1. Q4 – How did you use media technology in the
construction and research, planning and evidence
and evaluation stages?
Sony HXR MC 2000E
We used the Sony HXR in the recording of our documentary, it’s a
solid state hard drive, so this has no moving parts so this makes it
very durable. It shoots in 1080p full hd .
This is a screen shot from the documentary shot with the
Sony HXR , we used the Sony's on board microphone to
record the audio during this interview. This provided a
balanced sound, but it did pick up some background
noise. We used the mini touch screen to view what we
were recording instead of using the view finder as it gave
a better view and didn’t restrict our vision.

2. This is the Manfrotto tri-pod we used during the
recording process, this let us to have smooth steady
shots, while recording. The tri-pod was essential
because without it, the documentary would have had
poor, shaky feel to it all. This would of made it hard for
the audience to focus on the interview subjects and
the overall documentary.
Using this tri-pod allowed use to be creative
with the types of camera shots, because some
of the shots we could not of done without
using a tri-pod. E.g track, pan and tilt. By using
this types of shot it kept the audiences
attention throughout the whole documentary.
This is a shot taken from our documentary, during
this interview we used a tri-pod set and the eye level
of the person being interviewed. This shows a steady
shot because if it was shot with a hand-held it would
be very shaky.

3. Example of a Pan – Using a tri-pod
Shot one
As shown below in the photos, this is a pan.
We used a pan to engage with the audience to
create a feel as if they were actually there
watching the band live.
Shot three
Shot two

4. Clip Microphone
This is a clip on mic, we used to record the audio during
interview it was clipped onto the person being
interviewed clothing, and the wire was ran out of shot.
This picture shows a clip mic being used during one of
our interview, it is placed as close to the sound source
as possible, but not too close because that would cause
the audio to clip and distort.

5. Adobe Premiere CS5
This screen shot us adding a cross dissolve to one of
our interviews, this was done by choosing the video
transition menu and grabbing the cross dissolve and
placing it onto the part of the video that we wanted
it on.
This screen shots shows use editing our sound
bed, we double clicked the audio file and opened up
the bigger edition and manually turned the track up
and down at the points in the documentary when
people are speaking.

6. Adobe Photoshop CS5
This screen shot shows me selecting one of
the layers in my poster, doing this allows me
to edit the selected layer by adding effects
including – blur, sharpen and a range of
filters.
This screen shot shows me editing the layer style, this
allows me change things such as the blending options, add
drop shadow and the colour overlay.

7. This screen shot shows use taking a still image from an interview in
our documentary, we have done this because during the recording of
this interview, the camera shows up in the Screen of the Mac. We
needed to fix this and remove it from the shot, without having to re-
record the whole interview.
This one is the next step, we exported the still from premiere into
Photoshop and cropped it down to the area we need to work
on, using the crop tool. Doing this allowed us to work on the area
without effecting any other areas.
This screen shot shows use zooming in on the area we need to fix, we
then used the eye dropper tool to get the exact colour from the screen of
the Mac, the we made a new layer of the same colour and dropped it
over the area that needed fixing we then used the blur tool to blend it in
to the screen.

8. This shows the final fixed interview, in premiere we imported as a PNG into premiere we then found the parts of the documentary
where this interview happens and placed the PNG on its own track on the timeline over the top of the interview making sure it fitted
and was in time. There was a slight issue with the reflection because as the person being interviewed hands passes through it seems
to disappear but we thought this was a small trade off, to save us the time and hassle to re-record the whole interview.

9. Dell XPS
This is the Dell XPS PC which ran the software, we used it to edit the
documentary, and Photoshop. The Pc was capable power to run these programmes
with minimal error, and system crashing. The overall feel of this PC was alright, but
was frustrating at times because of its speed. I wouldn’t personally choose to editing
on these PC’s again due to there prone to error within the programmes and slow
running speed and clunky feel.

10. Youtube
We used Youtube, to gather our achieve footage
because of it’s vast amounts of video footage in a range
of genres and styles.
Firefox Plugin’s
We opened Youtube in firefox, we did this so we could take
advantage of Firefox’s plugins. This allowed us to download
our selected footage in either 720 or 1080p this was very
useful because, it kept with the quality of the whole
documentary, and it didn’t lessen the professinal feel of the
whole documentary by using achieve footage at 360p

11. Internet Explorer
We used sources such as BBC, we
used these sources because they are
very reliable. We used this instead of
Wikipedia because members of the
public can editing anything on
Wikipedia so you can not trust the
valdilty.
We used internet explorer as out internet source, this was because of its wide
availability on every pc in the world, this allowed us to have access to a wide range of
website to collect our information from.

12. PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint was used to create power points
presentation, we used this because it is the industry standard when
making presentations for people to see. It is very simple and easy to
use so it made it so easy to make power points.
Adobe Acrobat
We used adobe acrobat to create PDF files, with the results of out
questionnaires. This allowed use to create Pie charts and bar graphs along
side text to explain what the graphs are displaying.
Excel
We used Microsoft excel, we used this to input data
from our questionnaires into graphs.

13. Blogger
We used Blogger to show our
progress as we made our
documentary, we posted
everything from
planning, research and the
actual documentary. This was
very difficulty because of
bloggers poor layout and errors
and prone to crashing, which at
points to lose your work.