The document discusses the equipment and software used to create a documentary. A Sony HXR-MC2000E video camera was used for filming, which has 1080p video and long battery life. Adobe Premier Pro CS5 was used for editing and provided effects like keyframing. A Dell XPS computer with an i7 processor and 16GB of RAM handled playback and editing without issues. Clip microphones captured audio during interviews to reduce background noise. Adobe Photoshop CS5 created name bars and layered images. Microsoft Word and Excel were used in the planning stages. Research was conducted using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. The final documentary was posted to a Blogging site.

1. Question 4

2.  For constructing our documentary we used a Sony HXR-MC2000E video
camera. It is a professional spec camera with High Definition 1080p video. Its
battery life is 280 minutes without the need to charge again. This made it
really easy to film long interviews and filming sessions without the worry of
running out of battery. It has optical steady shot which makes sure most if
not all shots aren’t shaking on screen and ‘wobbling’ which usually occurs
when videos are used as handheld or when walking without a tripod. It has a
solid state hard drive which uses less power, quick responsiveness and is
almost impossible to break, something CD’s, Tapes and other types of
memory aren’t.

3. To upload our footage onto the computer from the
camera a simple USB to device cable was used which
was fast and simple and no messing around with tapes
and burning it onto the computer.
The computer used was a Dell XPS with an i7 processor and
16GB of RAM, because of this high spec we had no
problems with playback when editing and no buffering
occurred.
For the sound in the interviews we used clip microphones
rather than the on board microphone the camera has so we
could cut out any unnecessary background noise.
For the narration we used a professional radio DJ
microphone in a sound proof booth to record.

4.  To edit our footage and construct it into a documentary we had to use Adobe Premier Pro CS5. This gave
us a lot of effects to choose from including key-framing, chroma-key and sound balancing which in the
end made the documentary sound and look professional.
For the name bars that go across the screen for the
documentary interviews we used Adobe Photoshop CS5.
We needed a layered image for the vinyls and images to go
across the screen and Photoshop made this simple and
quick whilst keeping the professional look.

5. For the Poster we had to edit what was shown on
the iPhone screen to 10 years of music and this was
easily done with the lasso tool around the edge of
the screen then fill in the box.
We used Microsoft Word and excel in the planning
stages to put questionnaires together, and then edit where do you get your
the data into pie charts, note ideas and plans in music from?
word which helped us come up with the music
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6. We used web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla
Firefox for our documentary research and
construction. YouTube was what we mainly used the
browsers for to get archive footage and music to
play over some footage, Firefox was perfect for this
as it has a lot of add-ons and plug ins which allow
you to download MP4 videos straight from YouTube.
The main aim of the web was to put all our work on
blogging site Blogger, we kept a diary of everything
we have done including research, construction and
planning, along with the final piece and this
evaluation.
We used SlideShare to put the word document with
pie charts from our questionnaire research onto
Blogger.