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

2. In the planning stages , to create the formal proposals we used simple pen and paper to plan and decide about
our documentary. We made mind maps, proposals, a running order and so on then used blogger.com to record
our progress as we went along.
After we had decided on the topic of tattoos as we thought this was an interesting choice and would be quite fun
to look into and film. As a group we decided on locations and where and what we could and needed to film. This
involved more mind maps and research into tattoo studios where we could have permission to film and who we
could film/interview with or about tattoos.

3. All of our filming was done with one camera to film it all just shot at
different examples, except for when we first interviewed Liam (above)
we used two of the Sony HXR cameras so that we could view him from
either side, one also being more zoomed in and focusing on the left
side of his face. We Also used one of the cameras hand held and
recoded Liam’s hand actions over his shoulder as he was talking about
the design of his tattoo on the paper.

4. We decided our documentary would work
best with some narration as this would help
to lead it along and give it more of a focus
than it would have had without one.
So after choosing which voices we would use,
we set up in a quiet area, attached the clip
microphone and began to record.
We simply had to separate the different parts
of the narration and using Adobe Premiere,
we were able to do so and then fit them in
accordingly to various parts of our radio
sequence and documentary sequence.
To document the questions for the narration
and to create the questionnaire we used
Microsoft Word then onto blogger.

5. We rang up many tattoo parlours in search of permission to film, eventually finding ‘Dark Arts’, this was a good
choice as we also had a friend who’s brother owned the studio. They kindly allowed us to come in and
interview and film the studio and the artists whilst they were at work.
These two shots show how we used just one Sony HXR camera but were able to still film from different angles.
We used the tripod and the camera to set up the first shot which was a simple rule of thirds shot which also
abided by the mise en scene.

6. Google images allowed us to find the images we used for
the rest of our archive. We found interesting and high
quality images to use for our documentary which we could
easily put into premiere then using cross dissolve ease them
into the next part of the documentary.
A web based feature that we used a lot was YouTube. This was the source of all of our archive footage and also
where we got our music for the documentary and radio ad.
To bring the music or YouTube videos off of YouTube and into premiere, we had to use Firefox and plug ins so that
we could easily download the videos and then use them.

7. The image for the poster was taken as a still
shot on the Sony HXR. We liked this image
as it is simple and the writing of the
documentary’s name on the
Firstly, we used the shape tool to create a
black rectangle which covered the image
then used layer mask and reveal all, then
used the white brush tool create the
gradient black to transparent. We chose to
do this as it makes the person in the image
stand out.
We then got the channel 4 logo and used
Then to create the title and the tag line we firstly found a the magic wand tool to delete the extra
font we liked and what we thought would fit in with the style areas/background that we didn’t need.
of the poster and then typed up what we needed to. Next we We then just used control and alt to
used the rectangle shape tool in white to create the blocks resize the logo.
behind the writing.
Overall, we were happy with the final outcome of our poster as it represented what
the documentary was about and it worked as we incorporated the theme with the
name of the documentary.

8. Adobe Premiere
We used Premiere to keep and edit all of our
documentary and radio advert. The footage we
took we simply out into a section and then
would drag certain clips into the first window
and then use the tools to cut and select
sections which we could then place into the
timeline sequence at the bottom. The actual
video footage is on the sequence at the top and
the sound is parallel to this but further down
the sequence in the sound part.
When editing the sound so that it fitted in
and out of the various other pieces of footage
in the documentary, each audio had its own
level so that we could use level points to
increase and decrease the sound at certain
points along the audio piece. This level could
be changed all the way along the piece of
sound. The transitions between clips were needed most of the time to keep it
flowing. We mostly used cross dissolve or dip/fade to white. However at other
When using the YouTube videos for the music to points, like in the opening sequence/montage, we just placed the clips next to
out into the sequence, we would simple have to each other so they just quickly changed which was a great effect for the
ungroup the footage and the sound then delete montage.
the footage so that we just had the sound that
Fill left was used on a sound clip so that it could be made into stereo which
we needed.
would allow for it to be heard fully in both speakers/sides of headphones.
The archive footage had to be a total of 30
seconds so we had to make sure we kept to this We learnt a lot from the using premiere, it was
and kept check of it and also the final amount
of the documentary time. hard to start at first but once we got used to
using it and the tools we were able to successfully
create our work.