The document lists various technologies used in the production of a documentary project, including: - Blogger to document the project process - Prezi and PowerPoint for research and evaluation presentations - Taggle for brainstorming documentary ideas - Video and audio equipment like cameras and microphones to record footage and interviews - Editing software like Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Audacity to assemble, enhance, and add elements to the documentary, such as visual effects, text, music, and voiceovers.

1. Technologies I used:
Blogger
Prezi
Taggle
Sony HD Video Camera
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe SoundBooth
Nikon DSLR Still Camera
Adobe Photoshop
Audacity
Microsoft Powerpoint/Slideshare

2. Using blogger enabled me to record my work from the research stages all the way
through to the evaluation stages. By using blogger I easily added fresh pieces of work
onto new posts. However sometimes blogging can become a bit unorganized and
therefore I re-organizing it took extra time.

3. I used Prezi in my Research and evaluation stages to present my
work in an interesting way compared to the typical essay writing
format. Prezi allowed me to annotate and add images too which
helped for both stages of evaluation and research when analysing
and typing up other documentaries.

4. Tagul enabled us to brainstorm ideas for the
documentary in a visually interesting way. By
shaping the buzz words of our ideas into a
relevant picture, Tagul helped create a
soupson of the ideas we have come up with.

5. We used Sony AVCHD Video Camera’s to record our
documentary footage. We used a tripod and clip
microphone when recording our vox pops. This
enabled us to collect vast amounts of vox pops
whilst keeping the camera on a level position
creating a perfect frame for the interviewee's.
These were used for both vox pops and formal
interviews with relevant phobia people. Using a
tripod helped us keep a steady camera.
The clip microphone helped us capture the
interview audio, however we made a mistake in
one interview and the audio became muffled,
unfortunately we couldn’t re-arrange another
interview with that person and therefore had to
use a bad piece of audio. Overall I feel we could
have put more effort into the framing of the shots
we had taken and concentrated more on the
capturing of the audio.

6. Using Premiere Pro enabled me to put my documentary together. After going out and getting
all the footage we needed including archive footage, we collated it on premiere and produced
a rough edit to get a general idea of what the documentary would look like.
Once the rough edit was completed we began our full edit of the
documentary. Firstly we imported all of our footage into
premiere. Then by using the preview window and razor tool we
began to cut up various footage and drag into suitable places.
Following the running order helped give us a narrative structure
for the documentary so that the footage was put in a sensible
and consistent way. I feel this was done well, however some of
the footage could have been more interesting such as the
cutaways.

7. After carefully choosing and editing the main documentary footage we began to add still
headings onto specific parts of the documentary. For example we used a heading on the
opening sequence to signify the start of the documentary. As well as adding text onto the
interviewee’s parts telling the audience who they were and their relevance to the
documentary.
When we first edited the opening sequence the text was not very suitable as we added too
many effects such as drop shadows and strokes. Therefore we decided to tone the effects on
the text down and we felt it looked a lot better, therefore I feel the font and size of the text
throughout the documentary is suitable and compliments the eerie themes of phobias.

8. Now that we had the footage and text
we moved onto the visual effects of the
documentary. Our main focus was the
blue screen interview which I feel
worked extremely well. For this we used
the Chroma key tool and replaced the
background of the interview with a
picture of the interviewee’s phobia
adding a more suitable feel, as well as
creating a more interesting
documentary.
Transition effects were also added to
the text stills. By fading the text in and
out we created a more professional
looking documentary. I feel this was
effective to the documentary as it gave
the audience relevant information in a
subtle way that did not avert their
attention from the main footage.

9. The final steps to putting together the documentary was adding and editing the music and
voiceover, as well as levelling out the volume so that the documentary volume run smoothly
throughout. Firstly we added the voice over and simply used the razor tool to cut up specific
sections of the voiceover. After dragging the correct sections to the correct places we began
to add the music. We chose Thriller by Michael Jackson as we felt it suited the whole theme
of being scared and having a phobia. We also chosen an atmospheric drone named Dulces
Pontes. This created a scary feel for the documentary which I feel worked well and gave the
start of the documentary a big impact on the audience. To compliment the drone we added a
sound effect of a beating heart to portray the themes of fear.

10. On one of the interviews we had filmed the audio was quite muffled and had a lot of
static noise. Therefore we used Adobe Sound booth to correct it. By using Sound
booth's
own effects rack and audio
cleaner I was able to partially
correct some of the audio in
the interview therefore
making it usable. Even though I had added effects onto the audio making it sound
cleaner, I feel the audio was still not up to a great standard and this mistake could have
been avoided by using the microphone properly when we filmed.
We also used sound booth to adjust the volume of
certain clips by using the decibel dial.

11. For my Print Advertisement I needed
pictures of someone who had a phobia.
Therefore I used a DSLR Camera in order
to capture high quality images to make the
advert as professional as possible.
However the way I designed my initial idea
for the print advert meant that I would
need two different pictures of the same
person in the same stance. Therefore I set
up a tripod so that the proportions of both
pictures would be similar, if not the same,
to make it easier to edit in Photoshop. I
feel the photos I had taken were very
effective and work well with the
documentary.

12. I used Photoshop to put together the print advertisement for my documentary. After
planning, designing and taking photographs for the advert we began to produce it on
Photoshop. Inserting the pictures and cutting them out was the easy part. However
matching up the pictures so that the facial features were aligned proved to be a
challenging task. We warped and smudged various parts of the models face in order to
align the features.

13. Other tools such as text and shape tools were used in order to give the relevant
information for the audience. The outcome of the print advert was excellent and I
think that it gives off the right feel of fear and phobias for the documentary.

14. We used Audacity to record the voice for our radio advert and documentary
voiceover. To do this we used the college’s radio recording room as this would be the
most suitable place to record the voiceover. After setting up the microphone and
audacity correctly we ensured complete silence in the radio room so the only sound
that was captured was the voiceover. Once we had recorded all the voiceovers that
we needed we imported them into premiere and added the voice over to the radio
ad and documentary. The sound recordings we got for the radio and voiceover were
good and spoken clearly and professionally.

15. I used PowerPoint in my research and evaluation stages to
present my information in a formal but good looking way. I
used PowerPoint alongside slide share and was able to
upload my presentations to slide share, which then
enabled me to embed my presentations on my blog.