I have used many media technologies throughout the research, planning and evaluation stages.
Firstly in my research and planning stages, I used many media technologies, such as; The internet. Before we even started i researched into what a documentary was and what different types of documentarys there are. I researched topics for our final documentary by looking on google and other web searches to get information and secondary research about attraction and by looking through internet images to see what represents attraction, also researching common sayings that are relevant to attraction such as 'birds of a feather flock together' this gave us an insight and knowledge aboout attraction so we knew ourselves what we wear talking about, which helped when coming to film our expert physcologist. I also researched many other attraction documentaries on youtube, to get an insight into the content and layout of how they placed all the key elements together, what worked and what didn't work in their documentaries so we knew what would look good and proffesional.
I also used the internet in order to plan for my film poster, looking at all kinds of channel 4 posters, and annotating and analysing them to see the key features, colours, text, layout etc that channel 4 posters had used, so that our poster would reflect this and look proffesional.
And thirdly looked on the internet to listen to radio trailers, I then made notes of all the codes and conventions of radio trailers (which are placed on my blog), which helped me place all the bits and pieces together to make our own radio trailer.
In the planning stages i also used media technologies, by creating a film diary, and digital camera images of us, it explained what we had filmed, when we filmed it and how well it did or didn't work. When we were filming we made sure that the locations, settings, and camera was all fully correct and set up perfectly, we asked permission and made sure that it was ok to film were we were in Warrington town centre. When we were filming we each made sure that the camera angle and stand point of the person was correct to make it look proffesional and as perfect as possible.
I used Microsoft word in order to create our target audience research questionnaires, we used word because it was simple to type and easy to bullet each question from the next.
I then used Microsoft excel in order to create pie charts for our answers, which worked really well to come up with our conclusions and end results, we could see clearly our end results and we got a lot of information and inspiration from our results.
I also used Microsoft PowerPoint in the research and planning stages, to create timelines and brainstorms of idea’s, which were very useful as I could make as many points as possible to link everything together, and gave us loads of idea's to work with about the content of our idea's and it explains on my blog brainstorm why we used certain things.
In the construction stages we used a variety of media technologies.
We used all the camera equipment that was offered to us to be sure to create a variety of shots, angles and frames. We used the tripod and camera to film our vox pops in Warrington town centre; this created a still framing and made all the shots calm and clear. We also use this equipment to film our interviews because we wanted the shot to just sit facing the people we interviewed, it would stay steady and flow really smoothly.
We also used the camera and microphone in order to film our radio trailer and narration in the red room, the microphone made the narrators voice sounds clear and strong and was of a really good sound quality.
I also used Adobe Photoshop a lot throughout to construct our film poster, which was really good, as we could play around with colours, sizing, scale etc to create the best poster that we possibly could, and it helped us as we could change almost everything we wanted to, and add different text, font and images.
We used digital cameras in order to take pictures of our poster, we took a variety of pictures and selected the best quality ones and the one that related mostly to our film, and we also took pictures of ourselves in the filming process with all the equipment.
We used adobe premiere to edit and capture our entire documentary opening, we were not new to working with Adobe Premire so we knew what we were doing and had knowledge and understanding as to how to use it. We cut all of the shots down so that everything flowed well and was as perfect as we could get it, we mainly used cross dissolves throughout which worked really well and looked professional for them shots that we could not change but could fiddle around with. Throughout the interviews we added cut a ways in unclear stops and starts and when the interview was getting to long, to make it more interesting and entertaing which is very common with documentarys. We adjusted all our sound levels so it was all the same level throughout and was clear, bold and on the same pace throughout and all was on one level, we made the narration loud, as when we put it into premiere it was far to quiet and didn’t work very well, so by adjusting it, it flowed really well. We also created many effects with the titles and graphics, by getting a pair of lips to kiss the screen to make it fun and cheeky and getting hearts to float across the screen-this was quite difficult to do but once we got the hang of it, it became a lot simpler to do. We also added archive footage from skins, eastenders and coronation street from youtube.com, this was to add kissing scenes and love scenes into our documentary which would last about 20-30 seconds, and related perfectly to our theme.
In the evaluation stages I have used many conventions and media technologies, for example; I have filmed myself answer the questions by using the camera, tripod and microphone, I have also written essay answers with lots of details, images and screen grabs from our documentary piece to compare to real media technologies, also i have used audio sounds of myself answering questions.
I think because we have learnt and used real media technologies, it has given us a broader insight and helped us alot throughout creating our documentary piece, it has made me more confident using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe premire, and i can now work with the camera equipment really well and have a clear understanding as to how to use everything.
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