The student used various media technologies at different stages of their documentary project. In the research stage, they used search engines, video websites, and online newspapers to gather information. They also used Facebook, SurveyMonkey, and Microsoft Word questionnaires to survey their target audience. For planning, they created documents in Word and a storyboard in Comic Life. To evaluate their work, they administered Word questionnaires and created graphs in PowerPoint and documents on Scribd and SlideShare to present their findings. They uploaded all of their work to a Blogger site to organize it.

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

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

3. Final Cut Express

4. Log and Transfer
• This is how we uploaded our
videos from our folders to
Final Cut Express

5. Text
• We added text in a appropriate places to
reinforce what we were saying to the
audience.

6. Transitions
• We added transitions to
make our documentary
run smoothly and look
professional when
switching between
different places and
people.

7. Exporting
• We exported
the
documentary
so we could
upload it to
Youtube

8. Uploading to Youtube
• We uploaded
to Youtube
so we could
upload our
video onto
our Blog

9. GarageBand

10. Music
• We selected music from on Garageband to
use, we picked the same 2 sounds and
repeated them over and over.

11. Changed sound levels
• In order to make sure our music levels were
the same we selected this tool
• We then clicked where we wanted the levels
to change and dragged the dots to the
appropriate place
• Also, for our music, we used this to have it
slowly build up to full level and at the end
slowly mute down so the sounds weren’t too
harsh

12. Adobe inDesign

13. I inserted the title of the article using
the icon.

14. I added more text using the icon.
I added a drop
capital
I used three columns
for this to make it look
professional And I changed the
alignment of the text

15. I added a slogan and rotated it
using the button
I added a grab
quote, I
changed the
outline to
make it stand I added the name of the magazine
out more and the page numbers

16. I added these
images using the
button
to regulate their
sizing.
I used text to
anchor the
images

17. I added these
images using the
button
to regulate their
sizing.
I used text to
anchor the
images

18. And this was the final product...

19. Photoshop – See Scribd document
Also, see Scribd’s
‘What I have learnt – Equipment’
and
‘What I have learnt – Editing’

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

21. • As a basis of research we used search engines
to gain information on facts, figures etc. This
enabled us to access figures from worldwide
and from years previously. This enables us to
paint a picture of what Teen Pregnancy rates
were like.

22. • We also used video websites to watch
similar documentaries to ours to learn
the conventions and get ideas.

23. • We read newspapers online to find
relevant stories and shocking
headlines

24. • In 2011 48% of young people said they go their news
through Facebook*. Due to this and the fact that our
target audience of our documentary makes up the
majority of users on Facebook, we thought this would be
a good way to ask people about what magazines they
would be most likely to use. In a Facebook message we
asked 30 people within our target audience age
range, the majority of people we asked were females as
this was our main target audience also however, we
asked some males.
*http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/facebook-statistics-stats-facts-2011/

26. We used SurveyMonkey to produce an
online survey which made it easy to

27. We also used Microsoft Word to create
questionnaires to be handed out to people
to fill in.

28. We then used Microsoft programs
such as Word, Powerpoint or Excel to
create graphs demonstrating the
results of the questionnaires, this
enabled us to make decisions based on
our target audience research results.

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

30. We presented our ideas using many
different formats including:

31. We created a plan for the DPs using
word

32. We created a storyboard for the
documentary using Comic Life

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

34. We presented our ideas using many
different formats including:

35. We also used Microsoft Word to create
questionnaires to be handed out to people
to fill in to evaluate our work.

36. Based on these results we produced
graphs in powerpoint

37. We created documents using Scribd to
present our evaluations

38. Finally, we produced Slideshare’s to
present our evaluation information

39. The most important media technology
we used was Blogger. This enabled us
to upload all of the work we had done
into one place, order it based on which
subheading it needed to come under
and edit it as required.

40. Overall
• Overall I feel we used all resources available to us, we
use numerous forms to present the information in
including Prezi’s, Word documents on Scribd and
PowerPoints on SlideShare.
• We also used Comic Life to produce a storyboard
rather than just producing one by hand.
• We didn’t just use images off the internet we used
Photoshop to edit images to create our own feel to
them.
• I feel we utilised all the media technologies available to
us to ensure that our work was up to a high quality and
that our research was accurate and our planning and
evaluations are easy to understand and well presented