Question 4: How did

you use new media

technologies in the

construction and

research, planning and

evaluation stages?Victoria Weller

I used many different media technologies, this allowed me to make my work look more professional and show my abilities through my work. In the research stage I use programmes such as YouTube Google and channel 4OD, by doing this it helped us decide on the type of documentary we wanted.

This research helped us once me and my partner had been put into our pair, we then created a long list of possible topics for our documentary which consisted of topics such as make up, animal and bullying. After we had discussed about the possibilities we finalised our idea on dreams.

We then went on to create a questionnaire to gain valuable information and this helped us with the basic information on our documentary to create this questionnaire we used Microsoft to create the graphs we used Microsoft Excel to tally up our results. We then used Microsoft PowerPoint to present our results.

Microsoft Word also allowed me to create my running order which helped me plan my documentary with my partner. This software also allowed me to record my primary and secondary research when planning my three media products. Microsoft word was also used to create the questionnaires for my audience feedback and other questionnaires used through the process of the documentary these results were then recorded in Microsoft excel and created into graphs. Microsoft PowerPoint has been very useful in recording my work and putting it on my blog through other software's such as brain shark and Slideshare.

Once we had finished getting help from the public through our questionnaires we needed to think about the people we would like to interview for the documentary and how we would contact them, we did this by using our mobile phones and online email to ask possible doctors, physiologists and sleep paralysis suffers if they would mind getting involved in the documentary by being interviewed.

When conducting our research through audience questionnaires, I used a Voice Recorder to record them reading out the questionnaire and their answers to each of the questions. We then uploaded them to the computer and presented them on our blogs.

To create my main product we used many technologies. The main ones I used was a HD camera, this was used throughout and was used to film every piece of work for our documentary, apart from the still images. This camera was great to use as it gave great quality. The next piece of equipment we used was a tripod, this was used to help us get steady shot on our interviews and cutaways. Next we used the clip on microphone this was clipped onto the interviewee so we were able to hear them properly. Moreover the next piece of equipment we used a SLR camera, this was used to take shots of us filming and any still images we took including our picture advert. These new media products allowed me to develop my documentary after uploading the shots onto adobe premiere pro.

Megan and I worked together to create a formal proposal for our documentary. To present this I used an online tool called Prezi, this is a presentation software online that have used a lot throughout the presentation of my AS to A2 coursework.

To present the script I had made for the documentary I used the another online software tool called Emaze, when creating the script it was vital that the subject of dreams was apparent the whole way through the documentary. Emaze is a creative way to present slideshows.

The other tools used to present my work and research into my blog were • Powtoon• Slideboom• Slideshare• Brainshark• Glogster• Spiderscribe• Smore

All these tool were useful in presenting my work in different ways onto my blog, giving each piece of work a different way to look at it. All the online software's were easy to use as once I had created/ uploaded my work onto them I just needed the embed code to put on my blog at blogger.com

When recording our voice over for the documentary and the radio trailer, we used Weatherhead’s Ice Radio Studio, here there is high tech equipment used for the schools radio station. We chose this place to film the voiceovers/radio trailer as we wanted the best quality of sound so the audience would be able to hear the voice clearly.

In order to create the voice over and radio trailer for the documentary I used Adobe Audition to edit the track. I had not used this software before so I therefore had learn about the software however it was reasonably easy to use. However I did learn many new skills such as learning how to fade the videos into one another and changing the sound levels.

I used Adobe Photoshop to edit my picture ad, as I had used this in year 1 for my as level media I found it easy to use as I knew how to work all the tools. I used a HD Camera to take photos of a birds eye view of my actress asleep in bed to present the topic of dreams. I used Adobe Photoshop to edit my print advertisement. By using the tools I was able to fade images layered on top of one another. The text tool allowed me to insert the text onto the images, to show that it was a documentary print advert.

Adobe Premier Pro was used in post production for editing the actual documentary. Here I was able to cut the documentary so it ran smoothly as well being able to add effects to some of our clips to make them look more dark and dreamy. I had used Adobe Premiere Pro before so I did not face much difficulty when using this software. As I was with a partner we were able to put our different skills together and edit the documentary to the best of our ability.

All the adobe applications crossed over in the production of the documentary, as I had used most of the software before and was familiar with it I was able to make three successful products that show the topic of dreams effectively with the right information. As the adobe applications crossed over this made things a little easier for myself as I could use the tools provided on each software efficiently.

When creating the documentary we needed to obtain 30 seconds of Archive footage in the first five minutes of the documentary. After research we found that the online website computerhope.com was the easiest way to convert a YouTube clip into a file so we could import it into our documentary.

To import any of the music bed we had in the documentary we used Youtube to MP3 converter, this allowed us to import our background music into the documentary.