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that the programme flows from clip to clip. In some documentaries, the
voiceover or presenter isn't bias and in some, they are slightly to convey a
certain message or opinion to the audience. A voiceover is used in ‘Too Much
Too Young’, instead of a presenter. I think this is because there are a lot of
case studies and interviews in the documentary, which would be easily
introduced with a voiceover to explain what is going on and what is coming
up next. The voiceover always has
to relate to what is being shown, Our documentary: Establishing shot of
otherwise, it will confuse the viewer make up and skincare store, Space NK
and be misleading.
audience for our own documentary, showing that opinions from people of
different ages are varied and fascinating for the audience. In our
documentary, we included interviews from the Space NK manager and
college counsellor, showing their different opinions as one focused on her
experience of customers and make up, and the counsellor expressed how
students feel pressure to feel good. Also, conventionally, there is a caption
on screen to show the audience who the person is, and the interview is
filmed in a medium shot (MS) or medium close up (MCU) to show emphasis
on facial expressions and the
interviewee looks towards the Our Documentary: Kellie, the Space NK
bottom right or left hand corner of manager – expert opinion
the screen, making it look more
professional.
Another typical
convention is a
caption which we
Standfirst before used to anchor the
the article, in a main image of Becky
larger font size, as applying lipstick. We
a summary about labelled it as “Becky,
the article so Obsessed Teenager”
readers know what to emphasise to our
the article is target audience with
primarily based on. our case study
The rhetorical example the
question lets the extremes people go
audience question to about body image
themselves about and how teenagers
the topic. We also in society respond to
used ‘Impact’ font it today.
for this which is
the same as the
The layout of the
font we used for
images on both
the captions in our
article pages is
documentary.
similar – with one
main image of the
Conventionally, the case study and the
time, date, and other two of make-
title of the up. They both also
programme are include page
shown before the numbers, helping
article. This makes the audience to find
the important the page.
details of when it
will release
important and Another typical
easier for our convention was our
younger target use of columns for
audience to find on our text. This
the page, as it is created a
even separated professional look
with lines. and made it easier
for the audience to
read it, as it follows
a particular format.
Our listings page was made for the ‘Radio Times’ magazine, and this is emphasised as it is
shown in the centre of the page. This shows the audience that this article is specifically made
to be advertised in this magazine only. However, even though the page is made specifically for
a younger audience, not many of our audience look in magazines for promotional material
about documentaries. If we advertised it else where it would be on TV, billboards, and buses
as they are more visual and big, grabbing the attention of teenagers and young adults as they
typically wouldn’t read a ‘Radio Times’ magazine. Although, this TV listings page is credible
and similar to the documentary, as we converted images from the documentary itself onto the
page and the font and colour schemes are bright and appealing for our target audience.
We also used the Adobe InDesign software to create our listings page, and edited the images in Adobe
Photoshop by increasing the brightness/contrast to make them more eye-catching and bright.
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V/O - From Nails to hair and accessories, has the media influenced them in a
positive way?
[Clip from interview with Counsellor from The Sixth Form College]
[Clip of voxpop of boys saying some girls look ugly without make up] (– this
created suspense and a dramatic effect at the end of the radio trailer,
intriguing viewers to listen in and find out more about how serious this body
image topic is on teenagers.)
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We used rapid, upbeat tempo dance music in the background which had the
same speed as the minute long montage at the beginning of our
documentary, because if we used slow tempo sound, it wouldn’t appeal to
our younger target audience, and it wouldn’t be similar to our documentary.
We also used extracts from the documentary itself, giving the audience a feel
and sneak peak at what will be included in the documentary, increasing
awareness in the topic and linking them, successfully advertising the main
product. We created our radio trailer in GarageBand by adding layers for
each extract and audio track so it was easier to
blend the sound and change the sound levels on
each clip.
trailer and the documentary have the same sound, making it more unique
and specific for the programme.
But, we did include males and females in the radio trailer, emphasising to the
listeners that both genders are targeted to watch the documentary, even
though it is primarily aimed towards females. We also included the day, time,
title and channel at the end of the trailer to summarise when and where the
programme will air, which increases interest to watch it towards our target
audience, but also as the information was at the end of the trailer, it would
stay fresh in the audience’s minds after they hear it.
The radio trailer was a great way to advertise the documentary as there are
many ways in which the target audience could have heard it such as word of
mouth, in the car, on a stereo player, on the internet, YouTube, Facebook,
Twitter, MySpace, blogs, podcasts and many other social networking sites.
This increases awareness for the documentary as this form of advertising can
be spread and heard from many places.
