Evaluation

Question 1 of A2 Evaluation from AbbieSimm

Question 2:

Another thing that was combined was the fact that we used sound bites from the documentary in the radio advert, this was so that the audience would get a preview of what they were going to watch and what the documentary would be like. A clever thing we did while making the newspaper advert was combine the theme song of the documentary which is "Five colours in her hair" by mcfly. We did this by using photoshop skilfully and changing one of the characters which is on the newspaper adverts by adding 5 different hair colours. This was an inside thing we decided to do to create a bit more depth in it that the audience could maybe think about and connect together.

Question 3:

When we first started creating the documentary we decided that we wanted to make the documentary not only funny but also factual but after we got feedback of tutors and other people they said that they didn't like it and that it didn't really fit in. We are glad that we asked for feedback because if we hadn't that part of the documentary would still be there and looking back now we realised that they were right and it didn't seem to look right or fit in. The feedback we did get back from the tutors helped a lot looking back now and the feedback we got back from them only made our documentary better by how it was fitted well together and made it look more professional.

Question 4:

For the construction of the documentary we used many media technologies. We used the radio room as part of the construction which was for the voiceover of the documentary and the radio advert. Things we had to used while creating the voiceover was radio technologies such as a mic, audio control switch board which was used to control the voice volume that was coming through from the mic. We also used a USB to be able to transfer the finished voiceover somewhere we could get to it so it was useable.

Filming all the footage from the documentary was done using two camera’s, a Sony HXR MC2000E video camera and we also used a smaller video camera. The video camera Sony HXR MC2000E was used for interviews and vox pops but the small camera was used for cut away shots. For interviews we used a clip mic which was attached to the persons clothing near to their mouth. After filming the footage we had to put the footage on the Microsoft Windows 7 computer to do this we used a USB cable which connected the video camera to the computer. Then we copied the footage onto our computer space which was easy to access and use on the editing software Adobe Premier pro CS5. 

We’ve used many computer technologies like Windows 7, Adobe Photoshop, Youtube, Firefox with add ons and Adobe Premier pro CS5. All these helped to create the documentary in many ways. Windows 7 was used as the main software for the computer we used, this was things like internet explorer and word ect. We then used Adobe Photoshop to create our newspaper advert, not only did we use Adobe Photoshop for this we also used it for the interview graphics that came up to tell the audience the interviewee’s name. Youtube was used to get archive footage from which we did using Firefox add ons which on of the add ons was a video down loader. Adobe Premier pro CS5 was used to create our documentary and radio advert, we used the software to edit footage and create footage. 

We learnt many things on Adobe Premier pro CS5 like how to fill left or fill right. This is done when we used the clip mic because the footage comes thorough so that it is mono not stereo so it can only be heared through one speaker/headphone which is the right so we use the audio effects in stereo and sliding fill left onto the audio clip.

 




 We also used speed/duration to slow or quicken clips up depending on how we want them. To do this we right click on the video on the timeline and chose speed/duration. Here is an example of how to slow a clip down. Before the original percentage was 100% but changing it to 50% slows the clip down half way.

Before creating the documentary we did a lot of research to give us idea’s. We started of by looking at real documentaries and analyzing them, we did this so that we knew what the codes and conventions of a normal documentary was like, this made it easier for us when it came to putting our documentary together because we knew what sort of things we needed to do. 

Another part of research we did was questionnaires because as soon as we knew what our documentary was going to be about we needed to find out what sorts of things the public do and are popular so that we knew what the best things to put in the documentary were so that the public would be more interested because they had their opinions. We asked many questions so we could get the back overall reaction to what was most popular. 

After these results we decided that “Hair disasters” would be a good subject to go further into this was because most people in the life have had at least one or two in some way and the people who are lucky enough to not have one want to know more about them because its a funny subject to come across. We used Microsoft excel to create pie charts that shown our results. 

Something we used a lot was the search engine Google, we did a lot of research to look for stories, influences and celebrity hair disasters because as part of the documentary we wanted to add parts of the documentary which was about celebrities because more and more these days the public are being influenced by them whether or not they are disasters. 

In the evaluation stages I used Microsoft Powerpoint, slideshare online and iMovie. While evaluating I used Microsoft Powerpoint as a media technology before sharing it online on slideshare before imbedding it onto blogger so it could be seen. The Powerpoint had a mixture of text and photos, the photos were used to show what I was evaluating. I also used iMovie to create a commentary of part of my evaluation which showed what I was talking about while I narrated. As well as using iMovie for that I also used it to create a "pod cast" which I just read out my answers to the evaluation question while the question was on screen.