1. PLANNING STAGES!! First part of the planning was putting pen to paper and brain storming our ideas. After that we mad a mood bored of what we would like to be included in the Documentary and also to get our ideas flowing Above is our pre production check lists that we tried to follow in order to help with the main production in the later stages. There are also experimental drawings of shots and scripts templates for our documentary scripts.
2. In the Beginning of setting up our Blog we conducted a survey for our blogger followers to complete on ‘What would make a good Documentary Video?’ and from those results obtained we were able to shape our documentary in the way it is now. We also used mainly our phones to ask our peers and target audience to what they think of our proposed documentary, and therefore used this as our audience feed back. And we also used the internet to look at examples of existing products.
3. RESEARCH… YouTube videos & Internet We used the Internet as our main bulk of our research, to look at existing products and use video research to use on our blog and even used YouTube to post our own production and ancillary products too.
4. Podcast of audience Feedback: Proliferation of hardware and social media (mobile phone to record/movie maker and YouTube…) allow us to have basic means of production and distribution. This was necessary in order for us to conduct our research. The use of Web 3.0 helped distribute our production much easier in order for us to carry out our research. We also looked at newspapers to research how documentaries are advertised within.
5. CONSTRUCTION!! Used to put the whole concept together We used a series of software to construct our production. For our news paper advert we used the Adobe software package to put it all together. Illustrator was used to create the graphics and the logo. Photoshop was used to retouch the lightning of the images. We used a series of Hardware to film and construct our production. Such as the Sony HD Camcorder and a flip cam. As we were making a documentary the sound content is heavy and vital therefore we needed a good quality camera to pick up quality sound. And after that we captured them on the MAC and used Final Pro cut to edit.
6. CONSTRUCTION: Editing Process… Here are some screen shot of our editing processes… Here me and Diana are capturing the footage by connecting the camera to the MAC. This is how the footage appears and as we are watching it me and Diana make note on what to cut and what to keep therefore we are mediating what is shown on our documentary. Editing our music and embedding it to the appropriate scenes.
7. EVALUATION… To get an evaluation from our target audience we used the internet. We distributed our documentary on the social network site Facebook to get feedbacks from the age groups we’ve been targeting. So when evaluating the media technologies for our evaluation there is nothing better than social networking sites to target out target audience. We used YouTube as our main our main use of distribution and its also our exhibition as people access to the link will be able to view it on line and be able to share it amongst their friends. We also did a class evaluation and each went around the classroom and gave and received feedback. Our classmates particularly liked our presenter and the ‘teen mum’ interview.
