FInal newspaper advert.

Final production Radio Trailer.

This is our radio trailer and our newspaper advert over it. This is what we uploaded to youtube to get audience feedback.


This is our original radio advert.

Final production documentary.

Evaluations.

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


Our documentary followed the codees and conventions of a documentary. For example, most professional documentaries have many interviews within it. We followed codes and conventions of the interviews by keeping the interviewee on the opposite side to the interviewer, the eye line is a third of the way down the screen, Interviewees filmed in medium shot, medium close up or close up, all of the questions that the interviewee was asked where cut out, the background of the interview always relates to the content of the interview or is related to the interviewee too give the audience more information about the occipation or personal enviroment and the interviewee never looks dierctly into the camera.

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

Question 2. on Prezi

3.What have you learned from your audience feedback?


We placed our Documenatry, radio trailer and newspaper advert on http://www.youtube.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/. We did this so we could get audience feedback.

We also produced a questionnaire for our classmate to fill out after they had watched out documentary. This ment that we could get more feedback and better feedback because they had done it themselves so they knew what to look for within our documentary and radio advert. Here are the results that we collaborated after people had taken the questionnaires.

www.slideshare.net/documentary/awamozza11non-sense



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

 I used a range of different media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages. In the research, I used the internet to get research on the topic of my documentary, I also used www.youtube.com to find extracts of documentaries that we analysed. Once analysed I used www.blogger.com to display the analysis of the documentaries. I used Microsoft word to produce a questionnaire and Microsoft excel to put the results into bar charts. Then I used a voice recorder to record the outcomes. I also used blogger.com to show my progress day by day of all the work that I produced. As we filmed our interviews we had to construct the mise-en-scene by having things that relate to what the person is talking about. I also followed the codes and conventions of an interview by framing the interviewee to the left of the shot and their eye line a 1/3 of the way down the screen.

To construct our documentary we had to use a range of different materials. To film the materials that we needed for my documentary we needed to use a DV camera, Tripod, and a microphone. These were all used to film the interviews, voxpops, stock footage, cutaways and the opening titles. We recorded Margaret Ross’s interview but once we has captured it on the computer we realised that the framing of the interviewee was wrong because the framing of the interviewee was wrong. Therefore, this meant that we had to refilm the interview to make the framing right. When we had filming and captured all of the voxpops, we had to go through all of them to see which ones had the right framing or not and to choose which ones went with what the documentary is about. I used a digital stills camera to take images as filming and editing was taking place. We did this to prove that we had done these ourselves. We needed to take images of a person for our print advert. We took numerous amounts of photos and had to choose one for out final product. We had to change the photo to make the person have no eyes. We did this on Photoshop. I tried a range of different tools to try and create a real look. For example, the clone tools, liquefier tool, blur tool, smudge tool and the paintbrush tool. After trying all of these we finally realised that the paintbrush tool was the best too use. To create the opening titles we used the stills camera.

I used Adobe Premiere the most out of all the different technologies. I used adobe premiere to edit the production, we had to use the cutting tool to cut out all the unnecessary bits of the interview such as, the questions that were asked and in the voxpops and cutaways. We also had to use the fast motions effect on some of our edits to make it faster because some of the cutaways were too long to put in but the whole of the clip was relevant to the documentary. We added graphics that say the name and occupation in the bottom left hand corner of the screen to show the audience who the interviews are. We also needed to adjust the sound levels on the music that we used because it was too loud and we needed to adjust Margaret Ross's and Penny William’s voices because they were both really quiet. I did not know how to use all of the different tools at first but when someone showed us how to use them it was really simple. We also used Adobe Premiere to produce the radio trailer to advertise the documentary. We used the radio studio to record our radio trailer. We made a script for the voiceover person to read out. Then we edited the voiceover on Adobe Premiere to take the bits out that we didn't need. We had to go back to the recording studio after we captured the first recording because we noticed that the person did not say the slogan within the first recording. Also, we used our mobile phones to take photographs of our editing progress and our recording progress.

Finally, I have used Microsoft word to produce some of the evaluation questions. Also, I have used a DV camera to take pictures of all the materials that I have used such as, DV camera, tripod, microphone, computer, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Mobile phone, Radio studio and printer. I have also used www.blogger.com to show my evaluation. Also, I have used www.facebook.com and www.youtube.com to show my documentary and my radio trailer so I could receive feedback. Then when I had collected all of the feedback I used Microsoft Excel to present it and make conclusions about them. Also, I have used a voice recorder to record audio clips of what people thought about my documentary, radio trailer and newspaper article.

