The student used various new media technologies throughout the planning, research, and evaluation stages of their documentary project. They began by creating an online questionnaire to gather audience feedback, which provided useful insights. Google was used for initial research on their topic of healthy and unhealthy eating. An HD video camera, tripod, and clip-on microphone were used to capture high quality footage and audio for interviews. Adobe Premiere Pro was used to edit the footage and add additional elements like screenshots. Microsoft Office applications like Word and PowerPoint were utilized for planning documents and presentations. Finally, the school's audio software was used to record voiceovers for the documentary and radio trailer.

1. How did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?
At the beginning of our documentary research we came up with a questionnaire to hand out to a sample
of 30 people in the audience. This was very supportive because it was swift and straightforward to
receive results and also gave us an idea of what we could include in our documentary and if they would
be interested in watching the final product. It proved affective because the results we received were very
positive and helped us sufficiently.
Firstly we used google to construct our research on healthy and unhealthy eating including diseases that
can be caused by unhealthy eating like obesity and diabetes, following what benefits can come from
eating healthier and not from fast processed foods. It also helped us
research our codes and conventions for our documentary, radio
trailer, print advert and the interviews codes and conventions so
because of this we gained more information on the subject we
chose that we weren’t aware of already. Another piece of
technology we used was an HD video camera to capture footage in
HD quality and a tripod to stabilize the camera which is used to avoid any unsteady material. These two
bits of equipment were used for all of our clips like handling and preparing food, or people consuming
food along with fast food restaurants but we included a clip on mic when encountering the filming
process of interviews which we attached onto part of the interviewees clothing, or to film clips that
required the audio to be recorded on a specific frequency.
Following this we also used Adobe Premiere Pro Cs6 to produce our preliminary final task
and ancillary texts (Radio Trailer) while using this to edit our footage and merge them
together we also added screen shots from articles on google to do with specific topics
within our chosen subject matter or photos we have taken of gym exercises that are
featured in magazines for inspiration to the public. We had previous knowledge from
using this software along with Photoshop Cs6 from our AS media course which involved similar skills to
apply to our work but not in such detail as A2. Using this in AS was very helpful because
we have developed/improved with both programmes and have been able to not only
learn but better our skills during the time of the A2 course. In addition to other
programme presentations we have used such as EMAZE, Prezi, Slideboom
and slideshare to present our work in creative forms instead of just
simply typing it up and importing it straight on out blogs.
We have also used Microsoft office throughout the majority of the year, for example
Microsoft word for our running order, questionnaire, voiceover script and
radio trailer, and Microsoft PowerPoint for some other presentation
purposes. This enabled up expand our presentational skills a little more and
to also use different presentational features.
Finally we used the schools Radio software also known as I.C.E Radio, this was used to record our audio
voiceover for our documentary and our radio trailer because it contained a high quality microphone and
was a quiet room where no further audio or interruptions would be recorded in the process. We had to
use someone who wasn’t from our group and had a voice we felt fitted the voice for our provided script
and guidance throughout our media products.

2. For our actual Evaluations I have used Microsoft Word document and PowerPoint Presentation to easily
represent the techniques and digital technology I have used in order to plan and create my final 3
products. To upload them to my blog I had to format
them so they I was them able to embed a code in
order for it to show/be presented on my blog. The
websites I used to format the documents and
PowerPoint presentations were Slideboom,
slideshare and the next one was called
slides which enabled me to create a
presentation and then upload it straight to my blog without having to
format it on a different website.