HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH AND PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

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We started our documentary by planning what it would contain and what our chosen subject would be. We worked as a group to work out what we though would be good subjects that are relatable to things now and relevant to most teenagers, as they were are decided target audience. To do this we started with a basic brain storm. From that we chose “illegal downloading” as our subject matter. From this we together and also individually did research into the subject, we started of with looking at a basic documentary characteristics and the things you would find in a documentary such as voiceover, vox pop’s , professional interviews etc. we then used the internet and websites such as YouTube, bbciplayer and 4ondemand as all these sites allowed us to access past and present TV documentary's and were able to see a wide variety from ones made at home by people on YouTube to ones that are professionally composed and broadcasted on TV all for free, this allowed us to understand they type of documentary we wanted to broadcast, we chose a relaxed and relatable feel was what we wanted and we wanted it to have a young and youthful presentation.

PLANNING- DOCUMENTARY

We used the internet to research are subject as we needed to be able to provide facts and statistics for are documentary otherwise it wouldn’t feel like we were telling the truth about the subject matter. We used websites such as BBC news, Google, music lab, radio 1 etc. We also used the internet to contact are professional interviewees too arrange are interviews with them and also emailed the questions via email before the interview so that the interview could potentially prepare for the questions, giving us a very good outcome of a strong interview. We also used YouTube within the construction of are documentary as background footage to show the websites that people are using to illegally download form.

RESEARCH

To create the documentary we used a variety of media technologies to construct everything into its complete stages. We started with a basic video recorder and a tri-pod to recorded are footage with, after every filming session we had to lock and transfer are footage to make sure it saved to our final cut file on the apple mac’s where we all had are own individual group folders where we stored are footage ready for editing and selection as a lot of the footage we recorded we didn’t end up using as we had so much. With the cameras we were able to adjust the sound levels and the zoom and because we had a tri-pod we could do pan shots and high and low allowing us to have a variety of camera angles and shots. We also had to use headphone to make sure that when we were filming the sound was also being recorded, sometimes we had issues with the headphones not working but we overcame all these problems by team work and basic knowledge within the group of how to adjust the media technologies.

CONSTRUCTION

Once all our final footage had ben view and selected we began editing in “final cut express” which is a programme on the apple mac’s, we had drawn out a storyboard of our documentary which allowed us to create are documentary around that.. We were able to add in editing transitions which we had a wide range of and allowed us to give a smooth overall finish to are documentary allowing it too look as professional as possible.