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

In the construction of our Radio drama during the process of constructing, research, planning and evaluation stages we used a number of media technologies to help make sure our radio drama was as effective and convincing as possible.

Radio recording studio

When recording our script we used the college Radio studio of which consisted on many technologies where we recorded our piece onto the soundtrack pro programme. In the radio studio we used microphones and headphones allowing us to sit on serparate sides of the studio and be able to here eachother through the connections of the microphones and headphones. The studio also involves a mix desk which allowed us to slightly adjust the sounds again making our drama run smoothly.

Sound Track Pro

Sound Track Pro was very inportant technologie used within the process of constructing our radio drama. We used this programme to record our drama firstly directly onto from the radio studio. We then used sound track pro to edit our Radio drama , the ways in which we did this is by cutting our recording and placing pieces of our orginal recording together in order for the piece to run smoothly. We used many sound effects e.g. We used the sound effect 'swimming pool' although we dont have a swimming pool scene we decided this particular sound sounded very effective to have as the background sound in the bar scene. Within our piece and we gathered most of these from the sound track pro sound effect gallery we did this by taking the sounds from the gallery and copying them onto our radio drama recording already on a document on sound track pro. we then used the tools available within the program to adjust each sound to the correct side and place them in the correct posistions to create a overall more dramatic and convincing effect.

Digital Camera

We used a digital camera prior to the creation of our Newpaper poster articles and our double page radio listing spread. We used the camera to take a number of images. The images we took were of four indiviuals being two females and two males. We decided to do as they were the main characters expressed in our Drama.

Here are a couple of the original photo's taken. We took pictures of the two couples serperate before finally deciding to create an image of all four together. In the final photo you can see that there is a space between each set of two characters this was to indicate the seperation present within our radio drama. You can also see that the girl on the left is Roxy and she has a inferior facial expression to show she is scared, the male then is comfting her. On the opposite side we have the female with a more confident expression and the touch of her hand is showing that she still cares of the male Max no matter what she has heard. Max then has is arms crossed to some what show a arrogant expression.

Photoshop
After taking our photo's with the digital camera i decided to use the program photoshop to edit my choosen photograph for my newspaper article, The editing i did in this program was changing the photo from the original format to black and white. I did this as i thought it made the poster look for effective and eye catching when placed with the fonts i created in another program In desgin

In design

I used the In design to both create my newspaper poster and the double page radio times listings, the way i used In design is to firstly with my Poster where i used In design to create the fonts i wanted to used on my editing image in photoshop. I found Indesign the best programme to use for this due to offering a large variety of fonts with the use of swatches to create individual colours and gradients. Secondly i used In design to design and create my double page radio listing spread, again In design programme was the best one to use and you can mark out our page and set up your bleeds to the correct size to make my pages look neat and some what follow the conventions of a original radio listings.

Internet

Finally i used the internet throughout the whole entire process of the construction , planning , research and evaluation. I used the internet firstly to research into our decided topic choice being 'rape'. We needed to research this so when we came to acting out the scenes of our piece we could try to relate to the character as much as possible in order to make the drama effective. i also used the internet to search for various sounds that could possibly be used in our radio drama and finally i used the internet to research things e.g. previous radio dramas and also listening to them, the history of radio drama to help me understand it into more detail.