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Evaluation Q4How did you use media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and Evaluation stages?

Ahmad Wahab

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DocumentaryResearch, Planning, Construction and

Editing

ResearchWe started of by making a mind map of different topics that we were thinking of doing.

We narrowed it down to; Technology in Sport, Travel and Student life

We then decided to do Technology in Sport and once we decided on this topic it was easy for us to look into the topic

We found from using search engines that our topic that Technology in sport is very broad and wide and decided to focus on the controversial topics, i.e. the use of goal line technology in football

The internet was a great source of information to use for information on our topic. We used Google Chrome and Safari.

Research

We also the internet to research into various media institutions and different channels that we can air our program on.

The chanel we went for was BB1, because our research showed that they had a lot of views as well as a good budget.

PlanningFrom the research we found we it easy to create a basic storyboard for our documentary.

Technology also allowed us to arrange our interviews.

We used Tyber, The messaging system for college and social networks like Facebook allowed us to communicate with our experts and arrange our interviews

ConstructionTechnology has allowed us to construct our documentary quickly. The use of a hand-held camera allowed us to go out and use different locations to film our documentary.

The use of a tripod was useful since it allowed us to take steadier shots for our documentary and allowed us to make it more professional.

We used a microphone so that we were able to get a clearer audio from our interviews and minimalise background noise

Editing

Once we gathered all of our footage and still, we used Adobe Premiere Pro to put our documentary together and to add effects.

Premiere Pro

We used different effects and tool to make our documentary look professional and official.

1. We used the transition tools to make our scene changes smooth

2. We used a tool that allowed us to change the sound levels so that our documentary would have consistent sound levels, making it sound more professional

3. We used tools like the title maker, to make our title and put information on the screen. Which we used for our interviews

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Radio TrailerResearch, Planning, Construction and

Evaluation

ResearchWe used online radio and YouTube to research into conventions into Radio Trailers. This allowed us to get a idea of how our Radio should sound like in order to make it professional. We looked into trailers that were roughly about 30-50 seconds. We also searched codes and conventions of a radio trailer to get a better idea of making a radio Trailer. For this we found sites, thanks to google.

Planning

For our radio trailer we also used Microsoft Word to write the script for the voice over. This was very useful since it allowed us to type it in a script layout and it also meant that it was easy for us to make changes to it especially if we make a mistake.

ConstructionFor our radio trailer we used a professional recording device for our voiceover.

This was great since it allowed us to make record a very clear and loud voiceover with little background noise.

Editing

Premiere Pro was also very useful since it allowed us take snippets from the documentary to add into our radio trailer

For our Radio Trailer we used garageband to put it all together.

GarageBand

We used different tools to make our radio trailer and make it sound sound professional.

1. GarageBand was very useful since it was easy to import sound and arrange them into our desired order

2. We used a sound manipulation tool to make our radio trailer sound consistent throughout

3. We used the tools to make fade our music at the end to make the trailer have a better finish

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Magazine Double Page Spread

Research, Planning, Construction and Editing

Research

For our research we used Google image search engine to find magazine articles that were based on TV and Film. From this we found what were written and the topics that they talked about. We also used the research to find conventions used by RadioTimes so that we can recreate what they used.

PlanningForm the research we found we created a double page spread on paper, which helped us to decide on what we wanted in the article, and therefore made it easier in the construction and editing stages.

Construction

For the actual construction, we used Microsoft Word to type the article up.

We took stills from our documentary for our pictures, this was easy as we were able to take screenshots thanks to the computer and since Premiere pro also allowed us to save still images

EditingFor the magazine article, we used Photoshop to make the background of the picture of the referee transparent. We then used InDesign to put the article together.

InDesign

We used InDesign to make our magazine double page spread and make a professional and official looking article from the Radio Times.

1. InDesign allowed us to place our image in its desired location and allowed us to sort out which pictures would be at the back and which ones at the front, i.e. football pitch at the back, referee at the front.

2. We then used InDesign to add the make it look like the RadioTimes, i.e. the placement of the logo, and date

3. InDesign was also great for the article since it had the ability to automatically sort our text according to different font sizes and content for example when we placed the quote, the text behind it wrapped around the quote so nothing was overlapped

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