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

2. Construction
Adobe Premier
Documentary: When constructing the
documentary we mostly used Adobe
premier. When altering the audio we used
the sound controls to make sure no track
was to loud or to quiet and could add
separate tracks to each part of audio if it
needed altering or special effects due to
its sound condition. When inserting
cutaways, we were able to unlink the
audio so that the interview was still easily
heard, and the different layers of feed
meant it was easy to move clips around,
to insert and replace them and to layer
clips over one another.

3. Construction
Adobe Premier
Radio: We also used Adobe Premier to
produce our radio piece, this involved picking
out clips from our documentary, and removing
the visual, so the we just had the basic audio,
which was extremely easy through the use of
Adobe, we simply added another tab for our
radio and were able to copy and paste the
appropriate clips across. Adding the scripted
voice over involved the use of a
, after
recording in a quiet room, we inserted the
most useable piece and added a selection of
sound effects. We also collected this from the
original documentary so the combination
between the main produce and the radio was
easily identified.

4. Construction
Photoshop
Documentary: Photoshop was used to create
the lower third title which identified to the
audience whom was speaking. We took the
format of twitter to fit with what our
audience had associated the most with social
networking in our questionnaire before our
filming began. To do this it involved taking a
screen cap of twitter, inserting text and using
a magic brush tool to remove the colour we
didn’t need, before then exporting and
inserting it into our piece.
Newspaper Advertisement: Photoshop was
used to create the newspaper advertisment.
We used a selection of different tools to alter
the appearance of a photo we had taken of
an eye. With the use of the quick selection,
magic wand and the eraser tool, and altered
the levels. We also used the text book and
shape tool to add the subtitles and headings
to our poster.

5. Light room
We only used light room briefly,
and this was to edit and construct
our main image before inserting it
into Photoshop to produce our
newspaper advertisement. We
applied a black and white effect
which created a strong contrast
between the darker and lighter
tones, which adds drama. We also
used the tone curve tool which
adjusted this effect slightly by
changing the highlights and
shadows within the image, which
made the picture more eye
catching and intriguing, a key
feature of newspaper
advertisements.

6. Research and Evaluation
Blogger
Blogger was used mostly for the
planning and evaluation of my
documentary. On blogger, there were
a collection of different research and
evaluation posts we did toward our
documentary. We used blogger to
present this individually which
allowed our group to transfer
different research and work we had
found. And also it provides proof of
the individual stages we went
through as a group in planning and
producing our documentary. Our
work was displayed through a
variation of different technologies.

7. Research and Evaluation
Prezi
I used Prezi to present a collection of research
and information to provide help in displaying
it in a informative and professional way. I used
in mostly in listing the codes and conventions,
such as conventions of a documentary, of a
newspaper article and a radio advertisement.
Using this mind map format made the
information clearly readable and helped me
when developing my own ideas. It was good
to use within the group for passing over
information, through the user of blogger we
could upload them easily for the rest of the
group to view and collect information from.

8. Research and Evaluation
Slideshare
I used slideshare for similar reasons to Prezi,
to present information and the evaluation.
Using this allowed me to create numerous
slides of text and images and looked more
presentable then just inserting it into the
blog. It also meant when we looked back on
our work such as research and our
questionnaire results it was in one place and
was easy to find, and it was beneficial.
Likewise to prezi the information was
displayed in a creative yet simple form which
meant going back to it when needed was
extremely easy.

9. Camera and tripod.
For filming our documentary we used a Sony
DCR-SD 1000E and a tripod. This allowed us to
create great quality footage and through the
use of a clip mic we were able to get the correct
sound for our interviews. However, at one point
due to a faltered battery within the clip mic, we
were unable to use it, during our interview with
Appitized. So had to use the larger microphone
in order to still get an interview filmed. We also
had issues with a tripod, meaning the footage
was not as good as it could have been, however
this only occurred with this interview, the others
were filmed properly with the correct
equipment, and over all it provided an extreme
help in producing good quality footage to a
professional standard.

10. Zoom voice recorder
When recording our narration
we used a zoom voice
recorder. This was a simple
recoding device which when
used could create a
professional sounding piece of
narration, which when added
to our documentary allowed it
to be heard easily without
influencing any other clips or
audio. It was easy to use and
we simply went into a small
quiet room to read our script.