Thursday, 16 December 2010
Audience Feedback
Questionnaire
BETWEEN 1-5
1 BEING GOOD, 5 BEING BAD
How informative did you find this documentary?
How entertaining did you find this documentary?
How professional did the documentary look?
Was the documentary eye catching?
Was the documentary conventional for its genre?
Results
60% found it informative
This could be because we included a historian which adds expertise and facts to the documentaries.
40% found it entertaining
This could be becuase we used graphics at the beginning
70% found the technical quality
this could be becuse we used professional equipment in the filmeing and editing.
50% found the documentary eye catching
This could be because of the bright colours used when interviewing the tattoo artist.
60% found it conventional
This could be because talking head shots were used
Evaluation
Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, deveop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Evaluation Question 2
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Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Evaluation Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Skin Deep
Our documentary: Skin Deep
Our radio trailer:
Our Poster:
Main Product
We were asked to make our own poster, to show how our advertisement campaign may look like if this documentary would air on a channel. When planning our documentary we decided on the channel we would broadcast our documentary on, what we would call it and what day and time we would broadcast it. We decided to include all this in our poster, this would therefore give all the information that the audience needed without over-loading them. We then had to look at how channel 4 posters are set out, we found a recurring theme. The posters included a background image, white writing with a black box background and a channel 4 logo. We therefore had to find an image which would sum up our whole documentary, this was extremely difficult. We then followed the conventions of a channel 4 poster, and tried to imitate it to the best possible quality. Overall, i believe our poster resembles a channel 4 poster and is easily recognisable as a documentary on that channel.
Our radio trailer:
Our Poster:
Main Product
We were asked to make our own poster, to show how our advertisement campaign may look like if this documentary would air on a channel. When planning our documentary we decided on the channel we would broadcast our documentary on, what we would call it and what day and time we would broadcast it. We decided to include all this in our poster, this would therefore give all the information that the audience needed without over-loading them. We then had to look at how channel 4 posters are set out, we found a recurring theme. The posters included a background image, white writing with a black box background and a channel 4 logo. We therefore had to find an image which would sum up our whole documentary, this was extremely difficult. We then followed the conventions of a channel 4 poster, and tried to imitate it to the best possible quality. Overall, i believe our poster resembles a channel 4 poster and is easily recognisable as a documentary on that channel.
Monday, 13 December 2010
Codes and Conventions
Codes and Conventions of a radio trailer
• These are the codes and conventions of radio trailers:
• The title of the documentary is said
• They always include what channel the documentary is on
• Extracts from the programme are used
• There is a voice over which: may show the narrative or pose questions.
• There is always music
• The advert is always played on an appropriate radio channel; young teenager BBC programmes can be advertised on Radio 1
We analysed two different radio trailers, in order to recognise the different examples of codes and conventions used. This would then be able to give us an insight into the lay out of radio adverts, which in turn would give us an idea of how to set out our own radio advert.
We looked at the radio trailer about the appeal for help towards Madeline McCann. It included a variety of typical conventions such as the narrator broadcasting the time, channel and day it would be broadcasted. In the background there was a rhythmic beat which caused a serious tone to the trailer, in-keeping with the seriousness of the subject. At the end there was the ident, a memorable sound to distinguish its broadcaster.
The next chosen radio trailer to analyse was a documentary about the Queen. The use of rock music in the background was an unsusual sound to include and was un-asscociable with the connotations included with the Queen. The inclusion of voice clips of the Queen, made the trailer subject more recognisable. It also included voice clips of bush and the public, which gave a comparison and variety to the trailer. The trailer did use some conventions, however it did not use a narration; which can be seen as unusual.
We found that the trailer about Madeline McCann used a lot of conventional media codes, in order to keep the tone professional and serious; which is understandable due to the seriousness of the subject. They included recognisable radio conventions, such as the ident and a narrator. However, the Queen trailer was un-conventional. It did not use typical conventions, and tried to add irony to a subject that many find serious. The only conventions used, is that of an example of voice clips. The un-conventional exmaples, are that of rock music playing instead of classical music which could be seen as more fitting with the Queen.
