
once you are aware of the controls and playing back to watch the footage is simple
enough to achieve. The zoom and the panning was smooth meaning we have
higher quality footage and therefore it is a lot easier to edit and have a more
genuine effect to it.

4. Video Capture leads.
• This is the lead we used to
connect to the camera and
then into the jvc decks, it
enabled us to get up the
footage we had on the
camera in order to capture
and select the correct
footage. In order to use
this lead we had to know
how to use premiere and
the recording tool so that
we could capture our work
from the camera.

5. Premiere pro.
• This is the software we used in capturing,
editing and finalising the documentary.
Once the basic tools are given it is a easy
software to use and is a reliable software to
edit your footage on. It has a good layout
where everything linked to each other are
presented together so that it can enable me
to know what action to take next. As there
are two screens you can easily see what you
are editing and how that has worked, there
are two windows one for the cutting and the
other as the final piece, this worked well as
after we edited something we could then
put it into the documentary and watch over
it to see how well it worked. The timeline
was a very important part to the software as
this is wear we put all the edited parts so
that we could see how well it ran together
and also how long the documentary went on
for. Although we did encounter some
problems with using premiere, from it
crashing and loosing unsaved worked to
their being errors with the exporting.