Youtube grabs.

Feedback. 5th December.

To get more audence feedback I have put my Documentary, Radio trailer and Newspaper advertisement onto http://www.facebook.com/ and http://www.youtube.co.uk/. The reason why I put them on both was so i could get feedback off strangers off youtube and feedback off family and friends on facebook. Also, so i could get a different range of feedback.

Music lable. 3rd December.

For us to use the song that we wanted to we had to contact Columbia Records asking them if it was okay to use 'MGMT - Eletric Feel'.

Questionairre. 3rd December.

Audience feedback – Non-sense: what are you looking at?


1. How informative did you find our documentary? (5 being the highest)
1 2 3 4 5


2. Is there anything else you would have found beneficial to include in the documentary?
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3. Which part of the documentary did you find the most interesting?
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4. On a scale of 1 to 5 how interesting did you find the Margret Ross interview?
1 2 3 4 5


5. On a scale of 1 to 5 how interesting did you find the Penny Williams interview?
1 2 3 4 5


6. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate the sound quality of our documentary and radio trailer?
1 2 3 4 5
And why? .................................................................................................................................................


7. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate the editing quality of our documentary?
1 2 3 4 5


8. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate the continuity of our documentary?
1 2 3 4 5


9. On a scale of 1 to 5 how would you rate the camera work used in our documentary?
1 2 3 4 5


10. In your opinion do you believe that our documentary conveyed codes and conventions of professional documentaries?
YES NO
If no please specify: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….................


Newspaper advert


1. How eye catching did you find our newspaper advert as a whole?
1 2 3 4 5


2. How much does the newspaper advert portray the topic of the documentary?
1 2 3 4 5


3. How would you rate the design of the newspaper advert?
1 2 3 4 5


4. How much does the newspaper advert intrigue you?
1 2 3 4 5
Radio trailer


1. How well do you think the radio trailer flows?
1 2 3 4 5


2. How would you rate the music bed of the radio trailer?
1 2 3 4 5


3. How much does the radio trailer link to the documentary?
1 2 3 4 5


4. How would you rate the sound quality of the radio trailer?
1 2 3 4 5


5. How much does the radio trailer make you want to watch the documentary?
1 2 3 4 5

In the recording studio.

Today we recorded our radio advert in the radio studio. We gave Miss Harji (Who was going to be our voiceover) a script, they read it aloud and we recorded in onto Adobe Audition.

After we had finished recording we uploaded the clips to Adobe Premiere 1.5 and edied them to how we wanted them to be. This included changing the sound levels and placing the voxpops from our documentary into the radio trailer. To put the sound from the documentary into the radio trailer we had to unlink the audio and visual and only use the audio.
 

Radio advert script.

Here is a copy of our scrip for our radio advert which we will record in the radio studio:




Vox pop: The coast
Vox pop: The faces of the people i love
Vox pop: Blackpool
Vox pop: An autumn day
Vox pop: Dark, gray and rainy
Voice over: Does the sight of cakes make your mouth water?
Sound effect: Umm...
Voice Over: Does the sight of a spider scare you?
Sound Effect: AHH!
Voice Over: Does the sight of blood make your stomach turn?
Sound Effects: Ughh!
Voice Over: Does the sight of your favorite band get you dancing?
Sound Effects: Tapping of feet
Voice Over: Does the sight of a roller coaster get your heart racing?
Sound Effects: Heartbeat
Margret Ross (clip from documentary: "Two weeks after Christmas they told me they couldn't save the sight of the right eye"
Voice Over: Non-sense. What are you looking at? New series starting with sight. Thursday at 9 on channel 4

Codes and conventions of radio trailers.

• Includes extracts from the program.
• There is a voice over inter cut throughout .
• The trailer should intrigue the audience and make them want to find out more .
• The scheduling information is included at the end in the order of: title, day & time, channel.
• There is a music bed where appropriate.
• It is 30-40 seconds long.
• Sometimes includes a slogan.
• Sound affects are used.

Codes and conventions of a newspaper article. 29th November.

• The shape is an A4 landscape which is a versatile shape which can be scaled to fit many different sizes and can also be used as a billboard.
• There is one main image.
• The image should be striking and sum up the program.
• The text on the advert should include: the title, slogan and scheduling.
• The advert should also include the TV company logo.