These trailers helped us greatly, and we decided to try and include conventions as well as out inovetive ideas.
• These are the codes and conventions of radio trailers:
• The title of the documentary is said
• They always include what channel the documentary is on
• Extracts from the programme are used
• There is a voice over which: may show the narrative or pose questions.
• There is always music
• The advert is always played on an appropriate radio channel; young teenager BBC programmes can be advertised on Radio 1
We analysed two different radio trailers, in order to recognise the different examples of codes and conventions used. This would then be able to give us an insight into the lay out of radio adverts, which in turn would give us an idea of how to set out our own radio advert.
We looked at the radio trailer about the appeal for help towards Madeline McCann. It included a variety of typical conventions such as the narrator broadcasting the time, channel and day it would be broadcasted. In the background there was a rhythmic beat which caused a serious tone to the trailer, in-keeping with the seriousness of the subject. At the end there was the ident, a memorable sound to distinguish its broadcaster.
The next chosen radio trailer to analyse was a documentary about the Queen. The use of rock music in the background was an unsusual sound to include and was un-asscociable with the connotations included with the Queen. The inclusion of voice clips of the Queen, made the trailer subject more recognisable. It also included voice clips of bush and the public, which gave a comparison and variety to the trailer. The trailer did use some conventions, however it did not use a narration; which can be seen as unusual.
We found that the trailer about Madeline McCann used a lot of conventional media codes, in order to keep the tone professional and serious; which is understandable due to the seriousness of the subject. They included recognisable radio conventions, such as the ident and a narrator. However, the Queen trailer was un-conventional. It did not use typical conventions, and tried to add irony to a subject that many find serious. The only conventions used, is that of an example of voice clips. The un-conventional exmaples, are that of rock music playing instead of classical music which could be seen as more fitting with the Queen.
These trailers helped us greatly, and we decided to try and include conventions as well as out inovetive ideas.
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Codes and Conventions of Print Adverts
As you can see these are easily recongnisable as channel 4 posters, as they use their typical and recognisable conventions. Such as: writing in a box, one main image, the date, the title, the time and the logo included; all in similar places.
This conventional style make its layout easily recongnisable as that of channel 4's.
We looked at different examples of posters such as:
As you can see this poster is being advertised by an American broadcasting channel, i wanted to look at the difference between Brittish advertisements and American advertisements. As you can see the layout it different, as all the main information is put at the bottom of the poster. However the image is striking and attracts the audience.
Conventions of a Print Advert
One key image
Minimalist use of words- simple and concise
The title is always included
The slogan is also sometimes included on the print advert
The scheduling information always included
Channel logo is prominent and particularly on the right hand side
The print advert is usually a4 landscape size so that it is versatile and can be used at various sizes in newspapers, magazines or on billboards
This is the first draft of our print advert which we drew ourselves. It has the channel 4 logo on the right, the title of the programme on the bottom right and the day the documentary is underneath the title. However, We took the image from our sequence and becuase of this we decided not to use this poster and use an original photo we took ourself.
We took a picture of somebodys knuckles and used photoshop to make it look as though there was tattoos on the knuckles. We decided to use this image as it was original and the audience can see that the documentary is about tattoos. Again we put the channel 4 logo on the right hand side and the title and date on the bottom left in text boxes.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Running order/ edit decision list
Production Schedule
Production Schedule
Programme Title: Skin deep
Director will: Sophie Edgar, Katharine Bann
Producer will: Sophie Edgar, Katharine Bann
Date Production will start: 27th September
Treatment will start for final idea: 27th September
Target research will start: 28th September
Timeline will start: 30th September
Storyboard will start: 30th September
Formal Proposal will start: 1st October
Filming will start: 8th October
Editing will start: 22nd October
Logging sheet:
This is a list of all the shots that we took, which allowed us to see what shots we could include in our documentary.
