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

2. Planning For the planning stages we used various websites for research. We went on Google to find images to be used in our documentary. For our secondary research we went on websites such as www.tea.co.uk/facts and www.hupages.com

3. Filming We used many media technologies in our filming stages. For our interviews and voxpops, we used a camera and a tripod. Since the sound was being recorded for this, we used a microphone that could clip on to the interviewees’ clothes. This was used to cut out the background noise, making the sound of better quality. The microphone was not needed for the cutaways since we were not using any of the sound from it.

4. For one of our interviews we used a bluescreen as a background so we could edit in an image later on in the editing process to create mise-en-scene. We used lights to make the picture quality more professional, but we had to be careful not to make too many shadows as it makes it difficult to cut it out when it comes to the editing. Here you can see the shadow as we interviewed James. We adjusted it so the shadow was less visible, but evidently it can still be seen. In hindsight we would have had no shadow, but we managed to edit it out with the shadow in the editing stages

5. Editing For our opening title we used stop motion animation of a jar of teabags falling and spelling out ‘Milk and 2 Sugars’. We made each ‘clip’ one second long so that they were at equal length. We wanted it to be faster though, so we right-clicked each ‘clip’ and selected ‘duration’, speeding it up to 300% of its original length.

6. We added in the teacup in the background for mise-en-scene. We did this by going on ‘Video effects’, and clicking part of the background. The colours that matched with the part we clicked could then be cut out.

7. For the interview with Annette the background didn’t quite cover the whole screen. In response we selected ‘Video effects’ and changed the positioning of the screen by dragging one of the two ‘position’ numbers . This moved it to the left so that the end of the background sheet could not be seen.

8. Evaluation I used a variety of new media technologies to complete my evaluation. For the first question I recorded myself alone in a room with a camera, talking about the codes and conventions we used. I also audio recorded myself for question two.