The document discusses the various hardware, software, and tools used to complete a documentary project. It describes using a Dell XPS 8500 computer with 3rd generation Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM to edit videos in Adobe Premiere Pro and photos in Adobe Photoshop. A Sony HXR-MC2000 camera was used to capture 1080p footage, along with a clip microphone for interviews. Canon EOS 1100D DSLR, tripod, and Adobe Photoshop were used to create a poster. Internet research, YouTube uploads, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint were also utilized.

1. Question 4

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•8GB1 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
•2TB Serial ATA (7200RPM) Hard Drive
•NVIDIA® GeForce GT 640 1GB DDR5 Graphics Card

3. USB to device
I used this (or similar) cable to transfer all of my external files
that I have collected through the use of camera, zoom mic, XLR
camera and other devices to my computer (see slide 1)
Not all of these cables have the same output on both sides for
example the camera and the XLR have different sized ports
Leads like this make it much easier to edit files on the computer
as the alternative such as Bluetooth is unreliable and can end up
with corrupt files.

4. Sony HXR - MC2000
I used the Sony HXR MC2000 to capture all of the footage for my
documentary, it is a very high quality camera with a LCD touch screen to
navigate through the various menus. These cameras have a solid state
hard drive which is more appropriate for a sturdy broadcast camera . It is a
generally user friendly camera as the interface is quite easy to use. It also
records at 1080p which is about as good as it gets. The only real downside
to this mammoth of a camera is that it is large and heavy which makes it
difficult to travel with it on foot.
We used a clip microphone when interviewing our “addicts” to
ensure that our sound was not only to the highest quality but
also consistent this was a large focus point for us because in
the early stages of the research we watched some previous
documentaries which we found the sound to be unbearable
so we made sure that we did not go the same way.
We also used a tripod which is a very
important piece of equipment especially in a
documentary as the framing is always similar
using rule of thirds which is why the camera
must be steady

5. Canon EOS 1100D Digital SLR
We us this Canon SLR camera to capture
the images for our poster , it is high quality
but rather complicated to use as it has
many features and functions that we did
not need. We also used a tripod when we
took the pictures to ensure that the image
came out at a perfect angle.

6. Editing Software
We used adobe photo shop to edit our image
for our poster, it is a very complex program
that takes practice but the results are
worthwhile. We have used photo shop
before so it is not so much “being thrown in
the deep end”
We used adobe premiere pro to edit our
documentary from stage one until the very end.
It is also a quite complex program to use but the
controls are relatively easy to pick up, things like
fade ins etc . Premiere pro is the program we
used most in comparison to any other as it took
considerable hours to edit the documentary
piece by piece.

7. Internet
 We used Internet explorer of Mozilla Firefox (my preference is Firefox) to research various things
that we needed to put on our blogs.
We also used the internet to use blogger which is where all of our coursework is compiled together
in the form of a blog. Blogger is a very complicated site that takes many hours for simple tasks like
moving images and adding links/videos/files. Blogger is good because it made it possible to keep
all our work in an organized fashion, all in chronological order including videos, images and html
links.
 We also used youtube to upload our work on to a shared account so that it could be transfered
onto our blogs, these were the full documentary and the radio advert.

8. Word/Power point/Excel
Word: We use(d) Microsoft word frequently to type
up all our documents and transferred them to
blogger
Excel: We used excel briefly just to create accurate
graphs for our audience feedback.
Power point: We used MS power point to create
presentations which are many steps so that the
audience can take it all in