Evaluation q4 media (1) final final final

Evaluation q4 media (1) final final final

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  Q4. How didyou use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Production Process During the production process, we used many different hardware’s and software’s to achieve our products. Firstly, we used a Cannon camera for all our footage. I was fairly used to this brand of camera from AS Media so it was all about refreshing my memory with this piece of hardware. With our camera, we filmed many archival clips such as interview room pans and one take shots (filmed in Birmingham City Centre). Once we collected all our footage, we uploaded it onto a file on our Mac Computer. Each group, had one computer that had all the footage saved onto for backup purposes. For our documentary, we used a program called Adobe Premier, which I wasn't familiar with but with the help of my media teacher, we made notes on how to import our videos onto the software, how to mute voice overs, how to change the speed of clips, how to adjust the lighting and sound levels and also how to put a backing track over it all. I found it really interesting how you could change so much of the sound quality from the program and how we could get all the sound levels to sound the same. One other software we used for our documentary was Garage Band. This program allowed us to create our own backing track with a variety of instruments to choose from. It gave our group the chance to be creative and construct an upbeat soundtrack for the documentary. We were taught how to create a new file, how to split the audio and even how to create echo’s. Our group made two in total and we eventually chose one to feature in our documentary. To keep the examiner up to date with our creative progress, we did a few video reviews on our mobile phones to inform the examiner on what we had been doing in the week and how much we have progressed since the very beginning. We then uploaded this onto the software YouTube, to upload onto our blog. We also used Adobe Premier for our radio trailer. We recorded our voice overs on a voice recorder and transferred them onto the Mac and then onto our new file. We copied over some of our vox- pop clips and expert interviews from our documentary onto the radio trailer file and then cropped so much of the voice over until we had what we needed. We got our radio backing track from the media website full of different genres of music. Once we had gone through most of the files we finally chose one, downloaded it and copied it onto our radio trailer. For back up purposes, we transferred both the documentary and the radio trailer onto Richards hard drive to make sure we had a backup copy if anything went wrong. To make sure both our documentary and radio trailer were of a good standard, we exported it onto Rachel’s USB stick and played it on our classrooms projector to see how the sound quality was and if the visuals were clear enough. To create our double page spread, we used a software on the Mac named Adobe Illustrator, which was much like the software PhotoShop with its wide selection of tools. Despite the work I did on PhotoShop, I wasn't very comfortable with creating the double page spread alone, therefore I assisted as much as I could with what I knew. I found this element very difficult, as I'm not the most confident on this kind of software, however, we brought in the images from the documentary and placed them around the two pages. We used Google images to get the Radio Times logo as the idea was for the double page spread to be published in that particular TV listings magazine. We got a couple of different typographies from a website named DaFont, which had hundreds of different texts styles to choose from. I remembered how to do the drop cap on the article and how to align the text so it looked all neat and visually appealing. We have logged all our research and findings onto a software called Blogger; also used in our AS portfolio. This is where we have stored all our files and findings for our coursework. We have used a variety of software’s to present our work. We have had some trouble as Internet Explorer did not allow us to use many of the software’s we had previously used in AS, so we had to download Chrome in order to access these software’s. Despite us occasionally using Microsoft Word or Microsoft PowerPoint, we have tried to steer away from the typical forms of presenting software.
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  Whenever we diduse these two software’s, we had to go onto SlideShare in order to make it possible to embed the code on to our blogger account. We have used software’s such as Emaze and Prezzi, which gives you many different presenting templates to choose from. I tried the software Powtoon, as I used it successfully last year, however I found it very difficult this year to find an embed link and put it on the blog. When deciding on documentary names, we used a program called Mindmeister which created a complex mind map, however, I wasn't a big fan of this program as its mind maps came out blurry and there wasn't a very clear embed link. The one thing I did find difficult was finding a variety of new software’s to show my research. Many websites didn’t work to the standard that I wanted, so had to move between the few software’s I knew.