Question 4

Question 4 :How did you use media

Technologies in the Construction and research,

Planning and evaluation stages.

Blogger.comTo start with the planning process, we used pen, pencils and paper. We created many things such as story boards, mind maps and write ups on the topic itself. On completion of all the planning, we uploaded them onto our blog, which involved scanning sheets in and trimming, uploading them and changing the setting on our blog, which allowed us to move them around. Occasionally, we just retyped things onto word processor and then used the same uploading method.

Click on the ‘edit HTML’ tab Then on the upload image icon

This box will then appear. Browse through your folders, find the image needed, choose where you want it positioned the click on ‘upload image,.

Your image will then appear like so. To move it, highlight the whole link and drag it down to the place desired.Go back to the compose tag, and your image

will be on it.

Uploading Method:

InternetWe used the internet to research about phobias and fears. We used ‘Google’, as we realised that this would give us lots of websites that would be full of information about our chosen topic. We found all different sites, such as:•http://phobialist.com/•http://www.phobias-help.com/different_types_of_phobia.html•http://helpguide.org/mental/phobia_symptoms_types_treatment.htm

We then used the internet to get in touch with professionals. To get their phone numbers, we used ‘Yell.com’

we also used ‘Hotmail’ emailing service, to contact professionals.

Word and ExcelWe used ‘Microsoft Word’ to retype written work, write up evaluations and to create our questionnaire, to find out what our audience like, dislike or expect when they watch a documentary .

Once we had our questionnaire results, we went on ‘Microsoft Excel’ to create the graphs.

To create a graph, we highlight the information needed, such as the questions and then the results from the chosen question. Once they are highlighted, we decided that we would use bar chart graphs, therefore, we selected the column section.

Automatically the graph will appear, like so:

CameraWhen we were filming we had to make sure that firstly the camera was set on the widescreen setting because then it would look right on the screen, when we come to do the editing. We had to make sure all the positioning and framing of each shot was right, as we didn’t want the sun to create shadows etc and we wanted to go by the typical codes and conventions of the documentary by having the correct framing. We had already planned the framing we had wanted, so it was much quicker to frame.

You insert the battery here.

To release the battery, press this button

Camera AccessoriesWe used tripods and microphones. We had to make sure that the sound quality of the interviews and the voxpops were of a good standard because if they weren’t we would have little time to re-film them after realising our error. To avoid this we used headphones and did a microphone test before every interview.

How to put up a tripod:A tripod has three legs so to get it to stand, the three legs have to be pulled out.These make it taller or shorter and all three legs are separately adjustable. The top section has a clip that has to

be attached to the camera and the replaced on top again.

The arm can tilt the camera and make the angle canted.

Mobile Phones and Stills Camera

As well as emails, we used mobile phones to get in touch with the interviewees.

We used mobile phones and the stills camera to record our progress of our documentary for our diary on our blog.

We also used the stills camera to take various pictures of the same thing for our print advert. We took lots of pictures of people’s faces whilst they were sticking their tongue out and then various pictures of a snake’s head.

Adobe PremiereWhen we came to edit, we used adobe premiere. This is an application I had used previously, so I was pretty familiar with it. To capture the tape, all I needed to do was put the tape into the tape player, decided which parts we wanted to use and the input/output them. After repeating this over and over and over again, we had all our selected clips. They appeared in this box on the left hand side of our screen:

We started cutting, dragging, cropping and putting them onto our timeline.We needed to add our various cutaways into the mix, just to break up the cuts and make the overall product less jumpy. To achieve this, we had to firstly unlink the sound and the picture bar. Then to add the cutaway in, we could either just put it into the video 2 bar or crop the original picture line and place the cutaway in its place.If we placed it in the video 2 bar, it would just overlap the original image, that was placed on the video 1 bar. This made it faster to add cutaways in.

However, my group and I like that our product is neat and all on one timeline as we find it easier to change and edit, therefore we had to cut and crop into our interview questions to fit them in. All these tools allow us to crop and cut the beginning or end of our clips.

Next thing to do was to add archive footage, as this is a typical code and convention of a documentary. We decided to use Joey drinking milk, someone bungee jumping and Gillian McKeith facing her fears. We recorded these ourselves. We found the programme scheduling lists and picked out relevant things we could use, then just how we filmed everything else in our documentary, using preset wide, we filmed it and are using it as archive footage. The quality isn’t that good but on the other hand, it also isn’t bad either. Adding graphics meant including a title page and then the subtitles in interviews. To achieve this we go to the top of the page and select the title bar as so:

Once that is selected, we pick ‘still title’. Then it asks what we would like to call the title – this is so it will be easier to find when trying to put it into the documentary. We then get taken to a new screen where we can decide where the writing is going to be placed, the size, font and shadowing of the text.

The sound track or underlying sound bed had to be relevant to the topic. We place this in the audio two line, and then cut it down to a relevant size. We could then change the volume of the sound bed by moving the yellow line up to make it louder or down to make it quieter.

Adobe Premiere Cont.

Adobe PhotoshopTo make the print ad, I used ‘Adobe Photoshop’. This would allow me to change the original image and manipulate it so it was relevant to our documentary.

We came up with the idea of a person’s face sticking their tongue out and having a typical object of fear (like a spider) placed on their tongue. We tried this and it didn’t work out as well as we had hoped. It looked unrealistic and really fake.

Because we had been to ‘Leroy's Lizard Lounge’, we had many pictures of snakes. We realised that the shape of a snake’s head look very similar to a tongue. Our second idea formed. We would transform the person’s tongue into a snake.

My progress went like this:

Microsoft PowerPoint

Slideshare.netTo upload this PowerPoint to my blog, I had to go on slideshare.net first.

After logging in, I click on the upload button and it takes me to this screen. I choose the presentation that I want to upload:

Whilst it is uploading, you can change the name of the presentation and the category and description.

Once uploaded, I copied the embedding code and pasted it to my blog.