Evaluation question 4

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Evaluation Q4
How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and Evaluation stages?
Ahmad Wahab

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Documentary
Research, Planning, Construction and Editing

3. Research
We started of by making a mind map of
different topics that we were thinking of
doing.
We narrowed it down to; Technology in
Sport, Travel and Student life
We then decided to do Technology in Sport
and once we decided on this topic it was
easy for us to look into the topic
We found from using search engines that
our topic that Technology in sport is very
broad and wide and decided to focus on the
controversial topics, i.e. the use of goal line
technology in football
The internet was a great source of
information to use for information on our
topic. We used Google Chrome and Safari.

4. Research
S We also the internet to research into
various media institutions and
different channels that we can air our
program on.
S The chanel we went for was BB1,
because our research showed that
they had a lot of views as well as a
good budget.

5. Planning
From the research we found we
it easy to create a basic
storyboard for our documentary.
Technology also allowed us to
arrange our interviews.
We used Tyber, The messaging
system for college and social
networks like Facebook allowed
us to communicate with our
experts and arrange our
interviews

6. Construction
Technology has allowed us to
construct our documentary quickly.
The use of a hand-held camera
allowed us to go out and use
different locations to film our
documentary.
The use of a tripod was useful
since it allowed us to take steadier
shots for our documentary and
allowed us to make it more
professional.
We used a microphone so that we
were able to get a clearer audio
from our interviews and minimalise
background noise

7. Editing
S Once we gathered all of our
footage and still, we used
Adobe Premiere Pro to put
our documentary together
and to add effects.

8. Premiere
Pro
We used different effects and tool to
make our documentary look
professional and official.
1. We used the transition tools to
make our scene changes smooth
2. We used a tool that allowed us to
change the sound levels so that
our documentary would have
consistent sound levels, making
it sound more professional
3. We used tools like the title
maker, to make our title and put
information on the screen. Which
we used for our interviews
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Radio Trailer
Research, Planning, Construction and Evaluation

10. Research
We used online radio and
YouTube to research into
conventions into Radio Trailers.
This allowed us to get a idea of
how our Radio should sound
like in order to make it
professional. We looked into
trailers that were roughly about
30-50 seconds. We also
searched codes and
conventions of a radio trailer to
get a better idea of making a
radio Trailer. For this we found
sites, thanks to google.

11. Planning
S For our radio trailer we
also used Microsoft Word
to write the script for the
voice over. This was very
useful since it allowed us
to type it in a script layout
and it also meant that it
was easy for us to make
changes to it especially if
we make a mistake.

12. Construction
For our radio trailer we used a
professional recording device
for our voiceover.
This was great since it allowed
us to make record a very clear
and loud voiceover with little
background noise.

13. Editing
S Premiere Pro was also very useful since it allowed us
take snippets from the documentary to add into our radio
trailer
S For our Radio Trailer we used garageband to put it all
together.

14. Garag
eBand
We used different tools to make our
radio trailer and make it sound
sound professional.
1. GarageBand was very useful
since it was easy to import
sound and arrange them into
our desired order
2. We used a sound manipulation
tool to make our radio trailer
sound consistent throughout
3. We used the tools to make
fade our music at the end to
make the trailer have a better
finish
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Magazine Double Page
Spread
Research, Planning, Construction and Editing

16. Research
S For our research we used Google image search engine
to find magazine articles that were based on TV and Film.
From this we found what were written and the topics that
they talked about. We also used the research to find
conventions used by RadioTimes so that we can
recreate what they used.

17. Planning
Form the research we found
we created a double page
spread on paper, which
helped us to decide on what
we wanted in the article, and
therefore made it easier in the
construction and editing
stages.

18. Construction
S For the actual construction, we
used Microsoft Word to type
the article up.
S We took stills from our
documentary for our pictures,
this was easy as we were able
to take screenshots thanks to
the computer and since
Premiere pro also allowed us to
save still images

19. Editing
For the magazine article, we
used Photoshop to make the
background of the picture of
the referee transparent. We
then used InDesign to put the
article together.

20. InDesign
We used InDesign to make our magazine
double page spread and make a professional
and official looking article from the Radio
Times.
1. InDesign allowed us to place our image
in its desired location and allowed us to
sort out which pictures would be at the
back and which ones at the front, i.e.
football pitch at the back, referee at the
front.
2. We then used InDesign to add the
make it look like the RadioTimes, i.e. the
placement of the logo, and date
3. InDesign was also great for the article
since it had the ability to automatically
sort our text according to different font
sizes and content for example when we
placed the quote, the text behind it
wrapped around the quote so nothing
was overlapped
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