How did you use media technology in the construction, research, planning and evaluation

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For our documentary we used the Sony HXR- MC200E camera to film all of our footage. It was a really good camera to use and was a really high quality camera. The camera filmed in 1080p so give of a really vibrant and crisp image really enhancing the documentary making it vibrant in colours and detail. It was a really good experience learning how to use these cameras as it really gives you an in depth feel of what it is like to work in this sort of industry and how lighting and framing can really make an pice of footage really good or really bad as we learned to film our subjects from the front capturing them in the rule of thirds this give the frame a good composition and made sure you could clearly see the subject.

For our radio advert we filmed it in the college radio booth. This give us an incite what its like in a radio station and all the equipment they use to create a show. Using the radio booth for the voice in the radio advert it really give off a clear crisp sounding sound that really sounded professional and helped develop our work into a higher standard.

We used clip mic’s when filming interviews for our documentary these give a much more focused sound and help to block out a lot of background noise so again there really helped take our documentary to the next level. Once we had used clip mic’s they recorded in mono so only played in one headphone but this was easily fixed using the fill left in adobe premier which filtered the sound into both headphones. We also used boom mic’s on the camera for general filming of the band at gigs and rehearsing this give a much more unfocused sound capturing all the sound around it which was perfect for filming the band as it captured all the instruments and crowed which created some nice non diagetic sound for the documentary.

We used tripods for filming parts of our documentary such as when filming the interviews. The tripods we used where really good and we were able to make sure we had the height and angle we wanted for the interviews. Being able to use tripods for our documentary helped us keep to the codes of conventions of filming an interview having a steady cam and using the rule of thirds we were able to create professional interview setups with a good mese en scene. We did not use tripods for all of our filming as we did use the cameras hand held this look give the documentary a real life raw footage feel too it and I think we had a good combination of both tripod and hand held shots throughout.

In the process of making the documentary we used a lot of adobe software. This was a really good set of programs to used and are used at a professional level. We used adobe premier to edit together both the documentary and the radio trailer. I think it was a really good piece of software, that was hard to understand at first but once we understood the software we found it easy to edit the documentary together being able to edit the sound and fill left with the clip mics and also being able to edit the footage it self enhancing the colours and adding effects to the footage like a cross dissolve

We also used Photoshop to create the graphics for our documentary like the title screen “ the K’s road to stardom” this enabled us to really make some unique stand out graphics that people would see and remember rather then just Palin text we wanted to make it more exciting and eye catching to the viewer. And finally we used light room to edit the photographs we really wanted our poster for the documentary to stand out so light room enabled us to really enhance the photograph chaining the contrast and vibrancy of the image to really make it stand out.

Adobe premier was a really good technical program we used in this I learned about the different layers you can use this was really good to learn as you had to learn about adding no diagetic and diagetic sound and with out knowing you way around the layers this would of been really confusing and hard to use. I also learned a lot about the effects bank. And how this can really enhance the documentary with its transitions and also effects on the video being able to enhance the colours making a much more eye catching documentary. Finally the time line was really important as it really helped get the documentary in order and run smoothly going through the right frames.

Photoshop and light room was also a really big part of making our documentary we used it to create text for our documentary using dafont to get the text and then putting it into Photoshop and using the cut tool to edit it and change the colours of the photograph. We used light room to edit the photographs this was a really good program to use it was fast and effective. It worked really well as there was easy to use tools to the side that would easily change the colours and the vibrancy. It was also really good to enhance clarity in the photographs and over all created a really nice stand out image. We then placed the photo back into Photoshop and placed in text and logos of the bbc. Combined the programs made a really effective and professional poster and graphics for the documentary.

We also used a lot of Microsoft software I have used word to type up my documents such as the radio trailer and the running order for the documentary. The software was easy to use and was the best format to do this type of work in as it was easy accessible and easy to change if needed.

We also used PowerPoint to construct a lot of things for our documentary I have found it very helpful in my evaluation stage using each slide as a different section I feel that it flows really well and looks good too. Finally we used Microsoft excel to create some feedback from our questionnaires this program was really effective and give us our feedback in a much easier and more understandable and enabled us to take effect on what our audience thought.

We also used the dell insperon to work on this was a really good computer to work on as it handled the software well handling all the data we needed fast and effectively.

I also used a lot of web based programmes to help construct the documentary. I used dafont to get unique fonts for the documentary this was good as it give us unique fonts that really stood out and people would remember.

We used blogger to keep our progress of the documentary on. I think it was a great piece of software to use as we were able to access it form any were and work on it or be able to review things such as audience feedback so it worked really well as it was always accessible to us.

Finally I used you tube for a lot of the research I did this helped me a lot as if was able to use you tube to watch all different types of documentaries and use the information I gathered to make my documentary a lot better.

Summary To summarise the question I feel like we have used a wide range of technology from programs I am used to such as Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint but I have also used a lot of new software such as adobe premier this was a really good piece of software I found it to be really complex and confusing at first but with some work shops found the software a lot better to understand and a lot easier to work with.

With the new way with digital editing it made the process a lot easier we were able to very early transfer the footage from the camera to the computer rather then the old way of having to take out a feel of film and transfer it. It was also a lot easier to look through the footage on the computer as it was converted into small easy to view files so it really helped speed up the process.