1. Question 4: how did you use media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?

2. We used many different forms of technology. To
start with we viewed documentaries on
youtube.com which we made notes about. Next
I created a blogging site on Blogspot.com to
record all my work, this was very simple. Next
we uploaded our notes on the documentaries
and published them, after this we created a
Codes and Conventions list for documentaries.

3. We then began using Microsoft Word where we
created some possible idea’s for our
documentary, after this was done we used Word
and the Internet(for research) to decide what
our documentary should include, when it should
be on, what channel it should be on etc.

4. After this I began come up with ideas for my
own documentary, so I created another new
word file and began constructing a Brainstorm
of Content, which (when completed) was also
uploaded onto my blog.

5. The next piece of equipment we used was the
Kodak scanner, which we used to scan our hand-
drawn location sheets and two storyboards.

6. Next we interviewed four people
from our demographic(two boys
and two girls), we did this using a
XM2 Canon Camera, tripod and a
microphone, which recorded onto
tape which we put onto a
computer with the help of a Sr-
dvm700 tape recorder, the
program we used to capture
export and edit our recordings
was Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. We
then uploaded these onto a
youtube account and embedded
the code onto our blogs;
altogether this was a quite quick
and easy process.

7. We then used Google to complete some of our
research, we looked for takeaways in our local
area with telephone numbers so we could
arrange an interview.

8. We then gave out a
questionnaire we
had completed on
Microsoft Word,
after we gathered
the results we used
Microsoft Excel to
tally up the totals
and to produce pie
charts which we
then uploaded to
our blogs.

9. Next we typed up our formal proposal and
uploaded it onto our Blogs. We then went back
to Google to find some statistics and facts which
we could use in our documentary, we made
notes of all our sources so we could refer back
to them at any point.

10. We then began to draw single frames for all the
interviews, so we would have an idea of what
we were going to do, we then scanned these in
and uploaded them to our blogs.

11. We then began to start
filming still using the
XM2 Canon Camera
and the tripod, we
used tape as it could
hold more video
footage.

12. To prove that we were actually filming we had to
take pictures of ourselves, we used a Sanyo Xacti
HD1 camera and also sometimes used the
Blackberry phone camera. We planned to take
photo’s so we could include them in our filming
diary’s

13. For the interviews we used a mobile phone to
ring the takeaways owners(or managerial staff),
we also used the internet and emails, to contact
them.

14. After this we went to the editing suite, were we
began importing all of the footage off our tape,
we used Adobe Premiere Pro again. We
captured all the footage onto the program so
that it was saved and so we could re-use the
type for more filming.

15. After capturing the footage we then set about
organising the clips into a correct order, this
gave us an insight into what our documentary
will look like, we then carefully selected which
shots we were going to keep and which shots we
would bin, we also added a few transitions and
effects.

16. We carried on editing our documentary, using
some of the tools on Adobe Premiere, we cut
down the clips with the ‘razor tool’ and using
the zoom in tool to cut them down precisely
where we wanted it. This gave us a precise and
clean finish.

17. We then began adding music to our
documentary, we first used it whilst creating the
montage at the beginning of the documentary,
trying to synchronise the clips as best as we
could. We then added titles to the interviewee
clips introducing them and their relation to the
documentary.

18. Next we moved onto the issue of the sound. We
started by making a riff from the song loop, we
carefully cut the song down in Adobe Premiere,
we tried to keep the sound smooth and
consistent with an effect called the ‘constant
power’. We lowered the sound in interviews, so
the interviewee could be heard, we sometimes
even faded the whole song out.

19. We used a blue screen during interviews to
enhance the interview. We did this by first
applying a ‘chroma key’ in the menu of ‘video
effects’ to the interviewee. Then we put the
image that we chose on the layer underneath it
on the timeline. We then smoothed out the
rough edges and changed the opacity to make it
look as professional as possible. This enhanced
our interviews and made them a lot more
exciting to the audience.

20. We used a decent amount of
archive footage in the
documentary. We used several
from restaurants after checking
to see whether we could use
them we downloaded them
and imported them into Adobe
Premiere. In one aspect we
recorded ourselves on the
JustEat.com website. We did
this with a program called
Daniusoft and then imported it
like any other type of media.

21. For the voice over we had to create a script, this
was later typed up onto Word, we asked a friend
to read it and recorded him in the radio room,
using a program called Audacity, we also used
radio equipment, headphones and
microphones. We then recorded each bit of
narration separately and when we finished we
saved both files as MP3 files.

22. Before we could start on
our print advert we had to
look at other adverts so we
could have an idea of what
the channel and age group
desire’s in their adverts,
we used a channel 4
website called
www.4creative.co.uk to
look at other print adverts.

23. We then began by drawing a draft of out print
advert which we then scanned onto the
computer. We then constructed the final piece
for this we used Adobe Photoshop. Using the
lassoo tool to cut out the image of the meal.

24. For the Audience feedback we decied to access
a bigger audience, we did this by using Facebook
I posted my video as a status asking my friends
to comment. We also used a questionnaire to
get a more positive and more deep answers.