How did you use newmedia technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Amy Comer

Q4

Researcho When creating our Documentary extract me and my group did prior

research which consisted of analysing other similar texts, for example An Inconvenient Truth, The Blue Planet, Hells Angels, The Human Mannequin etc. This was done using websites such as YouTube, Internet Movie Database etc as well as Television itself.

o We also looked at other websites when producing our Print Work, once known as the Newspaper Marketing Agency Website and is now currently known as News Works, that allowed us to compare existing Print Work.

Planning o After using the websites aforementioned we were able to gain an insight

in to what aspects/ styles we liked about certain documentaries which we could use and others that we could possibly use and alter, as well as ones that we would not use. For example we chose to directly use a Presenter, however he also did the Voice Over too. Yet we did not use multiple Experts in our area of interest. Planning also occurred through watching documentaries on the Television which is also a media technology.

o One website in particular which help aid the pre production as well as the entire production right up until the end was Wordpress (Shown to the left of the page). This website is free and simplistic, however was able to document our progress along with corrections and in particular was an Audience Feedback source.

Productiono Channel 4 website was key in

production due to the fact that it was our broadcaster and gave us an insight on to the sort of Documentaries which were already existing, along with the Style Guide (Shown to the left of the page) that allowed me to know how their advertising works. For example the Channel 4 logo has to be centered towards the right of the page (Shown on Slide 5.)

Productiono One media technology/programme in particular that has helped me when

I was editing and creating the Newspaper Article Advertising Banner was PhotoPlus. This software was simple yet effective and allowed me to create the finished printwork (Shown below.)

Was able to replicate an image and edit it using the Hue/Saturation option on

the Effects menu, thus allowing a darker image

which looks like a shadow.

Could copy and paste text from the Channel 4 Style Guide using the correct font and then

alter the colour of the image using the Image option and clicking Negative, then creating

two rectangle shapes and colouring them red and placing them behind the text- creating the

finished title.

Evaluationo Other media technologies which have helped aid my evaluation have

been PowerPoint (Shown below) which was then converted in Slideshare so that it is compatible with Wordpress and the blog. As well as Microsoft Word whereby I was able to create answers in a text format and copy them over to Wordpress easily. Also Vimeo which enabled the video recorded to answer Question 2 and the Rough Cut/Final Version of our actual product to be integrated within the blog on Wordpress.