Overall, the ancillary tasks were successful in that they both anchored the
documentary well by including the same quotes and examples from the
documentary itself, which fulfilled the task of promoting the main product
and helped to establish this brand identity. I think
they both communicate the message of whether
teenage girls are getting too obsessed with their
image or not, which creates a theme through them all
and links the three texts together effectively.
Although, internet advertising would have been more
effective than a listings page as teenagers nowadays
spend most of their time on the computer and on the internet, which
suggests that promoting on here would reach our audience quicker as their
access to the advertisements would be easier, increasing more younger
teenager’s awareness to our documentary.
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Below are the findings from our questionnaires based on our documentary
and one of the graphs of the overall rating:
Also another thing they said was a weakness was the close up shots of
students in voxpops. Originally, these shots were two
shots of two students, but using Final Cut Express, we
edited the frame by zooming in on the clip and onto
each person when they spoke so show their were many
opinions. We knew the quality wasn’t as clear when we
did this, so we weren’t surprised with this feedback.
teenage age group. Plus, as it was a media class, this shows that they
viewed our documentary in an analytical way and not in a way where they
watched it solely for the topic itself, or as a typical target audience.
Before we started this project, I had never used the software Final Cut
Express on the Apple Mac computer. Now, I am able to use the basic
controls, but also effectively edit on the software.
After we filmed the clips for our documentary, we opened up Final Cut
Express and clicked into ‘Log and Transfer’. This allowed us to select the clips
we wanted to use, and certain parts of it, name them so we knew what each
one was, and then ‘Add clip to queue’ which then added to our sequence of
videos saved under our ‘Body Image’ file name. When we completed this, we
dragged a clip we wanted to use into the first ‘viewer’, watched it, selected
the part we wanted by (Ctrl+I) for the beginning and (Ctrl+O) for the end,
and then we dragged it onto the timeline. We did the same for the rest of the
clips and organised a basic order of what sequence we wanted our
documentary to go in, and then changed this if we didn’t think it was right.
After we got all our clips in place, we selected many copyright free tracks
from genres such as beats, dance and electricity. We dragged this into the
bottom audio section of the timeline and edited the sound levels using the
‘pen’ tool, giving us more control of the sound as the entire track didn’t have
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to be in the same sound level. At the end of making our documentary on this
software, I was easily able to create captions and put them on top of
interviews in the same ‘Impact’ white coloured font, so it didn’t change
throughout the documentary, making it look more professional. We also
created an image collage by putting each picture on a different layer and
decreased the sizes with ‘Image + Wireframe’, making them all appear one
by one, and then put captions of facts and statistics over it. When we
completed our documentary, we exported it in ‘QuickTime Conversion’ as a
‘Video and Audio file’, putting it in a movie format. After this, I am now
effectively able to use Final Cut Express, as before this, I had no clue how to
use it. Before I could only use software’s I had self taught myself on such as
Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas and Sony Movie Studio.
We selected copyright free tracks from the bottom of the screen, previewed it
to see if it would be a good addition to our trailer, and then dragged it onto
our timeline and shortened or repeated it throughout. I was able to
effectively use this software, by remembering the knowledge we learnt last
year. This helped us to make our trailer efficiently as we knew what tools to
use.
Also, last year for our AS coursework, we created music magazines. To put
all the pages together and to create the contents and article pages, we used
the software Adobe InDesign. For this project, we created the TV listings
page in Adobe InDesign. Below is an example of the layout in InDesign when
creating our listings page. There are many place boxes on the page where
the images will be imported, and column lines for when we copy and paste
the article text.
I am effectively able to use this software, as I can easily add pages, create
place boxes, resize images and text, change colours, export it as a jpeg or
pdf file, and organise the layout clearly.
Graphics. Last year I learnt the basics of using Photoshop, but now I am
effectively able to use the technology to an expert standard. I know how to
add layers, change effects, crop and select certain areas. This is beneficial,
as I know how to edit, so I didn’t struggle when I edited images on the
software. For our TV listings page, we simply changed the effects of the still
images that were exported from our actual documentary of Becky and make
up. We did this by adjusting the brightness and contrast, and increased it,
making it appear brighter on the page, which targeted our audience by the
bright use of colours in our images, as most of our audience would look at
images which appeal them to watch a programme.
Adobe
Photoshop:
adjusting the
brightness and
contrast
Before we started filming our documentary, the best way to know what we
were going to film was to arrange a simple structure in
a storyboard of what order our documentary was
going to be in, and what clips would be included. We
first sketched our storyboard with pencil and paper,
and when we were happy with this, we captured some
still images of what we might include in our
documentary and put it into a simple storyboard,
using computer software Comic Life. We also created
another storyboard when we completed our
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Videos that we
uploaded onto our
blog, by
embedding the
link, so it is more
interactive
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