Final Productions

Evaluation

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

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

Question 2 from liamrig95

Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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

Question 4 from liamrig95

Audience Feedback

Newspaper Advertisement Production

Screenshots from liamrig95

 

Drafting Newspaper

 

Print Advert Analysis

Codes and Conventions of Newspaper Advertisements

Codes and conventions of newspaper advertisements from liamrig95

Recording and Editing Radio trailer

 

 

Scripting Radio Trailer

Radio Ad:-

In the U.K alone, an estimated 10 million people suffer from a phobia that seriously effects their lives

(4 Vox Pops)

The theory of phobia’s dates back to the roman era and we still know surprisingly little about them.

How do we develop them?

How do people react to them?

What can we do to cure a phobia?

Join us on Thursday at 9 o’clock.

Channel 4.

In the Face of Fear.

Radio Advert Analysis

Special Needs Pets:

• Vox pops - This radio advert contains vox pops that are most likely included in the actual documentary. These vox pops direct the advert at the audience as it shows various peoples opinions and debates about the subject discussed. This intrigues listeners into wanting to have their say in the debate as well and therefore they are more interested and more likely to watch the documentary.

• Music Bed - A light upbeat music bed can be heard in the advertisement. This creates an informal tone to the advert and gives the advert emotion. By using a catchy and subtle music bed people are more likely to remember and be interested in the documentary.

• Voiceover - A voiceover is used in the advert to give the audience some information about what the documentary discusses. A friendly, neutral voice attracts a wider range of audience by not sticking to one side of the argument. The voiceover also tells the audience the name of the documentary and the time it is scheduled to broadcast, as well as what channel the documentary will be on. 

• Voiceover - There are two voiceovers in this advert. The first voiceover introduces the advert by acting out a weather forecast for the BBC. This is interesting for the audience to listen to as the weather is relevant to near enough everyone and therefore engages the majority of the audience. The second voiceover conveys the channel name as well as the documentary name and slogan. This gives the audience little information about the documentary, however they are told the documentary is coming soon to the desired channel therefore making the audience aware of the upcoming product.

• Sound Effects - There are sound effects of typical bad british weather such as rain and heavy wind. This gives the advert a realistic weather broadcast feel and therefore makes the advert formal. The sound effects are also relevant to the topic of the documentary as it is about weather. It is interesting for the audience to hear the sounds of bad british weather and makes the audience want to know more about the documentary and the weather in britain.

Codes and Conventions of Radio Trailer

Codes and conventions of a radio advertisements from liamrig95

Scripting Voiceover

Voiceover:-

In the U.K alone over 10 million people suffer from phobias that seriously affect their lives. These can range from dogs to heights. But how do these phobias come about in people? What causes people to have such a deep set fear of irrational things? Join us as we take a take a look in the face of fear and find out.

The most common belief is that phobias are caused by personal experiences and cause you to fear anything from heights to feet to personal hygiene.  But it’s not as common knowledge what happens when people come face to face with their fear and how it affects their lives

Claustrophobia is one of the most common phobias in the world, with 10% of people suffering from it in the U.K alone, but some people suffer from far more abstract fears.

Gillian Mckeith is a good example of some who is vulnerable to many fears.

But how would a person go about overcoming there fear, when it affects their lives so much.

Filming and Editing Diary

Edit Decision List

Logging

Risk Assesments

Planning

Psychologist Interview Questions

1.     What is a phobia?

2.     What causes someone to have a phobia?

3.     Are you born with a phobia or are they developed over time?

4.     To how much extent do you feel that a phobia can impact someone’s life?

5.     How long can a phobia last?

6.     Can phobias be treated?

7.     Compared to let’s say, 50 years ago, how much has phobia treatment improved?

8.     Is it important for people with phobias to get them treated?

9.     What is your phobia?

10.  What is the difference between a fear and a phobia?

Running Order

Research For Documentary

Research record from liamrig95

Formal Documentary Proposal

Topic:

The topic for our documentary is phobias; more specifically our documentary will focus on:

·         What phobias are

·         How they manifest in humans

·         Why phobias are developed

·         Abnormal phobias

·         How humans are affected by phobias

We feel that these topics cover all the vital discussion points when it comes to phobias and will maintain an entertaining thread throughout the documentary, whilst covering everything that is needed to be covered in the time slot provided.

