Media evaluation question 4

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Question 4How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Adobe Premiere CS5All of the documentary and the radio advert were create on Premiere. We had multiple tracks for different songs to that we could have them all at different levels. I feel that this works well as some interviews where quieter then others and we needed to be able to make them louder and the sound bed under them quieter, using the audio mixer.

Adobe Premiere CS5

Each sound and video clip we imported separately and each of them had to be edited weather that was the volume or the brightness and contrast.

On the sound we added constant gains between the clip which we were repeating so that the blended well together. I think that this worked well as when you are watching the documentary you can not tell the music is repeated and it flows well.

+ Photoshop and Lightroom

We used Photoshop and Lightroom to create the newspaper advert. As we could turn the image black and white in light room and we could add the text and the image in the pupil of the eye in Photoshop. I think what we did was very successful

+BloggerAll of our pieces of course work for the unit are presented on this website. You can include images, text, videos and more into your work easily .

+Slide ShareSide share is a internet site were you can upload power points and work documents easily and link them to your blog. I used this for quite a few of my course work pieces as I could make them how I wanted them in the document, and upload them. This also helped when the group was struggling we could go on to one of the others slide share to inspire us as what to write next.

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This site allows you to add either separate words of a paragraph and give certain words different weights or say how important the word is. As a ground we did a brain storming activity and I chose the most common words of each spider diagram and added them to Tagul and decided which word was most important for each idea. This was good for our project as we could see what we could focus on most out of our different ideas.

Tagul

+Camera and EquipmentWe used a Sony DCR-SD 1000E camera to film our interviews as this is a semi professional broadcasting camera and shots in 720p. It worked well as it gave up professional quality video but I found that when we where filming the Vox Pops we had some problems with the sound of the wind when we were using the external microphone so one a few we had to switch to the clip microphone. Also on one of our interviews we had to do the opposite as the clip mic was broken also during that interview we didn’t have a base pate to fit the camera the tripod so we faced some problems levelling the shot. The tripod we used was just a standard tripod. To record the voice over we used a zoom voice recorder we like the camera this gave to a professional sounding voice over, and this was a very easy to use piece of equipment.

+PreziPrezi is a site where you can present your work professionally using the themes they already have or create your own. This has been very use full to use as al you have to do it type what you want into it and like slide share if we were stuck we were able to look at each others work and figure out what we needed to do next.