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

2.  When researching previous documentaries
about gigs, I used software such as Internet
Explorer – using YouTube, and then watched to
find the characteristics of a documentary.
 From there, I then went on to use sites such as
Blogger to record my findings, and so I could
refer back to it at a later date.
 We also used Microsoft Word to record our
findings from our questionnaires, and made
graphs to show their results in a visual manner.

3.  In our documentary, we wanted to use some
archive professional footage. We found
relevant footage on YouTube, then used the
add-on ‘Easy YouTube Video Downloader 6.7’
from Mozilla Firefox. This allowed us to
download the MP3 version of Alex Clare’s
song “Too Close” and some mp4 videos which
we wanted to include.

4. For filming our documentary, we filmed on Sony HXR-MC200E cameras. These
cameras are 1080p quality & solid state therefore, they were the best cameras
we could use. For our filming of the gigs, we emailed the managers vowing to
use this standard of camera. Within our interviews, we also used these for our
interviews, due to our expectations of being on MTV LIVE HD.
We therefore filmed our footage in HD, to make it the best standard that we
could.
In order to make our documentary as
professional as possible, we practised
prior to the ‘official’ filming to ensure we
knew what to do, and how to use the
cameras.
By doing this, we then made our
documentary as professional looking as
we could, by having steady camera work,
appropriate zooms and eye level
interviews.

5.  As well as using Sony HXR camera, we also
attempted to grasp the audience aspect,
therefore used a smaller camera such as
Panasonic Lumix FZ45. This camera was
small and was able to stay within an audience,
to create a variety of shots. We also used this
as it was HD therefore continued our high
quality documentary.

6.  In addition to the Sony Cameras, we also used equipment such
as a Manfrotto tripods, Boom microphones, Clip on
microphones. By using a tripod, it allowed our videos to be
steady, and therefore more professional.
 We used a mixture of microphones to give a different effect. Clip
on mics were used mainly for voice overs and interviews as it was
specific and allowed focus on the speakers voice.
 Whilst filming footage for our gigs, we used boom mics to
ensure to record the ambience sound from the performer and
crowd.
 The last piece of equipment we used is headphones, which we
used whilst filming. We did this to ensure the sound quality was
right, and everything which needed to be heard, was.

7.  In order to make our documentary, we had to use
numerous amounts of software, on a XPS Dell
Computer. The most important software we used was
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, which we used to edit our
documentary. This software gave our documentary a
professional look, and also provided us with effects,
transitions and audio adjustments.
 These included fill left - to ensure sound is heard in both
headphones (mainly used for voiceovers and interviews)
and transitions such as fade to black.

9.  We also used another aspect of
 We also used tools such as the
Adobe – Photoshop – to make
Polygonal lasso tool. This
our advertisement. This was
allowed us to carefully outline
also professional, and
the image parts which we did
therefore allowed our poster to
not want, and then to delete it
be created like we had planned.
This was most used when we
We used tools such as the
removed the inner parts of the
Magic Wand Tool which we
logo and to remove the
used to remove large parts of
background in particular
the MTV logo.
places.

10.  Once added the Alex  Within our poster, we
Clare photo, we carried a colour
wanted to add an scheme of yellow.
overlay to ensure a Therefore we wanted
to add some colour to
more exciting and our MTV logo to carry
relevant poster. We the themes, and to
then took a Bitmap make it bright. For this,
image from our Alex we used ‘fill bucket’
Clare master shot then which filled certain
added that upon the parts of the logo, into
image. the colour we wanted.

11.  All of editing and research was done on an
XPS Dell Computer. This PC was able to hold
all of our files, as well as the software we
needed. Due to the work being in a group, it
also allowed us to put the work on a shared
drive, so we were all able to access it.
The computer also has USB ports,
which was essential as we
always needed to import footage
via the USB cable.