media

2. Throughout the research process of our Media product, we looked into what
Genre our documentary would be, who our Target Audience would be and so
on. We (Me and my group members) had to make presentations during the
process of research, and we found a means of making the presentations
together with Google Slides. Google Slides enables multiple accounts to work
on the same presentation at the same time. With this, we were able to get our
work done at a quicker and more sufficient pace, it also made our work more
organized. Google Slides is something I didn’t use in AS so with it, I’ve Me
and my group have been able to get more done, in terms of doing research on
Modes of Documentaries, Narrative theories, History of Documentaries etc.

3. To present the work I had done, I used Microsoft
Word, which is what I used to present my Audience
Questionnaire (image on the right). I wrote the
questions down, put options below them and tallied
up the answers, the question sheets where pulled
out from a Printer.
More of my presentation work for my research was
done on Microsoft PowerPoint. After all my
presentations where done, I transferred them onto
Blogger, this is where I kept tabs of all my work and
diaries. The way I used blogger is; I either turned
my document into a JPEG and embedded it as an
image, or I put the document in Slideshare, coped
the link and pasted (embedded) it into Blogger,
ready for presentation. I was also able to post
videos on YouTube and use the HTML link to place it
in Blogger.

4. And lastly, I used Microsoft Excel to use the results from my questionnaire’s
to see what my main Target Audience (Students) wanted/where expecting in
my documentary. In AS I did not use Excel but this year I learned how to
make pie charts to show an obvious representation what qualities my
documentary needs to possess. With this my documentary was manipulated
in a way to be more aesthetically for my viewers, especially for my target
audience. And it gave me a clear indication of what genre my documentary
should, what theory I should work under, mode etc.

5. A hegemonic norm is that teens spend most of the time on their phones
procrastinating. That’s far from the truth as me and my group members did
most of our planning for our media product on our phones. We started off
having a Whatsapp Group chat we’re we would delegate who would do what
and when, then we would carry out our assigned duties. Soon we switched
from Whatsapp to Snapchat, this is where we made a new group chat and
carried on giving each other particular tasks to fulfil for our Media product.
Eventually towards the end we knew what we had to do and soon only used
Snapchat to text each other concerning what free days we had as that was the
time we used to finish off our documentary.

6. I planned to get some expert
interviews in with some
teachers in Solihull Sixth
Form, the way I was able to
contact them was Tyber,
which allows me to search
sup staff in my college and
compose a message to them.
I messaged them asking for
permission to do an
interview and they set a date
and time. Lastly, when I was
out getting shots, I had a
booking sheet I used to plan
out how long how would use
the camera and other details
(image on the right)

7. I focused on 4 main things for my
construction:
• Camera & Tripod:
• DPS EDITING SOFTWARES:
• DOCUMENTARY EDITING SOFTWARE:
• RADIO AND AUDIO

8. Camera & Tripod:
I used the camera to capture my footage and the
tripod. The Tripod (right images) is what I used to
keep the camera still while recording. I used this to
rotate the camera, pan it and overall make better
shots. In AS I took basic and unprofessional shots
but in A2 I learned more about variations of shots
like medium shots, establishing shots etc, and I
took these shots which made my documentary look
better and more professional. In AS (involving
camera work) I only knew how to take pictures, but
now I had to learn how to take videos. In A2 I
learned how to record videos. I also learned how to
zoom in and zoom out of shots as well as stay in
focus. After using all my new found knowledge to
record appropriate footage, I learned how to
transfer the footage from the camera to the
computer with a USB lead. After that I started
editing....

9. DPS EDITING SOFTWARES:
I used a computer to edit my captured footage for my documentary and DPS. To
make my DPS I used Photoshop and InDesign. With InDesign I had to Embed my
image, I then added text to it, changed my image to suit the DPS design, I put
my text in columns and changed their colour, height and added a stroke to
make it look better for the headlines, I also put a background colour to make a
more attractive colour scheme, then overlapped everything over the colour.
Photshop was used to transfer a text from there to InDesign in which I placed in
my DPS. The text came from DaFont, which I used to get an ideal font and
screenshotted it, trimmed off the white, and then placed onto my DPS, in where
I edited it even more to make it look better

10. DOCUMENTARY EDITING SOFTWARE:
To edit my documentary, I used the editing software Adobe Premiere. In AS the
only way I knew how to make a video was movie maker, and I found this
unreliable as the videos where often lagging and the quality worsened.
However, I learned how to use Premiere in A2, with my footage, I learned how to
place them, how to cut them down/shorten them with the scissor tool. I also
learned how to add text by clicking ‘Title’ and then ‘Default Still’ and from there
I typed in what I needed. I learned how to speed up clips to present a time lapse
and better my establishing shots and Mise en Sceene. We even added audio, but
some of the audio clips where inconsistent, so we used the ‘Audio Gains’ option
and changed our pitch making it louder or softer. With all this new found
knowledge, I was able to make a better, cleaner and more professional video as
appose to in AS, this was a big step up in A2.

11. RADIO AND AUDIO
I had to edit my radio advert but before I could
do that I had to capture audio, and to do that I
used a recording device. This was not
something I was used to in AS but it made
things such as my videos and diary vlogs
easier to make. I captured audio by recording
it on the device, then used a USB lead to
transfer it to my computer. After I was ready, I
opened Garage Band, the software I would use
to edit my radio advert. I put the clips in the
right place, cut them when needed with a
scissor tool, and of course edited the sounds
to make it louder or softer where needed. To
add sound affects to make it feel like a real
scenario, I went to the media website and
downloaded sound effects from there. With the
sound effects saved into my downloads, I
added them to my radio and finished the
product.

12. The technology I used for my Evaluation was my phone to capture footage and
edit it on iMovie. With this I cut the clips and cropped them and put it
altogether. I also used my computers editing software Sony Vegas to put the
rest of my documentary together than exported it, rendered and posted it. I also
used Vizme to present one of my questions. Everything was embedded with an
embed code than transfered to my Blogger for presentation