Final Products

Our Final products:

The Documentary:



The Newspaper Advert:


The Radio Advert:

Evaluation

Evaluation:
Q1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms an conventions of real media products?

Voiced over Commentary:




Comparison of Documentaries that are Real and My Documentary:

We have clearly followed the codes and conventions as the Interviewee here is looking directly at the interviewer and not at the camera, the framing on our interviews, follow the rule of thirds as the interviewee's eye lines is roughly around a 3rd of the way down the frame, Shown also compared with the Simpson's 20th anniversary Documentary.

During the interview with the Tattoo Artist we ensured that the mise en scene in the background related to her being a Tatooist, here we see cleaning equipment followed along by other equipment in which she uses as a tattooist, we used this setting as we want the audience to know that she is a real tattooist and that it creates an authentic projection. This is in comparison with the Simpson's 20th anniversary Documentary, as Marge's voice actress is placed next to her image in The Simpsons.





In comparison with the Jaws Documentary, Our Archive Footage related to the dialogue that was being said by the interviewee, we used the cutaway of Jesse Metcalfe as he is a celebrity who is describing a tattoo that he would like to get, and this reflects what the tattoo artist is talking about, "How celebrities influence people to get a tattoo".

Comparison of the Newspaper Advert:

A Real Channel 4 Documentary


My Newspaper Advert for my Documentary

We have clearly followed the forms of a newspaper advert, we have a simple image like the Newspaper artical which was created for an actual Channel 4 documentary, It is strong image that instantly is recognisable for the type of documentary it is, Our Advert also has the channel 4 logo so it shows the audience where the documentary is on, also stating the time and date it is on. We have a slogan on our advert which is usually a convention, but the orginal Channel 4 documentary doesnt have one, showing they went against the conventions of a newspaper advert.

My Radio advert, has a music bed aswell as the Documentary for the history channel, this is showing how that It is conforming with the rules of a radio advert.

Q2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Question Two Answered by Recording of Voice:

The Products together:

The Font on Indelible Art here, is similar to the font that we used for our documentary Title.

Both of the Ancillary texts have the slogan "Think Ink", we used it in both because slogans can help audience relate the Newspaper Advert and also the Radio Advert together. Also the colour scheme is blue because our research told us that blue was a well liked colour from our questionaires that we gave out to people. We think that our products come as a package because of the well thought out ethos we wanted to carry out, always relating the projects together.

It is important that the Ancillary texts related to the main product as they are a promotion to the documentary and are needed to gain the audience attention, to get the audience attention we used bits of the documentary in the Radio advert, to give them a glance of what the documentary will be about, we used a image of a girl with a tattoo because we wanted to ensure that it related to the documentary and to the theme of tattoo's.

Q3) What have you learned from your audience feedback




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

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

http://prezi.com/dez_edsnhqkf/q4how-did-you-use-media-technologies-in-the-construction-and-research-planning-and-evaluation-stages/

AS Task - Codes & Conventions

Typical Conventions of Documentaries

• A medium shot, medium close up or close up is generally used when filming an interview.

Below is an example of this in The Simpsons 20th anniversary show.

It is also used in the Documentary of In The Teeth Of Jaws:

Also in these shots they consist of Looking space, this means that the Interviewee is framed more to one side of the camera shot than a more onlooking shot.

Framing follows the rule of thirds, as the eyeline is roughly a third of the way down the frame.

• The Interviewee looks directly at the interviewer and not into the camera

Positioning of interviewer is therefore important: If the Interviewee is on the right side of the frame then the Interviewer should be positioned on the left side of the camera and vise versa.

Mise-en-scene: background reinforces the content of the interview or is revevant to the intervieww, providing information about them in terms of occupation or personal environment.

Interviews never filmed with a light source behind them i.e. in front of a window or with the sund behind them; the light is always infront of them

• Questions are edited out

• Cutaways are edited into interviews for two reasons:

To break up interviews and illustrate what the interviewee is talking about and to avoid jump cuts when questions are edited out.










Cutaways are either:

Archive material, or suggested by something days in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview

AS Task - Planning Process

Brainstorming ideas for documentary

Stock footage of people on mobile phones - At least 10
Consider the big phone poster in the IT corridor
Find statistics - Phone sales, ownership, average age
Image sequences of mobiles with commentary
Talk about convergence - Mobiles are also cameras, Internet browsers
Consider going to golden square for information on current mobiles
Featured - Texting and speed
Possible interviewees - Laura's friends
Phone themed music and music videos


Final decisions
Could not find big phone poster
Golden square required filming permission
Final interviewee - Laura D'velle typical student who uses their phone daily
Extracted phone music from YouTube
Statistics graphics to be used as cut-aways
More cut aways filmed around college
Found 'Evolution of mobiles' sequence

We wanted to create a Documentary around a Typical teenage mobile user, as we would like to direct this documentary to a younger audience for them to relate to, the images we have captured are quirky and relate to the subject well, After we shot our scenes we regrettably didn't use the blue screen in order to change the background of the interviewee, this would of been a better idea as we could of put the subject the interviewee was talking about behind.

AS Task - Editing Process

For the editing process we used Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. We captured the video from the
digital video cassettes we used to film. We proceeded to edit out the interviewers questions leaving only the interviewee answering in full sentences. We also captured the cut aways we had filmed earlier to use in between the interviewees answers to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. We gathered relevantclips and images from exterior sources to use as well. Mainly statistics and graphs that wenarrated over. We also used copyright free music to use as a bed. As well as chart hits that fitted with the theme of telephones. The cutting tool was handy whilst editing because it allowed us to point out precisely where we wanted to cut the clip that we had filmed from start to finnish for a nice finnish, also it was to cut music up as we had to find the right level of music that intergrates then into the speaking parts of the documentary.

AS Task - Filming Process

For the filming process we used the Media department's Canon XM2s. We used digital video cassettes to record as these can be easily captured onto suitable software later on that was Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.
During filming we made notes to film from the traditional angle for interviews, we looked at two Documentary's in order to get an idea of the codes and conventions that an Interview must have to be effective. We gained alot of ideas from the two documentary's, we learnt that The subject sits parallel to the interviewer, with the camera off around 45 degrees to the subject. After we had the questions and answers recorded we went out to record cut aways, to use in between the interviewee's answers during editing. An example of this is below.

AS Task - Evaluation