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 we
found a dance school in our local area and emailed the dance teacher to find out
weather we could record there. We also looked for a dance shop in the local area and
phoned them but we found that we could not record any footage there because the
shop owner didn’t wish for us to do so. I also did some research on Google and
Wikipedia about the style of dance that I was not 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, this is so we could get
the videos at the highest quality possible and make our documentary look more
professional

4. When constructing my documentary my group
used many different types of media
technologies. When filming our footage we
used a SONY HXR-MC2000E camera, this is a
high quality HD camera, we used this as the
high quality recordings would make our
documentary look more professional.
Although the camera had a built in
microphone when interviewing people we
used a clip microphone so we could have a
better quality of sound as we thought this
would also make our documentary look and
sound more professional. Once we had gained
all the footage we needed for our
documentary we used a USB transfer cable to
take the footage from the camera to the
computer so then we could begin editing the
footage together to make our documentary.

5. We used many of the features in the effects bank.
These features include tools to improve the sound
quality, and example of this would be to remove
Once all our footage was on the computer we
the background noise. This helped my group make
used an editing software called adobe
our documentary look more professional. The
premier CS5, this offered us with lots of
software had an effects bank which let us add a
editing features. We firstly imported all of
number of effects. this helped us improve the
our video clips onto premier, we did not
sound on our documentary, an example of this is
use all the video clips we had but it was
the interviews that we used the clip mic had to use
helpful to have them imported onto
the fill left tool as the sound from that part would
premier.
only play out of the right ear of headphones so by
filling left it would play from both headphones.

6. When creating our opening sequence we used
overlays of flashing lights as we used show lights
on the title of our documentary and also on the
newspaper advertisement as we wanted the
sequence to resemble a music video. We also
used the green screen when recording, this is so
we can remove the background off video clips.
To remove the background we had to use the
chroma key in the effects bank, this is where
you select the colour that you wanted to
remove and changed it to transparent, we had
to us similarity effect as all the green screen was
not exactly the same colour so this would also
remove all they colours that where similar to
the colour we had selected.
The dancers that we used for the green screen
where then too large to fit on the screen, we
had to us the resize tool to make both of the
dancers smaller, this is so they would fit on the
screen, we did this so they could fit on top of
the letters that we wanted them to dance on.

7. This is the graphic in the
middle of a transitions.
It is sliding on to the
page.
We also used transitions such as cuts and dissolves that where part of the
software to change from one clip to another. We also used the
transitions to bring the name graphics on to the page, we used a slide in
to bring the graphics on the the page, and a slide out to remove it from
the page, we did this so the graphics didn’t just suddenly appear on the
page as we thought it wouldn’t look professional if it did that.
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.

8. 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.
For our poster we exported the image from a video
clip from our documentary. As the image was not
a great quality we used some editing features to
improve the quality of the image. Firstly we used
the blend tool to blend together parts of the
background that where not a very good quality. I
also cut around the image to remove parts that
we didn’t want to include such as the black line
above and below the photo.
The above image has an black line
between the wall and the floor, this
is where we used the blend tool

9. We the added the subtract effect to the
image to change the colour of the ballet
shoes from pink to black, this is because
we wanted the shoes to stand out from
the background and we felt that they
didn’t when they where pink. We also
thought that it would make the image
look more abstract as channel 4
newspaper advertisements are usually
quite abstract we added the subtract
effect to that layer to do this.
We then added a layer of stage lights
over this image, we did this because we
used a stage lights image in the title on
the documentary. We also thought it
would make the image look more
abstract.

10. We also used Photoshop to make the graphics for the name tags
in our documentary. We did this by drawing a black rectangle
using the shapes tool, we then added an image of a dancer on
another layer and put it over the black square. We then the
black and white effect on the dancers layer to change her
from colour to black and white, we then used the she shape
tool again to add the stars around the dancer. We then added
the text to it so the persons name who we where
interviewing and also what their occupation was would
appear below them as they spoke.

11. 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.