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Monday 25 April 2011

Evaluation part 4

Q4 – How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?






Firstly we used the internet and TV to research other similar news programmes and stories to compare how we could make our programme and how we wanted it to look like in the finished product. Looking at how a news programme is run and the various styles different shows have, weather local or national news, the audience they are aimed at and the different looks of the news shows. We set up a blog on http://www.blogger.com/ and by doing so, it showed the planning stages of our film and what we had to do to get to the finished news programme. On the blog we have put on story boards, photo story boards, scripts, shooting scripts, ideas of location and styles of show we can produce. We used the internet and websites such as BBC news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/and sky news http://www.skysports.com/ to look at how they made a news programme. With the planning of the programme we used digital cameras to take photos to put on the blog of the location photos, prop and costume photos.




In the construction process of the news programme we used video cameras to film the show, using a Sony HDV 1000 and tripod also used audio microphones to make sound clips for the voice over of the presenters using a zoom recoder. In the editing process we used a Apple Mac computer and final cut pro software to upload and edit our recordings to make the final product. We had used more advanced editing techniques than previously used making our first year film. For the music in our news programme we had used a track from a CD and iTunes to load onto final cut pro to edit onto the film. For our news logo we used adobe Photoshop software,
There were a few difficulties in the production of our news programme, for example we had issues with white balancing the video camera to get the best picture quality possible with the combination of indoor and natural lighting. There was also problems with sound, filming outdoor scenes it sometimes sounded muffled and distorted, we overcome this by positioning the microphone at the correct distance from the reporters mouth, some scenes had to be re-shot but all sounded right afterwards. Finally we had previously learnt to edit on different software than final cut pro so when we first started editing this film we had to be taught a few different things so that we could make our news programme the best it could be.

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