Final Product: Documentary

Final Product: Radio Advert

Final Product: Newspaper Advert

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question 2 on Prezi

Question 3: What did you learn from your audience feedback?

Question 3: What did you learn from your audience feedback?

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

Question 4

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Audience Feedback Sheet

We gave this feedback sheet to 26 different people and we could then use this to collate our results for the evaluation.

THIS IS OUR RADIO VOICEOVER BEFORE WE EDITED THE DOCUMENTARY CLIPS AND MUSIC INTO THE TRAILER

Creating the radio trailer

THESE ARE THE STATIONS IN WHICH OUR RADIO ADVERT WILL APPEAR ON. HEART AND  SMOOTH IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE THEY BROADCAST ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

SMOOTH RADIO BROADCAST THEIR OWN DOCUMENTARIES EVERY SUNDAY FROM 1PM . THEREFORE THIS IS THE TYPE OF SHOW OUR RADIO ADVERT WOULD BE BROADCAST ON.

This is a list of the things in which we needed to edit from our documentary

This is the parental consent form for the interview with the young child.

Screenshots of editing process

Screenshots of us editing different things.

Editing interview cutaways

Editing transitions

Making the news paper advert

Making the radio trailer

Making the montage

These are photographs our of our drawings planning the newspaper advert

Filming Process

This is a picture of our video log list. It lists all of the filming we did, how long the shot was and whether or not we thought it was a good take. This was helpful as we then knew exactly what we had filmed for the editing process.

Radio Trailer Script

Are you sitting comfortably? Right then we will begin...
Catherine Cookson .. Never look away (CLIP FROM VOXPOP)

So many people love getting lost in a book but why is it that reading has become less popular for the younger generation over the past few years?

HOPE INTERVIEW CLIP: I dont really like reading...

MR MORRIS CLIP: Fire up students imagination ...

Would society be lost without books? Are computer games beginning to turn the nation's youth turning into illiterates?

Once upon a time . Wednesday 8pm on ITV1

Editing Process

This is a short clip of us editing using Premiere Pro 1.5. In this clip we are editing the interview of a young child.

Filming Interviews

These pictures are from when we filmed the interview with the teenager. The images show us setting up the video camera and tripod so that the framing was correct. Also setting it in a place where the mis-en-scene was approporiate to the interview. The other pictures are then of us recording the interview.

Ancillary Texts

CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A NEWSPAPER PRINT ADVERT:

Conventionally a newspaper advert is A4 landscape. This is so it can then be adapted to different forms of media.

The newspaper advert must include certain things about the documentary

- TIME AND DATE OF PROGRAMME
- TITLE
- CATCHING SLOGAN
- AN INTERESTING IMAGE WHICH WILL ATTRACT THE AUDIENCE

Here are some examples of print adverts

Ancillary Tasks: Radio Adverts

RADIO TRAILER TO PROMOTE YOUR DOCUMENTARY
  > Codes and conventions
  > Dual Purpose ( Cleverly done )

BBC TRAILER ON WEATHER:
 - Sound effects (Different weathers)
- John Kettley (Main BBC weatherman) Voiceover
- Female voiceover at the end about scheduling "coming soon > Channel "
- SFX would match what he is saying (Sounds like he is actually there)
- Humour in the script
- Sound Levels

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE QUEEN:
- Voiceover (man voice)
- Music bed
- Voice clips from documentary

STEPHEN FRY:
- Music bed
- Posh man voiceover (Stephen Fry talking about the subjects he will discuss)
- Animal SFX (quiet) .. sounds as if he is telling a story
- Posh woman voiceover ( Title andschedule) -  Calm/peaceful delivery

SPECIAL NEEDS PETS:
- Clip from programme
- Music bed throughout
- Alliteration
- Woman voiceover at the end
- People arguing
- Silly/Querky music bed
- Voice over is intercut with the extracts
> poses questions for the audience & intrigues them
> scheduling is always at the end

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY:
- guitar music bed
- cannot understand peoples voices/accents
- different voices are put together to tell a story


CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF A DOCUMENTARY RADIO TRAILER
- Extracts from the programme
- voiceover intercut throughout
- trailer should intrique the audience - make them want to know more
- must have scheduling information at the end
TITLE - DAY - TIME - CHANNEL
- must contain a music bed where appropriate
- 30 to 40 seconds long
- must include a slogan

Filming Interviews

Interview with Lucy Christopher

Conducting Research

This picture is from when we visited the local library to gain research from the head librarian.

Research and Planning: Storyboarding

Research

Research from the guardian about libraries and their importance to the public.

These are pictures of youtube videos we looked at in order to gain research

Conducting Interviews

These are images of us filming an interview. After filming this interview we decided to re-film it in a different location as it was in an open space the sound was distorted and there was too much distracting background noise. The framing of the interview also wasnt very good.

Research and Planning

This is some research in which we conducted when trying to find various people to interview.

Formal Proposal

Ideas for new title brainstorm

Ideas for documentary title on Prezi

Interview Questions

Young Child:

1) Tell me about your favourite book?
2) Do you like to read and why?
3) Tell me about the amount you read in school
4) What do you like about reading?
5) Do you prefer to read to yourself or have a parent read for you and why?
6) Is reading something you find hard? Why?
7) Tell me about how often you read
8) If you could write a book, what would you write about and why?

Interview with author:

1)What was your inspiration to become an author??
2)What is your favourite think about writting books?
3)Do you feel your books make an impact on you readers?
4)Do you feel that reading is less popular from when you began writting? How?
5)Do you remember the first book you read? What was it?
6)What age did you start writting?
7)What motivated you to start writing?
8)How did you learn to read?
9)What is your favourite book?

Running Order

Research and Planning

 Questionnaire Results

How old are you?

Our questionnaire could be percieved as biast as most of the age range are between 16 and 20.

What is your favourite song?

This question was asked to give us more of an idea of what songs to include in the documentary.



 Do you prefer films or books ?

This supports our documentary as we are trying to show that films are much more popular than books.

 What do you do in your spare time?

 Gender?

This shows that are questionnaire is slightly biast as twice as many females answered than males.



 What is your occupation?

This gives us an insight into what backgrounds the people who answered our survey are from.

 Do you think the standard of english decreased due to people reading less?

This also backs up the message of our documentary that the decrease in reading has led to a decrease in the standard of english.



What do you associate with reading?

This was asked to try and discover the reason why people do not read as much.

When did you last buy a book ?

This data supports our documentary, that proves people do not read as much as they used to.



 Why do you think books have become less popular?

This question tries to discover why books have become less popular which adds to the subject of our documentary.

 When do you usually watch television?

This question was to help us with our scheduling, deciding what day to have our documentary on.



 Do you read?

Another question to reinforce the subject of our documentary.

 Do you prefer electronic or paper books and why ?

This question was asked to discover whether technology has had an impact on books.

 What time of day do you usually watch television?

This again was to help with our TV scheduling.

What is your favourite colour?



This question was to help us when choosing what colour we could use for graphics in our documentary.