Q4

Q4

• 2.
  Throughout the researchprocess of our Media product, we looked into what Genre our documentary would be, who our Target Audience would be and so on. We (Me and my group members) had to make presentations during the process of research, and we found a means of making the presentations together with Google Slides. Google Slides enables multiple accounts to work on the same presentation at the same time. With this, we were able to get our work done at a quicker and more sufficient pace, it also made our work more organized. Google Slides is something I didn’t use in AS so with it, I’ve Me and my group have been able to get more done, in terms of doing research on Modes of Documentaries, Narrative theories, History of Documentaries etc.
• 3.
  To present thework I had done, I used Microsoft Word, which is what I used to present my Audience Questionnaire (image on the right). I wrote the questions down, put options below them and tallied up the answers, the question sheets where pulled out from a Printer. More of my presentation work for my research was done on Microsoft PowerPoint. After all my presentations where done, I transferred them onto Blogger, this is where I kept tabs of all my work and diaries. The way I used blogger is; I either turned my document into a JPEG and embedded it as an image, or I put the document in Slideshare, coped the link and pasted (embedded) it into Blogger, ready for presentation. I was also able to post videos on YouTube and use the HTML link to place it in Blogger.
• 4.
  And lastly, Iused Microsoft Excel to use the results from my questionnaire’s to see what my main Target Audience (Students) wanted/where expecting in my documentary. In AS I did not use Excel but this year I learned how to make pie charts to show an obvious representation what qualities my documentary needs to possess. With this my documentary was manipulated in a way to be more aesthetically for my viewers, especially for my target audience. And it gave me a clear indication of what genre my documentary should, what theory I should work under, mode etc.
• 5.
  A hegemonic normis that teens spend most of the time on their phones procrastinating. That’s far from the truth as me and my group members did most of our planning for our media product on our phones. We started off having a Whatsapp Group chat we’re we would delegate who would do what and when, then we would carry out our assigned duties. Soon we switched from Whatsapp to Snapchat, this is where we made a new group chat and carried on giving each other particular tasks to fulfil for our Media product. Eventually towards the end we knew what we had to do and soon only used Snapchat to text each other concerning what free days we had as that was the time we used to finish off our documentary.
• 6.
  I planned toget some expert interviews in with some teachers in Solihull Sixth Form, the way I was able to contact them was Tyber, which allows me to search sup staff in my college and compose a message to them. I messaged them asking for permission to do an interview and they set a date and time. Lastly, when I was out getting shots, I had a booking sheet I used to plan out how long how would use the camera and other details (image on the right)
• 7.
  I focused on4 main things for my construction: • Camera & Tripod: • DPS EDITING SOFTWARES: • DOCUMENTARY EDITING SOFTWARE: • RADIO AND AUDIO
• 8.
  Camera & Tripod: Iused the camera to capture my footage and the tripod. The Tripod (right images) is what I used to keep the camera still while recording. I used this to rotate the camera, pan it and overall make better shots. In AS I took basic and unprofessional shots but in A2 I learned more about variations of shots like medium shots, establishing shots etc, and I took these shots which made my documentary look better and more professional. In AS (involving camera work) I only knew how to take pictures, but now I had to learn how to take videos. In A2 I learned how to record videos. I also learned how to zoom in and zoom out of shots as well as stay in focus. After using all my new found knowledge to record appropriate footage, I learned how to transfer the footage from the camera to the computer with a USB lead. After that I started editing....
• 9.
  DPS EDITING SOFTWARES: Iused a computer to edit my captured footage for my documentary and DPS. To make my DPS I used Photoshop and InDesign. With InDesign I had to Embed my image, I then added text to it, changed my image to suit the DPS design, I put my text in columns and changed their colour, height and added a stroke to make it look better for the headlines, I also put a background colour to make a more attractive colour scheme, then overlapped everything over the colour. Photshop was used to transfer a text from there to InDesign in which I placed in my DPS. The text came from DaFont, which I used to get an ideal font and screenshotted it, trimmed off the white, and then placed onto my DPS, in where I edited it even more to make it look better
• 10.
  DOCUMENTARY EDITING SOFTWARE: Toedit my documentary, I used the editing software Adobe Premiere. In AS the only way I knew how to make a video was movie maker, and I found this unreliable as the videos where often lagging and the quality worsened. However, I learned how to use Premiere in A2, with my footage, I learned how to place them, how to cut them down/shorten them with the scissor tool. I also learned how to add text by clicking ‘Title’ and then ‘Default Still’ and from there I typed in what I needed. I learned how to speed up clips to present a time lapse and better my establishing shots and Mise en Sceene. We even added audio, but some of the audio clips where inconsistent, so we used the ‘Audio Gains’ option and changed our pitch making it louder or softer. With all this new found knowledge, I was able to make a better, cleaner and more professional video as appose to in AS, this was a big step up in A2.
• 11.
  RADIO AND AUDIO Ihad to edit my radio advert but before I could do that I had to capture audio, and to do that I used a recording device. This was not something I was used to in AS but it made things such as my videos and diary vlogs easier to make. I captured audio by recording it on the device, then used a USB lead to transfer it to my computer. After I was ready, I opened Garage Band, the software I would use to edit my radio advert. I put the clips in the right place, cut them when needed with a scissor tool, and of course edited the sounds to make it louder or softer where needed. To add sound affects to make it feel like a real scenario, I went to the media website and downloaded sound effects from there. With the sound effects saved into my downloads, I added them to my radio and finished the product.
• 12.
  The technology Iused for my Evaluation was my phone to capture footage and edit it on iMovie. With this I cut the clips and cropped them and put it altogether. I also used my computers editing software Sony Vegas to put the rest of my documentary together than exported it, rendered and posted it. I also used Vizme to present one of my questions. Everything was embedded with an embed code than transfered to my Blogger for presentation