The document discusses the various media technologies used at different stages of planning, constructing, and evaluating a documentary project. Microsoft Word was used to plan ideas and create questionnaires. Research involved using websites to find contact details and YouTube to view other documentaries for inspiration. Footage was captured using a Sony camera and edited in Adobe Premiere, which allowed adding effects, transitions, and isolating sound clips. Adobe Photoshop was used to design graphics. Evaluation used PowerPoint, Word, and a blog to publish work, with an iPhone used to record audience feedback.

1. Question 4
How did you use media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?

2. When planning my documentary 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

3. To find out the 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

4. When constructing my documentary 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.

5. Once all our footage 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.

6. I also used adobe 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

7. When carrying out my 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.