Question 4(kelly)

Question 4(kelly)

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  Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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  When planning mydocumentary I used a number of different media technologies. When my group where firstly planning our ideas we typed all our ideas up onto Microsoft word so it would be easier to look at our ideas and could quickly make copies if they where needed. I also used word to type up questionnaires for audience research and to type up interview questions and so we knew exactly what we wanted to ask the person that was being interviewed. Once we had collected all our answers we used Microsoft excel to produce graphs and charts to show what we found from our answers
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  To find outthe information I needed for my documentary I used a number of different websites, this was to find contact details for people we would like to interview and also places that we would like to record in such as the dance teachers and dance studios. I also did some research on Google about the style of dance that I was so familiar with. I also looked at YouTube videos of other dance documentaries so we had ideas of what camera angles and shots looked best for when we where recoding our own footage. YouTube was also used to gain our archive footage. I used a Firefox plug in to download the archive footage from YouTube that we wanted to use in the documentary
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  When constructing mydocumentary many different types of media technologies where used. When filming our footage we used a SONY HXR- MC2000E camera, although the camera had a built in microphone when interviewing people we used a clip mic so we could have a better quality of sound. Once we had gained all our footage we used a USB transfer cable to take the footage from the camera to the computer so then we could begin editing the footage.
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  Once all ourfootage was on the computer we used an editing software called adobe premier CS5, this offered us with lots of editing features which helped my group make our documentary look more professional. The software had an effects bank which let us add a number of effects which helped us improve the sound, an example of this is the interviews that we used the clip mic had to use the fill left tool as the sound from that part would only play out of the right ear of headphones so by filling left it would play from both headphones. When creating our opening sequence we used overlays as we wanted the sequence to resemble a music video, we also used the green screen when recording so to remove the background we used the chroma key effect. We also used transitions such as cuts and dissolves that where part of the software to change from one clip to another.
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  I also usedadobe premier CS5 to create the radio advertisement by isolating sound clips from the videos that where used in the documentary and adding the altogether. I used adobe Photoshop CS5 to create the name graphics and poster for the documentary, Photoshop has a number of different tools that allowed me to edit the poster and name graphics to make them both look more professional
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  When carrying outmy evaluation I used a number of different software's. I used Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft word, and blogger. I also used my apple iphone to record peoples audience feedback of what they thought about the finished documentary. As you cannot upload PowerPoint straight to blogger I had to publish my power points on Slideshare and then embed it onto my blog. I also used blogger to publish every part of my work.