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

2. After all the filming and planning for the documentary was
complete we needed to put it all together in order for it to be a
documentary, to do this we used our skills on final cut pro to make it
look as professional as we could.
As I had never used final cut before I had to try and pick it up straight
away and quite quickly in order to get as much done in the little time
we had.
The advantages of working with a lovely group is that we all had
different skills to bring together; we could all help each other's
weaknesses with our strengths

3. How to log and transfer
After everything was ready to be put together, and we’d uploaded all the video
footage to our area, we needed to do something called log and transfer; this is
basically adding all of the videos onto final cut in order for them to be edited.
After I had opened final cut I clicked on file then log and transfer
This then came up
When this comes up I needed to find where I saved all my videos and click open
this then puts them into final cut

4. After I had done this I then needed
to rename the videos and add the
ones I wanted to use in my final
documentary; I knew which ones we
wanted to use because a story
board/plan was made in the
planning process.
Here is where I renamed the ones I wanted to use
Then click add clip to queue and it will add it to the others I
wanted to use

5. After clicking off that, here are all the clips I added ready to be
edited and put together

6. How to add clips to the timeline
To add each video onto the timeline I
would need to cut it where I want to;
to do this I would use the shortcuts
on the keyboard; ‘I’ for in to start and
‘o’ for out to end it.
The two blue arrows would then
appear on the screen and this is
where the video would start and
stop.
To then add this onto the timeline I
would simply drag and drop the clip
I wanted to use into the correct
space.

7. How to add a fade onto a clip
On the right hand side there is a toolbar; on this toolbar there is a
fading tool I used. I used this in order for things to run smoothly
and for there not to be too many straight cuts.
This is the fading tool
In order to do a fade I will need to over lay the two clips otherwise there
will be a black screen between them
All I needed to do is click the top of the clip, with the fading tool, then
drag it to the bottom; the wider spread the line is the bigger the
fade.

8. How to change sound levels on a clip
When listening through clips together I realised that some of
them seemed louder than others. I needed to change this so that
they all sounded the same and no one stood out.
To do this I moved the pink line up and down; this needed a lot of
experimenting and perseverance

9. How to change sound levels on a clip
Sometimes changing the sound levels using the pink line wasn’t
good enough and some clips were still too quiet; to change this I
needed to change the speed, this deepens the voice and slows it
down to make it seem louder.

10. How to add a title/writing onto a clip
After the opening sequence I wanted to put on the title on one
clip; this will open up the documentary. To do this I needed to click
on the clip I wanted to add the text to and click the drop down
menu and then text.
When this menu comes up I put in my text, changed the
size, font and colour. When I have finished this I was then able
to move the text around on the screen.

11. How to add music onto the documentary
To add music to the documentary we would simply drag and
drop the file onto the timeline.
When changing the music we simply place one another next to
each other. (picture above)
Again, to change the volume we would move the pink line up or
down.

12. After we had made the documentary we was asked to make a
magazine article that would try and persuade people to watch the
documentary.
To do this we used InDesign. Due to last years tasks I had already used
this programme and was therefore clued up on how to find my way
around it pretty easily. This programme has a lot of tools that can help
us make the article appeal more to the eye.

13. How to make a layout
To make a layout we simply use text boxes; we do this by using the ‘T’
tool on the toolbar found on the left hand side. This is a way to show
where things will need to go when we start importing pictures and
text.

14. How to add text and change it!
The article was wrote on
a separate article that was
then simply copied and
pasted over to the
layout.
The title was then wrote in
the two text boxes
provided; the font and
style of the text was
changed using the
toolbar at the top of the
page.
The toolbar is used to change the font, the size,
bold, italic or to make it bigger or smaller!

15. How to add text and change it!
When I was happy with how the font looked I then changed the colours
of the font. To do this I clicked on the text and a colour palate came up
on the right hand side; this enables me to change the colour and make
it exactly how I want it to be.

16. How to add text and change it!
Once I had finished with the text I could then add in the images. I
already knew where the pictures needed to be so I therefore just needed
to import them. To import them I just went to file, import, then
import images. After that I would need to find the images I wanted
and then add them to the article.

17. How to add text in a circle
We decided that we wanted to add some
red coloured shapes onto the article; this
would hold little facts about binge
drinking. To do this I had to add a circle; I
clicked on the tiny arrow in the right corner
of the square shape button, this then gave
me the option to draw a circle or a
rectangle. I clicked circle. Once I had drawn
the circle where I wanted the colour palate
came up and I was then able to change the
colour of the circle to make it stand out. To
add text I would just start writing and then
change the style with the toolbar at the
top!

18. Throughout the whole process of making the documentary, radio
trailer and the article we had to upload our evidence and work to a
blog. These were the same blogs as what we used last year and
therefore I knew how to use them.
We needed to upload different things to the blog such as
images, word documents and PowerPoint's. We also needed to
make diary entries as to what we had been doing throughout the
weeks to show how we were getting on; this was simply just wrote
straight onto a post on the blog.

19. How to make a new post on the blog
To make a new post on my blog I
would click the button that looks like a
pencil.
This would then come up. On here
I can then write straight into the
text box or upload images with it.
I would then also need to give it a
title to say what it is I’m
uploading.
When this is all complete I would click publish and then whoever viewed the
blog could see it; I could still go back onto it to change it if I needed to. If I
hadn’t finished with what I was doing I would simply click save and I could go
back to it before publishing it straight onto the blog.

20. How to upload a image to the blog
When making a post where I wanted to upload an
image I would just click on the insert image
button
This would then come up; because I had already saved the pictures to my area
I just needed to click Choose files and find where I’d previously saved the
ones I wanted to upload.
After I had done this I would click add selected and the images would be there
ready to upload.

21. How to labels to the blog
On the right hand side of the post
is something called labels. As this is
a group blog we would all need to
take credit for what we did
individually. By adding a label it
shows who has produced what work.