How did you use the media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Paige Coles

Technologies we used…

Research During our research we used ‘Google’ search engine a lot to

research existing products we wanted to take certain codes and conventions from. Google was also used to look for news reports on crimes involving violent video games. We also used ‘YouTube’ a lot to look up existing documentaries and news reports we could gain information from to add into our documentary.

When we didn’t have access to a computer to do research, we used our mobile phone internets a lot to look up certain YouTube videos or even to look at news reports.

Blogger We used blogger a lot in our research and planning as this

is the place we filed all of our work and research as we were progressing through the course.

Blogger has been useful as we have been able to embed videos and post pictures of wheat we had found to support our project.

We also used programs like ‘Slide Share’ and ‘Scribd’ to embed documents we had produced for the topic.

Blogger was effectively used as a diary to record every thing we achieved during the project.

Micro Soft Office Microsoft Word was a major program we used in the research and planning of our project as we used it to create montages of information to add to the blog. We also used word to construct our questionnaires as it is easy to use.

We also used PowerPoint a lot in out research and planning to create montages of research we had done for the creation of our products.

Construction A main form of technology we used when constructing our

documentary was a video recorder. As it was a visual documentary, we used the camera consistently to record every thing we wanted to include in our production. When we’d record3ed everything we needed, we would upload the footage to the Apple Mac computers and ‘log and transfer’ the footage over to Final Cut Express where we began editing it and creating out final product.

With our Double Page Spread, we used Adobe Photoshop to edit the images we used in the DPS and we used InDesign to create the actual DPS product.

With our Radio trailer, we used an external microphone to record the voice over for the trailer. We also used garage band to create the song to put on the radio trailer (and the documentary). The radio trailer was then developed on Final Cut.

How did we use Final Cut?Fade in and out tool:

The fade in fade out title is dragged down on to the documentary to add it in between two shots.

Editing sound levels:

We used this tool to edit the sound levels of our documentary so the sound levels were all equal and sounded professional.

This ‘blade’ tool was used to cut the clips/sound to the right length for the position they needed to be in.

Adding clips to the documentary:

To add the clips in to the documentary, you drag the clip from the logged, unedited group of clips and place it into the time line.

Makin our radio trailer:

How did we use InDesign?Drop cap tool:

Text wrap tool:

Background deleting (Photoshop):

These tools were used to delete the background of this image.

Placing the image:

To place an image onto InDesign, the image must be placed using the tool indicated.

Making our song on Garage Band

We used the beats provided on the program to make our song.

Evaluation – YouTube We used YouTube to post our video onto the internet. We then embedded the video from you tube onto our blog. YouTube is easily accessible, allowing anyone to view our product.

Evaluation – Power Point/SlideshareFor my evaluation, I used power point to map out the information visually. Then to post it onto the blog, I had to put it onto ‘slide share’ so I could use the embed code. They were both simple to use and converting the power point to slide share wasn’t difficult.