Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

After all the filming and planning for the documentary was complete we needed to put it all together in order for it to be a

documentary, to do this we used our skills on final cut pro to make it look as professional as we could.

As I had never used final cut before I had to try and pick it up straight away and quite quickly in order to get as much done in the little time

we had.

The advantages of working with a lovely group is that we all had different skills to bring together; we could all help each other's

weaknesses with our strengths

How to log and transferAfter everything was ready to be put together, and we’d uploaded all the video footage to our area, we needed to do something called log and transfer; this is basically adding all of the videos onto final cut in order for them to be edited.

After I had opened final cut I clicked on file then log and transferThis then came up

When this comes up I needed to find where I saved all my videos and click open this then puts them into final cut

After I had done this I then needed to rename the videos and add the

ones I wanted to use in my final documentary; I knew which ones we

wanted to use because a story board/plan was made in the

planning process.

Here is where I renamed the ones I wanted to use

Then click add clip to queue and it will add it to the others I wanted to use

After clicking off that, here are all the clips I added ready to be edited and put together

How to add clips to the timeline

To add each video onto the timeline I would need to cut it where I want

to; to do this I would use the shortcuts on the keyboard; ‘I’ for in

to start and ‘o’ for out to end it.The two blue arrows would then

appear on the screen and this is where the video would start and

stop.

To then add this onto the timeline I would simply drag and drop the clip

I wanted to use into the correct space.

How to add a fade onto a clip

On the right hand side there is a toolbar; on this toolbar there is a fading tool I used. I used this in order for things to run smoothly

and for there not to be too many straight cuts.

This is the fading tool

In order to do a fade I will need to over lay the two clips otherwise there will be a black screen between them

All I needed to do is click the top of the clip, with the fading tool, then drag it to the bottom; the wider spread the line is the bigger the

fade.

How to change sound levels on a clip

When listening through clips together I realised that some of them seemed louder than others. I needed to change this so that

they all sounded the same and no one stood out.

To do this I moved the pink line up and down; this needed a lot of experimenting and perseverance

How to change sound levels on a clip

Sometimes changing the sound levels using the pink line wasn’t good enough and some clips were still too quiet; to change this I

needed to change the speed, this deepens the voice and slows it down to make it seem louder.

How to add a title/writing onto a clip After the opening sequence I wanted to put on the title on one clip; this will open up the documentary. To do this I needed to click

on the clip I wanted to add the text to and click the drop down menu and then text.

When this menu comes up I put in my text, changed the size, font and colour. When I have finished this I was then able to

move the text around on the screen.

How to add music onto the documentary

To add music to the documentary we would simply drag and drop the file onto the timeline.

When changing the music we simply place one another next to each other. (picture above)

Again, to change the volume we would move the pink line up or down.

After we had made the documentary we was asked to make a magazine article that would try and persuade people to watch the

documentary.

To do this we used InDesign. Due to last years tasks I had already used this programme and was therefore clued up on how to find my way

around it pretty easily. This programme has a lot of tools that can help us make the article appeal more to the eye.

How to make a layout

To make a layout we simply use text boxes; we do this by using the ‘T’ tool on the toolbar found on the left hand side. This is a way to show

where things will need to go when we start importing pictures and text.

How to add text and change it!The article was wrote on a separate article that was then simply copied and

pasted over to the layout.

The title was then wrote in the two text boxes

provided; the font and style of the text was

changed using the toolbar at the top of the

page.

The toolbar is used to change the font, the size, bold, italic or to make it bigger or smaller!

How to add text and change it!

When I was happy with how the font looked I then changed the colours of the font. To do this I clicked on the text and a colour palate came up on the right hand side; this enables me to change the colour and make

it exactly how I want it to be.

How to add text and change it!

Once I had finished with the text I could then add in the images. I already knew where the pictures needed to be so I therefore just needed

to import them. To import them I just went to file, import, then import images. After that I would need to find the images I wanted

and then add them to the article.

How to add text in a circle

We decided that we wanted to add some red coloured shapes onto the article; this

would hold little facts about binge drinking. To do this I had to add a circle; I

clicked on the tiny arrow in the right corner of the square shape button, this then gave

me the option to draw a circle or a rectangle. I clicked circle. Once I had drawn

the circle where I wanted the colour palate came up and I was then able to change the

colour of the circle to make it stand out. To add text I would just start writing and then

change the style with the toolbar at the top!

Throughout the whole process of making the documentary, radio trailer and the article we had to upload our evidence and work to a

blog. These were the same blogs as what we used last year and therefore I knew how to use them.

We needed to upload different things to the blog such as images, word documents and PowerPoint's. We also needed to make

diary entries as to what we had been doing throughout the weeks to show how we were getting on; this was simply just wrote straight onto

a post on the blog.

How to make a new post on the blog

To make a new post on my blog I would click the button that looks like a

pencil.

This would then come up. On here I can then write straight into the

text box or upload images with it. I would then also need to give it a

title to say what it is I’m uploading.

When this is all complete I would click publish and then whoever viewed the blog could see it; I could still go back onto it to change it if I needed to. If I

hadn’t finished with what I was doing I would simply click save and I could go back to it before publishing it straight onto the blog.

How to upload a image to the blog

When making a post where I wanted to upload an image I would just click on the insert image

button

This would then come up; because I had already saved the pictures to my area I just needed to click Choose files and find where I’d previously saved the

ones I wanted to upload.

After I had done this I would click add selected and the images would be there ready to upload.

How to labels to the blog

On the right hand side of the post is something called labels. As this is a group blog we would all need to

take credit for what we did individually. By adding a label it

shows who has produced what work.