Ashleigh Morris A2 Media

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.