Documentary

Here is my A2 documentary.

Radio Advert

Here is my radio advert.

Print Advert

This is the original image we used for our poster, originally we wanted a small porcelain clown as the main focus in the advert, however we decided we should use something that isn't deemed as scary so we decided upon the teddy bear, and then enhanced the shadow in photo shop to make it look as though the teddy itself was harbouring a far more sinister interior and contrasted the soft and cuddly exterior.





This is the draft of our Poster Advert and hopefully it will end up looking like this with little or no change to it, it will be edited and finished off in photo shop.





This is the finished version of our print Advert, the only change is the location of the written information is now below the bear instead of to the side of the bear.

Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? on Prezi

Here is my answer to question one of my evaluation.

Question 2

Media Question 2

Question 3

What  have you learned from your audience feedback?



This is my audience feedback for my documentary, i received mixed reviews
My answer to question three of my evaluation

Question 4

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

Copyright Issues

Here is an e-mail we sent to the people who own the music ands the archive footage shown as we didn't want to infringe on the copyright issues.

Dear_______________,
                                         I am writing to you to ask for copyright permission for a small segment of your footage/music piece. Please may we use it in our documentary? As this is only going to be viewed by on exam bored and won't gain any profits, Thank you
                                                                                From Priestley college students.

Logging Sheets

Reconstruction Storyboard

Here is the storyboard for the reconstruction we have in our documentary.

Edit Descisions List

Here is the Editing list of descisions we made for our documentary.

Single Shot Frames

These are our single shot frames.

Codes and Conventions of Radio Adverts

The codes and conventions of a radio advert are as follows

• vox pops
• a voice over telling you facts and when the show is on
• Bits of interviews to give the audience an idea of what the documentary is about
• a music bed to add to the atmoshpere of the advert

Audience feedback

Question 1:
Out of the ten people we asked who had watched our blog seven of them agreed that the framing was good and the inter cutting was good on most scenes but we could have improved on some interviews and on some of the cutaways, 2 of the people asked said that the framing was average at best and could have been improved greatly while the last person though that both the framing and cutaways was incredibly poor.

Question 2:
out of the ten people we asked eight of them said the music suited the documentary perfectly, as it added an eerie feeling which they though was perfect for a documentary about phobias, however they agreed the music should have been a little bit louder as it was hard to hear on some parts of the documentary, the remaining two thought the music chosen wasn't bad but it could have been something better.

Question 3:
Out of the ten people asked five of them all said the editing wasn't bad, as they didn't see any jumps in the interviews and most of it seemed to flow, three of them answered with the editing was poor and cutaways poorly placed and didn't see the relevance of half the things in the documentary and that it hardly flowed, the remaining two stated that the editing was of a very good quality and liked how no jumps were seen in the interviews and both agreed it flowed well.

Question 4:
Out of the ten people asked six of them agreed that they found the documentary interesting and felt they had learnt something new after watching it, the other four had put no.

Question 5:
Out of the ten people asked four of them had put 5/10, one of them had put 6/10, three of them had put 7/10 and two of them had put 4/10.

Question 6:
Out of the ten people asked three of them had put that the Blue screen was out weakest element, five of them had put cutaways and two of them had put Music.

Question 7:
Out of the ten people asked four of them had put that interviews was the strongest element of our documentary, three of them put music, one of them had put blue screen and the last one had put titles.

Question 8:
Out of the ten people asked eight of them had put yes it does relate to the documentary and the other two had put no.

Question 9:
Out of the ten people asked seven of them had put that the poster does relate to the documentary and the other three had put no.

Question 10:
Out of the ten people asked six of them said the voice didn't engage them in the adverts or the documentary as it wasn't very audible and would have preferred if it was of a better audio quality, the other four said they enjoyed the voice over but would have liked it to have been in the documentary a bit more.

Editing Diary

September:

• Captured footage we'd filmed and imported the footage to edit.
• cut the footage up ready to be put on the time line.

November:

• Imported more footage we'd filmed and cut it up.
• Placed footage on the time line in order it is to be shown in.
• Started to get archive footage needed and what type of music would fit with the theme of our documentary.
• Starting timing opening sequence for documentary, falling short and needed one more person for the opening.
• Opening sequence nearly finished as we added footage of a giant centipede.
• Edited music to switch from a nice slow song to a heavy metal piece.
• Imported and cut more footage and placed it on the time line E.G interview with Sue.
• Finished opening sequence and added the last person to the intro, finished off timing the intro to the beat of the music.
• Imported another interview and cut it up, placed it on the time line.
• Put a piece of music on, edited it to make it shorter and made it fade in and out.

December:

• Put the titles of the people we interviewed on the documentary to introduce who the speakers where.
• Placed archive footage of roller coaster as cutaway

January:

• Placed and edited last interview with the dog attack victim and reconstruction on.
• Edited reconstruction to make it blurry, red and slowed it down.
• Finished added music and edited it to fit.
• Placed voice over on time line and bade it louder.
• Placed cutaways on the interviews and made them dissolve in and out.
• Added title of our documentary.
• Redid dog attack victim interview and placed that in.
• Lowered music volume to enable the voice over to be heard.
• Added pulsing effect to title.
• Sorted the last of the vox pops out.

Screenshots

Scripted Radio Advert

Short music intro

V.O: approximately 4-5% of the U.K has  one or more clinically significant phobias.

Vox pops for 4 seconds

V.O: there are phobias of open spaces such as agoraphobia which effect at least 3 million people in the U.k alone

Clips from sues interview.

V.O: Find out more on Monday, Channel 4 at 8 PM

Scripted Voice Over

V.O: Everybody has something there scared of.

Vox-pops play

V.O: But what causes a phobia to develop

Interview with Sue.

V.O: It’s evident that phobias effect everyone, and that the phobias we can suffer from can range from the most commonly heard ones, such as arachnophobia-the fear of spiders or Aichmophobia-the fear of needles to odd and unusual phobias such as Ecophobia the fear of home.

Interview with Debbie.

V.O: Approximately 4-5% of the U.K has, one or more clinically significant phobias. But is it possible to be araid of something that doesn’t pose a logical threat.

Interview with Nat, followed by another interview with Debbie.

V.O: But can a phobia stop us from leaving our house.

Interview with the dog attack victim.

V.O: is it possible to be scared of things that don’t even exist such as monsters in films or video games?

Codes and Conventions of print adverts

These are adverts for the same show on Channel 4, however we can clearly see that the rule of thirds has been used in both of them, in the upper advert the young girl is mostly centred on the right hand side of the advert and on the bottom advert the boy is centred mainly on the left hand side. Both adverts have the Channel 4 logo on the right hand side, in the same font and both are the same size, both adverts have the information in the white border in black writing to make it stand out more to the audience. Also in the right corner at the bottom is the channel 4 website address, in a very small font as this is the least important information. the backgrounds are also in a low colour key and the subject matter is simple and not to elaborate for the audience to focus on.