Evaluation question 4

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

• Evaluation Question 4

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Internet

• We used the internet to gather information such
  as historical facts to modern economical
  statistics. We recorded these in our research
  record with a bibliography of links showing where
  we gained this information on the internet.

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Blogger

• The first technology we used was blogger, we set
  up our blogs to be on output for our coursework
  thought the duration of the course. This proved
  to help us in our planning as I had access to all
  my research and planning in one area which I
  could easily access whilst working on the
  documentary. It also added organisation to my
  work as all individual work was in one area.

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Google Drive

• Google drive allowed me and my group to upload
  our work in an area which was accessible to all
  of us wherever we wanted which combated the
  problem of the production and most of the
  coursework being done on one computer due to
  storage space. This was helpful to us in many
  ways as we created a group account which we could
  access from any computer.

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Prezi

• I used the presentation tool prezi in order to
  add versatility to my work in the evaluation
  stage in order to use as many technologies as
  possible. This is a technology which gives more
  possibilities for my works presentation as it
  differs from presentation tools such as
  powerpoint.

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Youtube

• We used youtube to review other documentaries in
  order to draw codes and conventions for our
  research and planning. We looked at documentaries
  such as The Music Biz and The Devil Made Me Do It
  in order to gain an insight to documentary codes
  and conventions. We also used youtube to gain
  archive footage for our documentary so we could
  show the audience footage which we werent able
  to apprehend. We also used youtube to find our
  song which was a reoccurring theme of our
  documentary. We used another technology which was
  youtube to mp3/4 converters to get our
  footage/audio onto our documentary.

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Slideshare

• I used slideshare for many reasons, one of which
  was to add more types of presentation tools to
  add versatility to my research and planning. I
  specifically used slideshare because of its easy
  to use nature and the fact that it is a widely
  used presentation tool which allows me to
  showcase the different technologies available on
  the internet.

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Scribd

• I used scribd as a presentation tool to add
  versatility to my works presentation, as the more
  technologies used I felt it bettered my works
  appearance as it demonstrates my knowledge of the
  internet and its presentation tools.

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Tagul

• We used tagul for our brainstorm as it offered a
  creative alternative to just using a list. It
  offered us different avenues which were more
  creative to present my work. I used tagul mainly
  for brainstorming parts of my coursework.

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Eval and go

• I used eval and go as a method to get my
  questionnaire out to people, as opposed to
  handing out physical copies, I utilised the
  ability to put the questionnaire on the internet
  which demonstrates knowledge and understanding of
  the capabilities of the internet. To get my
  questionnaire to people I used social medias such
  as Twitter and Facebook to my advantage and
  posted the questionnaire on these social medias
  for the questionnaire to have a wider range of
  people to answer my questionnaire.

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Photoshop

• We used photoshop to produce our still advert and
  edit images. This is a technology we used to
  produce a high quality image and took advantage
  of photoshops in depth features in order to alter
  our photo to a professional standard. We used
  many features of photoshop such as the cut out
  tool to merge the two images together. Although
  we encountered problems where the cut out tool
  gave the image a jagged look, we overcame this
  problem by using the blur tool to soften the
  outlines and blend in with the background.

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Adobe Premier

• We used Adobe premier for the bulk of our work as
  we created the documentary using this software.
  We used the technology to cut interviews into
  segments, add graphics, add audio such as
  voiceovers and music, add archive footage, and so
  on. We used the audio mixer to balance the audio
  and tidy up any auditory problems we encountered
  during the recordings. We also used effects such
  as fades between audio to create cohesion between
  the audio tracks. We were also able to set
  different layers of audio where the voiceover was
  more prevalent over the music. We used premier to
  add graphic such as lower thirds titling and to
  add the name of the documentary of the opening
  sequence.

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Microsoft word

• We used Microsoft word to create our coursework
  before putting it into a presentation tool such
  as scribd. We planned the initial plan,
  brainstorm of content and other pieces of
  coursework on Word to then process through a
  presentation tool as I felt comfortable with Word
  and had previous knowledge of features which
  would make my work easier.

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SLR Camera Sony Camera

• We used the different types of cameras to record
  interviews, voxpops and take still pictures for
  our still advert. We used these cameras because
  they are high quality cameras which adds the
  professional element to our work. The video
  camera was almost always used with the tripod to
  add stability to the shot so our recording was
  not unprofessional.

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Sound

• Microphone We used the microphone with the Sony
  camera in order to get the audio to the highest
  possible quality in the interviews in order to
  follow codes and conventions of documentaries to
  make our documentary as professional as possible.
  We pinned the microphone on the interviewee out
  of sight to pick up audio straight from the
  interviewee rather than using the boom.
• Radio Room We used the radio room to record our
  voiceover as this provided us with the highest
  quality of sound with no background noise. This
  was essential in our production as it provided us
  with professional quality sound. I used the
  software audacity to record the voiceover as it
  offered an easily usable interface which I could
  operate easily.

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VLC Media

• We used VLC media to view our recordings of the
  interviews, voxpops and cutaways. We used this
  often as it was an essential tool for logging the
  videos we recorded to keep track of the footage
  we obtained throughout the process of gaining
  footage.