question 4 evaluation

1. Q4. How did you use media
technologies in the
construction, research,
planning & evaluation stage?

2. While planning and research I used lots of different
programmes such as:

3. Research
 To research for our documentary, I got most of my help from the internet and
websites such as YouTube. I did this on the iMac. Google was another useful
search engine that I used while undergoing my research, I used Google to search
documentary codes and conventions on which our documentary should follow,
 My phone internet was also available for research. I used the phone internet when
we weren't near a computer with internet access and we if we needed to find out
quick information to help our media project. E.g when filming
 Documentaries were also available for research on TV videos which showed
different genres of documentaries and different shot types and locations were
used. We got ideas from all of the existing documentaries and we analysed what
we liked about them and what we hated about them and used the ideas in our
documentary.

4. Blogger- Research & Planning
 We used Blogger a lot in our project to write about our work as we went along
with it. Blogger was good as it was easy to use to keep track of our progress
while working. We blogged every step that we went along with, from introduction
to our project to the evaluation of our project.
 Blogger was useful as we could embed pictures and videos to show where we
were getting our ideas and inspiration from
 We could also embed all of our planning documents – such as our target
audience questionnaire and shooting schedule
 I used Blogger like a diary, constantly updating it with ideas and progress, after
filming shoots and editing days

5. Microsoft Office- Research &
Planning
Microsoft office helped me during my project. It was useful and it was easy to
access and use.
I used Microsoft Excel when I was constructing my
questionnaire. It helped me convert my digit answers and
responses to graphs, bar charts and pie charts.
The graphs were easy to make and they were easy to
understand.
I used Microsoft Word to write up my risk assessment and to
also complete other tasks on. Word was also used to
construct our questionnaire and print it out to give to our
audience to answer.

6. Bluetooth, Mobile phone, Laptop, Ipad and iMac-
Research & planning.
 My phone helped me during the planning stage as it was great for organisation
and meeting up with my partner and making plans on when was best to film.
 During the filming stage, we took lots of pictures on our phone and we sent it to
our iMacs with the use of the Bluetooth application. It was very useful and
reliable.
 I also used my laptop to do lots of research at home on the internet when I
wasn’t in school. I was able to go on YouTube to listen and watch documentaries
from my genre, Google to research anything I needed to know. And because my
laptop is not reliable as it is worn out, my Ipad was available for further
research.

7. Construction
 In the construction stage, the iMac was used to operate the various software.
Panasonic camera (NV-GS500)- this is the camera that we used to film our music
video. Along with this camera we used a tripod to hold our camera still and to
get perfect footage. After filming, we uploaded our footage unto the iMac with a
firewire and uploaded it to Adobe premier pro, here we chose the footage we
wanted to include in the video, included it in our timeline, edited the video,
added video transitions.
We also used Adobe InDesign to make our double page spread of our
documentary.
We also used the still camera a lot to take pictures of locations that we filmed in
and we uploaded them on our blog and explained why we thought the place we
filmed in was necessary.

8. Editing- Premier Pro & Photoshop
 To edit our video, we used Premier Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-
based video editing software application. Premiere Pro supports many video
editing cards and plug-ins for accelerated processing, additional file format
support, and video/audio effects.
 Premiere Pro also integrates with Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop files can be
opened directly from Premiere Pro to be edited in Photoshop. Any changes will
immediately be updated when the Photoshop file is saved and focus returns to
Premiere Pro.
Snapshot of a timeline.

9. A typical image of our video during the construction process.

10. Evaluation- Adobe After Effects.
 Adobe After Effects- is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published
by Adobe Systems, used in the post-producing process of filmmaking and television
producing. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual
effects compositing and finishing (image adjustment, colour correction etc.). After Effects can
also be used as a basic non-linear editor and a media transcoder.
 We used this for the post production of our video. This was where we developed
all stages of production occurring after the actual end of shooting and/or recording the of our
completed work
 We carried out the following processes -:
- Video editing the picture of a television program using an edit decision list (EDL)
- Adding visual special effects
- Adding sound effects & sound design
- Colour correction
All this was done to make our video look more professional and attractive.

11. Screenshot of Adobe After Effects.

12. Evaluation- Blogger
 Blogger was used to record our filming, editing, research and
planning activities that was done throughout our process.
 Blogger was easy to access on the iMac, my personal laptop,
my iTouch, my phone and my iPad.
 I kept my blog up to date. It was used to summarise
processes, embedding images and embedding videos.
 I tried to analyse my data on Blogger and write in detail so
that I could make my stages clear.
 Signing onto my blog, making & editing posts and publishing
them was not hard to do on Blogger, it was a very easy
procedure.

13. Evaluation- PowerPoint/Slideshare
 For my evaluation we used PowerPoint to map out all out the visual presentation
and then in order to post it on the blog, it had to be converted into slideshare.
They were both easy to use and converting the PowerPoint to slideshare was not
particularly hard.