Edit Decision List:
After creating a logging sheet, we then had to decide which shots we were keeping and getting rid of. These would be the final shots that we could use in our documentary and it helped us a lot when putting the documentary together.
30 minute running order:
Title 'skin deep' show at the start of the documentary being drawn with a tattoo gun for 10 seconds
Pictures of celebrity tattoos, shocking tattoos, tattoos from the past and fashionable tattoos for 15 seconds
Tattoo being done for one minute 5 seconds
Interviews of tattooist for 1 minute 30 seconds
Interview of historian for 1 minute
Reaction of people for 40 seconds
Archive footage for 15 seconds
Then image of a quotation for 5 seconds
Then image of clip saying ‘end of part one’ 5 seconds
Clip of interview with businessman for 10 seconds
Over voice with cutaways in relation to subject 30 seconds
Interview with businessman on subject of how tattoos effect what job you get for 1 minute 15 seconds.
Cutaways of different work places 10 seconds
Interview with person that got fired due to tattoos that they had for 30 seconds
Recreation playing during this interview 30 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Then image of ‘end of part 2’ for 5 seconds
Clip of pope saying disagree with tattoos for 30 seconds
Cutaways of religious buildings, with particular focus on hell related statues. Over voice in background. 10 seconds
Interview with priest that disagrees with tattoos 1 minute
Reactions of people on street who disagree with tattoos 40 seconds
Interview with vicar that agrees with tattoos 1 minute
Reactions of people on street that agree with tattoos 40 seconds
Then image of quotation for 5 seconds
Then image saying ‘end of part 3’ 5 seconds
Recreation of tattoo being done in past, example from each generation for 1 minute
Interview with sailor from war for 1 minute
Archive footage of sailor tattoos 20 seconds
Interview with person from Auschwitz for 1 minute
Archive footage of Auschwitz tattoos 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image saying ‘end of part 4’ 5 seconds
Interview with man that has a whole body of tattoos for 2 minutes
Reaction of him in street 20 seconds
Reaction he has to images of extreme tattoos 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image saying ‘end of part 5’ 5 seconds
Cutaways of school related subject 15 seconds
Examples of different age groups of children’s ideas about tattoos – 2 minute
Teacher’s ideas about tattoos- 1 minute
Interview with head teacher about punishments for tattoos and his ideas about them- 1 minute
Interview with parent who disagrees with tattoos- 1 minute
Interview with parent that agrees with tattoos- 1 minute
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image of ‘end of part 6’ for 5 seconds
Interview with different tattooists about when tattoos go wrong- 3 minutes
Images of tattoos when they go wrong 30 seconds
Over voice talking about how it effect the Media accompanied by images 10 seconds
School children singing songs about tattoos 1 minute 30 seconds
Over voice with images for 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Production Schedule
Programme Title: Skin deep
Director will: Sophie Edgar, Katharine Bann
Producer will: Sophie Edgar, Katharine Bann
Date Production will start: 27th September
Treatment will start for final idea: 27th September
Target research will start: 28th September
Timeline will start: 30th September
Storyboard will start: 30th September
Formal Proposal will start: 1st October
Filming will start: 8th October
Editing will start: 22nd October
Logging sheet:
This is a list of all the shots that we took, which allowed us to see what shots we could include in our documentary.
Edit Decision List:
After creating a logging sheet, we then had to decide which shots we were keeping and getting rid of. These would be the final shots that we could use in our documentary and it helped us a lot when putting the documentary together.
30 minute running order:
Title 'skin deep' show at the start of the documentary being drawn with a tattoo gun for 10 seconds
Pictures of celebrity tattoos, shocking tattoos, tattoos from the past and fashionable tattoos for 15 seconds
Tattoo being done for one minute 5 seconds
Interviews of tattooist for 1 minute 30 seconds
Interview of historian for 1 minute
Reaction of people for 40 seconds
Archive footage for 15 seconds
Then image of a quotation for 5 seconds
Then image of clip saying ‘end of part one’ 5 seconds
Clip of interview with businessman for 10 seconds
Over voice with cutaways in relation to subject 30 seconds
Interview with businessman on subject of how tattoos effect what job you get for 1 minute 15 seconds.