Type of Documentary:

This documentary will be a mixed documentary as it will feature interviews, voice overs and cutaways. We have chosen for the type of our documentary to be mixed as it is the most suitable style for the delicacy of the subject. We will also use a narrator to state information to the audience and advance the narrative.

Style of Documentary:

Our documentary will be formal as the topic of the documentary is sensitive and using an informal will give less impact of the points discussed in the documentary. Using an informal style may come across as showing the subjects at hand as light hearted and not so serious therefore it may cause some offence to viewers. By using a formal documentary style we are ensuring that all points being made appear to be valid and legitimate and will appear to be serious

Channel and Scheduling:

We have chosen to schedule our documentary at 9:00pm on channel 4. This is because this time would be most suitable to watch a documentary about phobias. Thursday is a popular night to stay in and watch TV as people will most likely be waiting for the weekend. 9:00pm is our chosen time as it is a common time for documentaries to be played. This is placed in between George Clarke’s amazing spaces at 8:00 and up all night: Britain on call. As well as this, children usually go to bed around 8:00pm leaving our target audience (18-45) to watch what they want on TV. The documentary is placed at a time when most people watching will be able to understand what it is that they are viewing and the topics being discussed.

Target Audience:

Our Target audience is mainly 18-45 year olds of both genders. This age group has been selected as it is broad and contains people mature enough to empathise and talk about their phobias. This target audience are the age range that would tend to watch Channel 4 and focus on informative documentaries as it may help them with their personal lives. This age range is more likely to be affected by phobia’s and relate to what is being said within the documentary, as opposed to someone under 18 who may not have the maturity to understand fully what is being said and portrayed in the documentary

Primary Research Needed:

To get a better understanding of our target audience we handed out questionnaires to people that fall in to our target audience and this acted as part of our primary research as it allowed us to gain a better understanding of our target audience. It gave us insights into the type of music they listen to, the type of television they watch and their views on phobias. The interviews that take place will also act as primary research as they will provide first hand views on phobias and the topics related to it.

Secondary Research Needed:

In order to gain statistics and other figures similar to that we will use the internet and books that will provide us with this information.

Brainstorm of Content For Documenatry

Target Audience Research

Initial Plans

Brainstorming

Codes and Conventions of documentaries

Codes and Conventions of Documentaries

⦁ Documentaries have to be fully truthful and non bias, this is because they are from a neutral perspective         and can't favor any side of the story.
⦁ Documentaries are based on reality
⦁ Needs evidence to back up points
⦁ Reconstructions need to be as close to the real thing as possible
⦁ A documentary always uses either a narrator or a presenter

Types of Documentaries

Observation means that the audience feel almost as if they actually viewed the events occurred within the documentary.

Interviews are extremely common in documentaries and often follow the rule of thirds, meaning that the interviewee is framed on one side of the camera, as if the frame was split into thirds.

When the audience aren't able to see the original footage of an event for various reasons, therefore a reconstruction is put in place making it viewable to the audience, this is called Dramatisation.

Mise En Scene is used to add excitement and emotion to the documentary and should always be relevant to the discussed topic.

When the commentary of the documentary and the description of the documentary are used together it is called the exposition.

The Devil Made Me Do it - Analysis

The Sword Maker - Analysis

Moonshine - Artists After Dark - Analysis

Moonshine analysis from liamrig95

Rock and Roll Exposed - Analysis

Rock and roll exposed from liamrig95

That Thing - Analysis

The Music Biz - Meatloaf - Analysis

Meat loaf analysis from liamrig95

A2 Documentary Notes

Docu notes from liamrig95

AS Media Documentary Notes

This post should contain notes on documentaries from the first year of media, however i chose to drop AS media after the first year to pick up a level 3 technical media course. Therefore upon returning to my second year of media i was not in the class that had made notes for documentaries in their first year.