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

2. This the HXR – MC2000E sony HD broadcast Video camera. This is a professional
Camera with a 1080p HD resolution. We first used this camera whilst videoing the band
Play live on stage. We used two to capture both sides of the stage, giving us more footage
To use whilst editing. They have an excellent picture quality, and the sony boom mic that
Comes with it worked exceptionally well with the sound of the band. It wasn’t distorted or unable to be heard when
played back. We used them on all of our interviews, they have a good frequency response so the sound levels in the
interviews are really clear.
These cameras work exceptionally well with everything we used them for, you can move them fast without them
going blurry, the auto focus works fast and doesn’t take ages to focus, which could possibly ruin the shot. The manual
focus is very good, it has a very large depth of field and can focus everything in the cameras view.
The cameras have an excellent battery storage, so when it came to use videoing the band for a constant 30
mins, both cameras held out well and lost hardly any battery. We also went on to video interviews afterwards and
vox pops, and the battery was still full.
I have also used this camera whilst recording myself evaluate my documentary.

3. Computers.
• For the computers, we used a dell insperon. These are what we did everything on.
We edited our documentary, radio advert, poster and also our blogs.
• The computers are I7’s, 16GB ram, and they are a dell XPS
• Theses computers ran Photoshop, Premier and Blogger exceptionally well and
extremely fast. These are very good to work on because they almost never
malfunction or freeze, all work is easily saved on them and easy to find because
they have windows seven.
• When uploading the videos and watching them back, they had an excellent
playback quality and never crashed or took too long when uploading.

4. Radio Studio
• In the radio studio, we had to use audacity to record our radio voice over. We used
professional standard mic’s used for the priestley radio station. They are very clear
and work well for editing and cutting.
• The room is small and the mics have an cardioid pickup patter so that the only
sound picked up comes from in front of the mic.

5. Clip mics
• In some of our interviews, we used the clip mics instead of the attached camera
mics. This was done to get just the sound of his voice and minimal room sound.
• These mics only record in mono, so the sound has to be edited into stereo when
being used in premier.
Boom Mic
The Boom micc attached to the HD camera came in very
handy when we recorded the band live. They have an
excellent frequency response, and pick up all the sound
well. I first expected the sound to come out quite bassy or
distorted, but all the sound levels are fairly even and
sound really great.

6. Tripods
• The HD cameras came with big tripods. These came in really handy when we were
videoing the whole band rehearse in the studio. We were able to get a high up
view of the whole band, and capture all the features of the room as well as each
instrument.
• Manfroto is the make of the tripod. It is a strong, robust and easy to use tripod
that is made specifically for the HXR.
USB transfer
• For the USB transfer we used a USB to Micro USB
port to transfer the Media/Video clips over.

7. Adobe Premier.
• Premier is a movie making software used by film
makers, production teams and studios. It is an outstanding
piece of software. We used it to edit, manipulate and piece
together our documentary. It has so many different
features that work extremely well when editing a
documentary. Fill Left is a sound effect we needed and
used to fill in one side of the stereo because the clip mics
record in mono. Some of the clips were too dark, so there
was a feature in the editing folder where we could increase
the brightness and contrast to brighten the visual image
but also keep it looking professional.
• There are different sections in the editing section where
you can line up video clips and over lap them, this is where
we cut and stuck clips and audio files together in a
sequence to make our documentary.
• There are many different tools to use when editing, like
sound increase/decrease to change the sound levels. There
is also a brightness control on the actual video clip
itself, and the cut tool to cut up sections of video footage.

8. Photoshop
• Photoshop is software used by
professional graphic designers to edit
and manipulate photos to a professional
level. We used this in the editing of our
poster. We uploaded the photo onto
photoshop, manipulated the brightness
and contrast to enhance the photos
quality, and then added text around the
image to narrate it. Photoshop contains
many different features for editing
photos. You can completely change an
image with all features it has, from
changing the colours, to manipulating
the subject matter of the image.
Distorting, moving, blurring the image.
This can be done to set the focus of an
image, and make the image eye
catching.

9. blogger/Word/Excell
• I used word when writing up, as well as blogger because its easily
accessible and easy to change what has been written. It came in handy
whilst doing our audience feedback because you can insert graphs, and
then edit the graphs through excell.
Word came in handy when doing our research and planning because you
can copy anything you like, information, archive images and texts and
other forms of research to be uploaded onto blogger. Is it a very useful
piece of software.

10. Dafont.
• Dafont.com is a website that people upload there own
stylized and designed fonts that people can download and use
for any purpose they like.
We used a font from dafont.com for our poster. We wrote the
heading we wanted, took the font from the site, and then
copied into photoshop and edited onto our poster.

11. Blogger
• Blogger.com is a website that people use
to blog anything they like. We use blogger
for our media studies and use it to post
our research and work we have done for a
specific topic.
Blogger is quick and easy to use, and is
very affective and looks quite professional.
Its much better than a load of written up
work because this can be handled neatly
used in many different ways.
• Blogger comes in handy very well when
doing our research and planning. We can
upload it easily onto blogger so its
accessible anywhere, and easy to
understand.

12. Additional information!
• Camera – 1080p HD broadcast video camera.
• Adobe Premier – EQ (to change and edit the sound
levels/frequencies of an audio file)
Effects – To change and manipulate sound and video
files to best fit your imagination. Such as,
Transitions, cross dissolves and brightness/contrast.
Rasterisation – This the process use go through when
you have finished your video editing, to put the
video/audio files at full quality.
• Photoshop
Layers are the different images laid on top or
underneath each other with photoshop.