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

evaluation stages?

Stephanie Molyneux

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Slideshare

• Slideshare is an online website that allowed me to upload any Power Point’s and show them in a more presentable way. As blogger is unable to host Power Point documents directly it is a very useful tool for me to show presentations.

• I used powerpoint when presenting any research I had done for my documentary (The Devil made me do it, Escape!, The Marketing of Meatloaf etc) to help me recognise the codes and conventions of a documentary. I also used slideshare to publish all my graphs. I used slideshare because it looked a lot more professional uploading all of the graphs together rather than on a word document.

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Blogger

• Blogger is a website where people can upload different forms of information all in the same place so that it can openly be viewed on the internet in chronological order and upload different medias.

• I have used blogger from the beginning of the year when I started analysing and researching about documentaries.

• As it is easily accessible it has made it easier to share work and ideas with my group. Also as it is very easy website to naviagte it allows anyone to locate my work.

• On Blogger I have uploaded, Powerpoint presentations, Prezi files, word documents, Tagul files and video and audio files.

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Prezi• I used Prezi when researching documentaries

such as 12 year old lifer and Accused: The 74 stone babysitter to present my findings during the start of the year.

• Prezi allows you to select a template that you want to use for the layout, I choose a template that was bold and eye catching. When you press play on the image, the slide quickly transitions and shows your work in a more creative way.

• It is very simple and easy to add text and images. Prezi allowed me to put forward my plans for my documentary in an interesting way with lots of detail and show my presentation in a more creative way.

• To transfer this file from prezi I had to use an ‘Embed’ code to transfer it on to my blog.

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SLR camera and camera

• Throughout the filming of our documentary we used a Sony HD video camera to film all of our footage with. We also used tripods to create a steady shot so it looked professional. We used the tripod when filming cutaways such as when a group of people are sat together socialising and also filming the interviews and vox pops.

• When filming the interviews we also used a microphone so that the sound would be recorded.

• I used an SLR cameras to take pictures for our print advertisement. By trying a variety of shot types (Close up, extreme close up, long shot, medium shot0 we found that was the best way to decide what was the best picture.

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Powerpoint

• I used powerpoint to create presentations from my documentary analysis. This allowed me to understand how to make a documentary look more professional and make it more interesting.

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Tagul• We used a programme called Tagul

to create a mind map of our chosen topic when we had decided what our main idea was,which was phobias.

• Once we had a variety of ideas we put them into Tagul and with the chosen words created a heart shape. This was used to show ideas for the documentary content that I could then refer back too later on when I needed inspiration.

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Adobe Photoshop

• We used Photoshop to create our print advertisement which allowed us to be as close as possible to creating a stereotypical ‘Channel 4’ advertisement. During the editing process we found it was quite difficult to match up the two images so we tweaked the images using Photoshop tools which allowed us to make it look professional and both of the images even. Doing this, made it look like a typical print advertisement by using Channel 4’s codes and conventions.

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Adobe Premiere• During the editing process we spent a lot of time using Adobe

Premiere as we used it to create our documentary as it allows you to cut clips down, place them in any order, add audio and speed and slow down clips.

• As it allows you to manipulate video and audio it helped us make our vox pops interviews sound a lot more professional as there was some background voice which was distracting from what the person was saying.

• We also used Adobe Premiere to create our radio advert. By recording our advert in an enclosed radio room through audacity and then transferring it to adobe premiere, it was edited in the same way our documentary was by adding music and extra sound effects to make it sound more professional and interesting.

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Audacity• We used Audacity to create our radio advertisement and

the voice over for the documentary. • It was very simple to record it, by using a microphone to

speak into, you pressed the record button whilst it was recording and pressed the stop button when it was finished.

• We used our radio room in college to record our advert and then transferred it to Premiere to edit and cut it down on a separate file.

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Youtube

• At the start of the year we used YouTube to watch documentaries on when we were analysing them and finding out the general codes and conventions of a documentary.

• We also uploaded our final version of our documentary onto YouTube to convert it onto our blogs and put onto facebook to get audience feedback.