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HOW DI D YOU USE MEDI A TECHNOLOG I ES I N THE
CONSTRUCTI ON AND RESEA RCH, PLANNI NG A ND EVALUATI ON STAGES?
Danielle Ferrier
The main use of technology throughout this project
would be that the majority of the work is completed on a
MacBook Pro. In the previous year we had used the
MacBook Computers so it was slightly different having to
edit our work using a laptop. The MacBook Pro had all
the same programs such as Premiere Pro, which I was
familiar with due to the previous media projects. However
the way in which we had to handle our footage was
slightly different, we had to use VLC which is an open
source media player to view our clips and rename them,
this was to narrow the chances of any further issues with
our footage.
When researching for the idea of my documentary
technology was used such as the Internet and other
documentaries. After watching Nick Broomfield’s ‘The
selling of a serial killer’ and Andrew Jarecki’s ‘Capturing
the Friedman’s’ they gave me a lot of ideas for creating
my own documentary. The video diary effect within
‘Capturing the Friedman’s’ was highly influential to me
and can be seen within my documentary. The Internet had
helped with research on other areas such as which
institution my documentary would most likely be shown in
or other documentaries that followed the same type of
narrative.
For the filming I used a Panasonic camcorder, although
the technology of this model is more advanced and
improved than our old cameras it wasn’t too difficult to
realize how it had to be used. I checked reviews based on
the camcorder I was using to see whether there were any
comments on how it picked up sound, the reasoning for
this was that I didn’t want to use an actual sound recorder
to be less intrusive when interviewing people. However
the camera was perfectly fine at picking up sound which
wasn’t really much difference to the Zoom Sound
Recorder.
During this project I have also used a lot more media
within my blog such as integrating YouTube clips, pictures
and pie charts. Except from using clips from YouTube I
created my own account on Vimeo, this allows you to
upload clips, which you can then use the URL for so that it
appears on your blog. The only time I used this is when I
created a sub clip from my footage, which was my own
opinion on my documentary so I wanted to transfer it onto
my blog. For uploading images onto my blog I also used
Imgur, this is also a website which allows you to edit
images and change the size dimensions, yet again you use
the URL given to you in order for it to show up on your
blog.
I’ve also recently used Voki which is a cartoon video that allows
you to type and a virtual character will speak what you have
typed, I felt this would be a less boring way of presenting shorter
posts. SlideShare Is another website I’ve used in order to present
my evaluation questions within my blog. I didn’t have many issues
when it came to editing the footage as I feel I already had quite a
bit of knowledge on this particular aspect. However I did learn a
new way in which you can cut clips which is by using Markers.
Simply whilst watching of the recorded clips you click the ‘Mark
In’ button on where you would like the beginning to be and ‘Mark
Out’ at the end. Then like a normal clip you drag it into the video
section and carry on editing as normal.
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