Cutaways of different work places 10 seconds
Interview with person that got fired due to tattoos that they had for 30 seconds
Recreation playing during this interview 30 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Then image of ‘end of part 2’ for 5 seconds
Clip of pope saying disagree with tattoos for 30 seconds
Cutaways of religious buildings, with particular focus on hell related statues. Over voice in background. 10 seconds
Interview with priest that disagrees with tattoos 1 minute
Reactions of people on street who disagree with tattoos 40 seconds
Interview with vicar that agrees with tattoos 1 minute
Reactions of people on street that agree with tattoos 40 seconds
Then image of quotation for 5 seconds
Then image saying ‘end of part 3’ 5 seconds
Recreation of tattoo being done in past, example from each generation for 1 minute
Interview with sailor from war for 1 minute
Archive footage of sailor tattoos 20 seconds
Interview with person from Auschwitz for 1 minute
Archive footage of Auschwitz tattoos 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image saying ‘end of part 4’ 5 seconds
Interview with man that has a whole body of tattoos for 2 minutes
Reaction of him in street 20 seconds
Reaction he has to images of extreme tattoos 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image saying ‘end of part 5’ 5 seconds
Cutaways of school related subject 15 seconds
Examples of different age groups of children’s ideas about tattoos – 2 minute
Teacher’s ideas about tattoos- 1 minute
Interview with head teacher about punishments for tattoos and his ideas about them- 1 minute
Interview with parent who disagrees with tattoos- 1 minute
Interview with parent that agrees with tattoos- 1 minute
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Image of ‘end of part 6’ for 5 seconds
Interview with different tattooists about when tattoos go wrong- 3 minutes
Images of tattoos when they go wrong 30 seconds
Over voice talking about how it effect the Media accompanied by images 10 seconds
School children singing songs about tattoos 1 minute 30 seconds
Over voice with images for 20 seconds
Image of quotation for 5 seconds
Professional Help
This week I was shown how to create our title, we wanted the title to be interesting so that it would draw the audience in. We photo shopped a tattoo gun, and then followed the outline of our title so that when finished it will look like it is being drawn onto the screen. We all tried to find examples of tattoos that we thought would be interesting for our documentary, we wanted to add a historical theme to our documentary and so we tried to find tattoos throughout time. We also wanted to make the documentary relatable, so we decided to include pictures of celebrity tattoos.
Today I have spoken with a professional about our documentary and he suggests that we include more things off our blog into the documentary. He thinks we should put some vox pops in our documentary. We decided to print pictures off of celebrities with tattoos and extreme tattoos and then show this to people in the street and film their rection.He said that we should show some pictures of us filming to put on our blogs. We have some pictures of magazines that we found in the tattoo parlour on our blogs he says that we should print them out, zoom in on them and use them as cut aways on our documentary. Apart from this he says our documentary is very good so far.
Our Feedback- we felt this was very helpful, we included more vox pops in our piece of the general public as he advised us. We did plan on zooming in on the magazines, but in the end we decided not to as we did not have enough room in the documentary. However we did print off the images of tattoos and people with tattoos to show to the people, when filming the vox pops.
Today I have spoken with a professional about our documentary and he suggests that we include more things off our blog into the documentary. He thinks we should put some vox pops in our documentary. We decided to print pictures off of celebrities with tattoos and extreme tattoos and then show this to people in the street and film their rection.He said that we should show some pictures of us filming to put on our blogs. We have some pictures of magazines that we found in the tattoo parlour on our blogs he says that we should print them out, zoom in on them and use them as cut aways on our documentary. Apart from this he says our documentary is very good so far.
Our Feedback- we felt this was very helpful, we included more vox pops in our piece of the general public as he advised us. We did plan on zooming in on the magazines, but in the end we decided not to as we did not have enough room in the documentary. However we did print off the images of tattoos and people with tattoos to show to the people, when filming the vox pops.
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