Question 4 Evaluation

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research,

planning and evaluation stages?

Research and PlanningBefore starting our documentary we needed research. We used the internet and Google to find the necessary information such as types of biscuits and the most popular biscuits. We also used Google earth to find the locations we were filming at for our location sheets. We applied this information to Microsoft word and Blogger to make the information more accessible.

Research and Planning We then needed to plan the structure of our documentary. We studied the codes and conventions of several documentaries so that when we come to producing ours we know what to include. We watched these videos on You Tube and the Channel 4 website where you can look specifically at documentaries. This also helped us know what to include and exclude, how to frame an interview, where sound should be used, opening titles and graphics.

Research and planning helped us decide what our documentary should be about. After making a brainstorm we thought it would be a good idea to do Biscuits in Britain as they are cultural and popular in Britain and there for there would be enough people to interview and enough footage to make a documentary.

FilmingFor the production of filming the interviews we used a XM2 manual camera which was simple to use as it required a tape instead of digital so there was no chance of accidentally deleting it. You can play the footage back on the camera and plug a microphone onto the side of it and listen to the sound quality through a pair of headphones and with a tripod to fit with it. This insured that the framing was still and looked more professional.

EditingFor the editing process we used an SR-DVM tape deck to capture the footage and put it onto Adobe Premier which was the programme we used to edit the footage.Step By Step1. Open Adobe Premier2. Insert the tape into the machine, insuring that the cable is connected to the computer.3. Press ‘F5’ on the keyboard so a new window comes up and click the record button.4. Find the footage in the left window.

EditingCaptured footage

On this bar, to select the required footage you click ‘I’ on the keyboard to start and ‘O’ to finish where you would like to cut.

After selecting the footage you then drag the footage onto the line on the order you want.

This window shows what is on the time bar

This box has different kinds of cuts andTransactions that can be dragged onto the timeline

EditingThe red line shows where you are up to on the video

TitleTitles are graphicsThat go over the video Video

SoundYou can adjust the level of the sound bymoving the yellow line up or down.

Editing

We used the blue screen for our opening titles. We put a pile of biscuits on the screen and took a picture. Then we removed some more biscuits and took another picture and then over and over again so it looked like the biscuits were disappearing. When we put this footage onto the computer we changed the blue screen background into a British flag by saving the picture off the internet then opening it with Adobe. By doing this it looked like the biscuits were disappearing and revealing the British flag.

Print AdvertOur Print advert follows the codes and conventions of a channel 4 poster as our documentary is on channel 4. Before starting to make it, we researched what Channel 4 posters look like by going on the website 4creative where you can see the posters from real Channel 4 documentaries.

Print AdvertCreating the Print advert – We used Photoshop to create our print advert.

Print Advert

Print Advert

Print Advert

Print Advert

Print Advert

Radio AdvertScriptBritain loves biscuits, but why are they so popular? Why have we fallen head over heels for the Gary baldy? -Vox pops from beginning of documentary- We'll do anything to get our hands on them, weather its grabbing a pack off the shelves or making our own -Home bakers and Gregg's answering questions- Relax with a cuppa, a bourbon and watch Britain's Biscuits - Wednesday 20th December on channel 4 - dunking the nation!

After scripting the radio advert we found a suitable voice over (That we also recorded and used for our documentary.)

We recorded it in the radio room as it is quite and will come out at a better quality when we open it onto Adobe Premiere.

ProgrammesDuring our research, planning, creating my blog and making my evaluation I used several computer programmes to help me achieve this.

I used Powerpoint to help create my

evaluation. I also used it to make a

brainstorm of ideas.

I used paint to make pictures into a JPEG file

so I could put them onto my blog.

I used word to write documents and then putting

them onto my blog.

I used Excel to create graphs such as the

running order, to help me film my

documentary.

ProgrammesWe used an online YouTube converter which allowed us to convert videos to audio from YouTube and put them on our documentary. We used this when we made a music bed to go under the home bakers and the opening title.

Find the video you want off You Tube and copy and paste the link onto You tube converter. Convert, save the file and then Import it onto Adobe premier. It will then appear in the left window. You can drag it onto the line and cut it like you do with filmed footage.

ProgrammesAnother online programme I used to helpwith my evaluation was Prezi. When Imade my slideshow I used Debut videocapture device to record what I hadcreated on Prezi, put it on You Tube andembedded it onto my blog.

I used the social networking site Facebook to broadcast my documentary and get feedback from my target audience to put on my blog.