The document discusses the various media technologies used to create a music documentary. A Sony HXR_MC2000E camera was used to record high quality footage around Warrington town centre and Priestley College. A Manfrotto tripod supported the camera during interviews. Footage was transferred to Dell computers using the Sony camera's USB cable. Additional hardware included USB ports to import files from drives and a SanDisk USB drive for file storage. The Sony camera's clip microphones captured interview audio, while a studio microphone was used with Audacity software. Adobe Premier was used to edit clips and add sound, and Adobe Photoshop edited title graphics. Microsoft Word was used to copy work to a blogger account, while YouTube

1. A2 Media Studies PowerPoint
Evaluation
Brad Hampson

2. Question 4
How did you use media technologies in
the construction, research planning &
evaluation stages?

3. During the process of creating my music documentary, I used a variety of
different hardware in order to help create the documentary. For example, we
used the Sony HXR_MC2000E camera when recording footage for our
documentary. This was a really great camera to use in terms of producing the
documentary, because the picture quality was amazing, and it was able to
balance out any slight shaking. The majority of our footage was taken around
Warrington town centre, Priestley College, and even Manchester.
We also used a Manfrotto tripod when recording our B-roll footage. This was a
really well supported tripod, which was really handy when we were
interviewing subjects for our documentary as I could imply the rule of thirds
without quirkiness.
In order to transfer any footage taken with this camera, I needed to be able to
use the Sony’s USB cable. This cable plugs into the college’s media studies
computers. The computers we have at our college are the DELL XPS Pc’s.
These contain 16 G Ram Hard Drives, which allow us to store a lot of footage
and other pieces of work for our blog accounts also.

4. Other Hardware's Used
In order to import and export files from hard drives and
pen sticks, I was able to connect them with the use of
USB ports. By doing this, I was able to import data from
the cameras when recording, and upload them onto a
personal file. I am currently using an 8GB SanDisk
Cruzer Blade pen drive, which has been really
beneficial when storing lots of work.
In order to get top quality sound when I and my group
were interviewing, we used the Sony camera’s clip
microphones. These were attached to the interviewee,
but we made sure that you couldn’t see them when
recording. We also used a microphone in Priestley
College’s radio room. We hooked it up to a software
programme called Audacity. We were able to do some
editing with this software as well as just recording,
which was really useful to use!

5. Software – Adobe
After only a few weeks in the production of making a
documentary, I have learnt how to use Adobe Premier CS5, in
a way where I can produce a music magazine, from editing
clips with a cut tool to adding in sound beds for my music
documentary. After finally finishing the documentary in a few
months, I feel confident on how to produce my own
documentary with this software, as it is easy to use and it’s
very “up-to-date” in terms of the technology used to make this
software.
Like in my first year of Media Studies, I also got the opportunity
to use the Adobe Photoshop CS5 software. I predominantly
used this software when I edited a small title for each of the
interviewee’s. I found this software really easy to
use, because I know how to use certain tools better. For
example, I was able to use paste several vinyl records into
one title box, and change the hue and saturation, as well as
the colour of each vinyl in order to give them a different colour
in the centre.

6. Software – Microsoft Office
During the process of making my
documentary, I used some of the
Microsoft Office programmes, which
allowed me to copy what I had saved
on their onto my blogger account. For
instance, I had used Microsoft Word to
paste parts of work onto my blog

7. Software – Internet
Programmes
In order to import archive footage for the music
documentary, I was able to download plug-ins on
websites such as YouTube. These plug-ins
enabled my to download footage which would
relate to our media project into a file on our
college computer, and then copy the link into
Adobe Premier CS5. I was then able to edit the
footage(s) with the cutting tool into certain places
throughout the documentary.
Another programme I have used is Prezzie / slide
share. Here, I and my group were able to upload
pie charts of an audience feedback from a
questionnaire we handed out to the members of
the public. Once this was uploaded, I could then
copy the link and upload it to another piece of
software known as Blogger.