1. HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES?

2. Throughout the production of our media product
nearly everything we did needed use of a
technology product in one way or another, each
stage of process from
planning, research, construction and finally the
evaluation stage.
We used both software and hardware to assist
us in the production of our documentary and
everything that goes with it, some of which were
difficult to use as we were new to the technology
and could be quite complicated to use effectively.
This was more applicable to the software that we
were using rather than the hardware.

3. Whilst making the documentary we used an array
of different hardware each had a different use, the
piece of hardware we used the most was the
Cannon Xm2 professional camcorder which we
captured all of our footage on. We found using the
Xm2 very easy as we have used it in previous
projects and also it is a very easy camera to
operate in general as the layout and functions are
very easy to understand, the camera had some
good and useful features such as a fully rotating
playback screen, two record/pause buttons in
different positions and a good quality built in mic.

4. The footage was very easy to get from the camera into the
software we used as it connected via mini USB lead and we used a
DV deck to capture the footage onto the computer and into the
software. Other hardware that we used included two external
microphones which plugged into a port on the side of the
camera, these were small clip mics and a rode boom mic, they
gave excellent sound quality without too much background noise
which was a disadvantage of the mic on the camera itself, we used
the clip mic for our interviews and the boom mic for our radio
advert. For the evaluation stage we needed to record ourselves
answering questions in video form, when doing this me and Sean
used the Samsung PL80 digital camera to record the video
footage, I found this camera very easy to use and of very good
quality both audio and video. When using cameras we always
used the standard 52inch tripod from college, we used it in order
to get much more stability in our still shots and smoother panning.

6. Along with all this hardware that we have used, it needs software
to capture, edit and use it in the ways that we wanted to, for our
main product we used Adobe Premier to capture, edit and finally
import it into you tube we also used this for the radio
advertisement. We have used premier before however we still had
a few minor problems because I find the program quite
complex, but once mastered can be used to very good effect and
can do things that similar products can not achieve. For our
Channel 4 poster advert we used Adobe Photoshop, I created the
advert whilst the rest of the group were editing the
documentary, and it was the first time I had used Photoshop. At
first I was completely baffled and could not get used to the
controls of the software, but with help from Matt in my group he
showed me how to use it properly and we used it to create a really
good poster and I was very pleased with both the sotfware and
the final product.

7. Other examples of software we used
facebook and Twitter were used to post and share the
product.
Google Inspriation
maps was was used in
used to get the
location planning
pictures. stage for
mind-maps