During my studies of media I have used a variety of software to aid me in creating film and audio.
After we were given our brief we chose to create the first 5 minutes of a news programme. We knew we first had to some research on other news programmes to see what style of camera shots they used and to get a general feel of what a news programme should look like. Our first method of research was to browse the Internet and watch online videos to get the knowledge and data we needed to start our project. We used Apple iMac computers to access the Internet and store the data and research we had found. Our second method of research was asking our target audience what they would like in to see in a news programme, what time they usually would watch news and other general questions to give us a an idea of what we would like to achieve in our production. We used a hand held camera to film their answers and uploaded them on to our blog.
In order to show and store all the research and data we used blogger.com. Blogger.com is a website we used in our AS year also, on this website we were able to create posts and keep updating our progress. Having access to the Internet and blogger.com was a huge help with our project, it allowed us to organise our project and significantly helped with time management, we found our work easy to access and organised. We also used blogger.com to upload out script, shooting script and photo story bored, by uploading these we knew what shots we had to do in which order and which location.
Another major website we used was youtube, youtube was greatly helpful for research, we were able to embed videos onto our blog for examples and ideas. A Sony HDV 1000 was our camera of choice, using a high definition camera gave us good quality images for our news programme. It also gave us a crsip finish to our title sequences, we were able to get the shots we originally wanted, it was far better than the camera we had previously used, it maximised our potential for creating a good quality news programme, we were also able to connect a microphone on a lead and attach this to the camera which gave us better audio when interviewing or reporting on a story.
We recorded our footage on to a tape, we then were able to convert the footage from the tape onto the iMac's by using a Sony GIV D1000
this made it very easy to transfer footage. Once the footage was on the iMac we were able to edit and pick the bits we wanted to use thanks to Final Cut. Final Cut is an editting software installed on the iMac's. Final cut made it wasy to organise the footage and allowed us to insert transitions to our work, wire frame and smooth out sounds. Final cut made our news programme appear to be much more professional.
Finally we created a radio trailer, we used the garageband software to develop this and mix noises and sounds together to get a construction site atmosphere. We recorded the sounds on a zoom recorder and then uploaded them to the iMac and used garageband to edit it all together.
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