The document discusses the various media technologies used during the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages of a project. Adobe Premiere was used to edit documentary videos and radio advertisements, allowing adjustment of audio levels between clips. Photoshop and Lightroom were used to edit images and create graphics. Blogger hosted the coursework pieces. SlideShare was used to upload documents and presentations. Tagul helped analyze research by assigning weights to important words. A Sony camera and zoom voice recorder captured interviews and voiceovers, while a tripod was used for support. Prezi was also utilized for presenting work.

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

2. Adobe Premiere CS5
All of the documentary and the radio advert were create on Premiere. We had
multiple tracks for different songs to that we could have them all at different levels. I
feel that this works well as some interviews where quieter then others and we
needed to be able to make them louder and the sound bed under them quieter,
using the audio mixer. When editing the sound I had to put the master volume to -6
so that the when the sound is at its louder it isn't distorted, I then had to make sure
that non of the audio tracks either hit red and were to loud our we too quiet that other
tracks like the music drowned them out. Once each level was correct the line on the
master volume was bounding around -6
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3. Adobe Premiere CS5
Each sound and video clip we imported
separately and each of them had to be edited
whether that was the volume or the brightness
and contrast.
On the sound we added constant gains
between the clip which we were
repeating so that the blended well
together. I think that this worked well
as when you are watching the
documentary you can not tell the
music is repeated and it flows well. We
also used EQ’s and fill lefts on sound
clips which were quieter than the rest
or if the sound was only coming our of
one ear of the head phones. Which
was mainly when we had used the clip
mic since it records in mono instead of
stereo.

4. Photoshop and Lightroom
We used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 briefly during the production of the
newspaper advertisement to edit the main image. We applied a black and white
effect to the photo using the tools within this software which created a strong
contrast between the darker and lighter tones in the image and therefore added
drama. We then used tools such as the black and white mix and tone curve to
adjust the different tones within the image and emphasise this dramatic effect.
We also used Photoshop CS5 to create the inside of the eye, the box text and
inserting the channel 4 logo, because of its easy to use features. We used a
variety of tools such as the magnetic lasso tool and the pen tool which we used to
select the different areas which we wanted to remove to make way for the other
parts of the advertisement. There were different functions within this software
that we used such as the levels and the curves to adjust the appearance of the
tones in the main image further. This was also used to create our lower thirds
titles which identified how was speaking and what their relevance was to the
documentary. We used the theme of twitter in these it was the most popular social
network when we asked them during our audience research prior to the
beginning of the production.
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Blogger
All of our pieces of course work for
the unit are presented on this
website. You can include images, text,
videos and more into your work
easily. With blogger you are able to
add embedded codes from websites
like slide share and Prezi so add
PowerPoints and word documents to
the post with out having to added
each slides/ page as a separate
image. We used it to help us show the
different stages of the research we
are doing with out tutor and other
members of our group.

6. + Slide Share
Side share is a internet site were you can upload power points and work
documents easily and link them to your blog. I used this for quite a few of
my course work pieces as I could make them how I wanted them in the
document, and upload them. This also helped when the group was
struggling we could go on to one of the others slide share to inspire us as
what to write next.

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Tagul
This site allows you to add either separate words of a paragraph and give
certain words different weights or say how important the word is. As a
ground we did a brain storming activity and I chose the most common words
of each spider diagram and added them to Tagul and decided which word
was most important for each idea. This was good for our project as we could
see what we could focus on most out of our different ideas.

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Camera and Equipment
We used a Sony DCR-SD 1000E camera to film
our interviews as this is a semi professional
broadcasting camera and shots in 720p. It
worked well as it gave up professional quality
video but I found that when we where filming
the Vox Pops we had some problems with the
sound of the wind when we were using the
external microphone so one a few we had to
switch to the clip microphone. Also on one of
our interviews we had to do the opposite as
the clip mic was broken also during that
interview we didn’t have a base pate to fit the
camera the tripod so we faced some problems
levelling the shot. The tripod we used was just
a standard tripod. To record the voice over we
used a zoom voice recorder we like the camera
this gave to a professional sounding voice
over, and this was a very easy to use piece of
equipment.

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Prezi
Prezi is a site where you can present your work
professionally using the themes they already have or create
your own. This has been very use full to use as al you have
to do it type what you want into it and like slide share if we
were stuck we were able to look at each others work and
figure out what we needed to do next.