Editing and scripting. 25th November.

In order to write a script for our voice over, we used the Internet to research facts on blindness which we thought would be appropriate
We had used the internet to reseach facts about being blind. It was very hard trying to find quotes about being blind but then we found this website and this quote to use as our voiceover.

Voice over:

"In the UK over 360,000 people are registered blind or visually impaired"
The exact time in which the voice over will come is at 00:53

Continuing. 23rd November.

We had to go through our documentary and check the sound levels. Which is being shown in the picture below.

However, because there was a jump between the beginning og the documentary and the end of the other we made a little gap to let the audience know that the interview was starting. Here is a photograph to show this.

Editing continued. 22nd November.

Today Charlotte,Jess and I continued to edit our documentary. Some of our editing included shortening the begining sequence by speeding up the duration. This made the documentary run more smoothly. The screen shots bellow document this editing process.

Editing sheet. 8th November.

00:00:00 – 00:30:00 Voxpops + walking (Fade at 00:25:00)
01:29:00 – 01:31:00 Voxpops + walking – “Curry” (Cut)
01:50:20 – 01:52:00 Voxpops + walking – “baby laughing” (Cut)
02:08:00 – 02:09:00 Voxpops + walking – “A wasp” (Cut)
03:14:12 – 03:16:03 Voxpops + walking – “Oh celery” (Cut)
04:02:00 – 04:05:21 Voxpops + walking – “Sewage” (Cut)
05:09:05 – 05:10:21 Voxpops + walking – “Little girl when she shouts mum” (Cut)
05:17:17 – 05:19:19 Voxpops + walking – “Dogs done a fresh one” (Cut)
15:35:04 – 15:37:21 Voxpops + walking – “Velvet + satin” (Cut)
16:05:20 – 16:07:12 Voxpops + walking – “Fresh tomatoes” (Cut)
00:39:05 – 00:49:00 Grandma’s interview good – “2 weeks after Christmas...” (On black)
01:07:00 – 01:29:00 Grandma’s interview good – “I can see a little bit” (Cut)
02:02:00 traffic cut away
02:32:00 – 03:08:15 Grandma’s interview good – “can’t read or write” (Cut)
08:46:19 – 08:53:07 audio book cut away (Joining "Audio books" and "can't read or write"
07:50:18 – 08:04:06 Grandma’s interview good – “Audio books” (Cut)
02:11:15 – 02:26:07 Grandma’s interview good – “Support and help” (Cut)
06:42:04 – 06:59:00 Grandma’s interview good – “Other senses” (Cut)
11:57:05 – 12:01:05 Knitting (Cut)
09:26:04 – 09:29:03 More Voxpops – dog sign (Cut) "Guide dogs charity plays over "dog sign"
03:29:03 – 03:44:02 More Voxpops – “Guide dogs charity” (Cut)
04:01:05 – 04:34:08 More Voxpops – “Who can get a guide dog” (Cut)
07:58:19 – 08:11:24 Guide dog
01:01:08 – 01:36:02 More Voxpops – “Training” (Cut)
10:12:09 – 10:25:07 trainer and dog

Begun editing.18th November.

Today, Jess, Charlotte and I have begun to edit our documentary on Adobe premier pro 1.5, By dragging our footage onto the time line we are able to refer to our editing sheet and cut which parts of footage we are going to use. 

Logging sheet. 8th November.

Here is a copy of our log sheet, which documents all of the footage we have taken and how long it is. 

3rd November.

Today Charlotte, Jess and I used a SLR camera to photograph some of the footage we need for our beginning sequence. We do not know wether we are going use these images, after comparing them to the previous footage we have shot we will decide.




We also filmed and captured a short clip of footage of someone tasting a lollipop. This will be used in our beginning sequence.

Capturing footage. 1st November.

Today, Jess, Charlotte and I captured the footage Jess and Charlotte had shot previously of the interview and cut aways of Margret Ross and Penny Williams.

Filmimg Mageret Ross's Interview. 26th and 27th October.

On the 26th October, Jess and Charlotte went to interview Margeret Ross again because the first framing was wrong. On the  27th October, Jess and charlotte went and interviewed Penny William who is a guide dog trainer. I could not attend these because of personal reasons.

Beginning sequence. 21st October.

Today Charlotte, Jess and I filmed and captured more footage which we needed for our beginning sequence. This included shots such as a close up of hands and a mid shot of someone sneezing.
Below are some pictures we took during the filming process.