Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop 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? I made a video in response to this question.

Audience Feedback

After completing our 5 minute extract for our documentary, radio trailer and newspaper advertisement we had to get audience feedback from them. In order to do this properly we created a questions to get their feedback. Below are the questions we asked for each media product;

Documentary
1. After watching the first 5 minutes of our documentary, would you watch the rest of the programme?
2. What do you think the strengths of the documentary are?

3. What do you think the weaknesses of the documentary are?

4. Do you like our song choices?

5. Do you think we have filmed everything the correct way? Is there anything you would change in the camera work?

6. Does the editing work well?

Radio Trailer
1. Does the radio trailer make our documentary sound interesting?

2. Do you now want to watch our documentary?

3. What do you think about our voice over?

Print Advert
1. Does the print advert grab your attention?

2. What are your opinions on your documentary slogan?

3. Do you think people between the ages of 16-25 will watch our documentary?

4. Is there anything you would change to the print advert?
5. What do you think about the layout of the print advert?

We uploaded our documentary to YouTube which I then posted on Facebook in order to get additional feedback from more people in our target audience. Below is a screengrab of the post.

I then uploaded our radio trailer in order to get feedback from people on Facebook. Below is a screengrab of this post.

The last post I made on Facebook was our print advert. Again here I asked people the 4 questions about the print advert.

Voiceover Recording

On Tuesday 18th December we recorded our voice over for the whole documentary. After making more changes to it we now have a finished product. The voice over will be placed in appropriate places throughout the 5 minute extract of our documentary.

Recording and Editing Radio Trailer

On Tuesday 18th December I recorded and started editing our radio trailer for our documentary. I used a voice recorder to record the script and I used Adobe Premier Pro to edit. Below is a screenshot of the radio trailer production.

I also videoed myself editing to prove that this work is original and I created it myself.

Screengrab of Music Company Email

In order to get copyright approval, we emailed the record companies to see if it was ok that we used the music in our documentary. We found an email address on the sites official page.

Print Advert Production

One person in our group was in charge of the print advert, throughout a couple of days Gemma worked on making the print advert. During the production she took screenshots to document her work so far, below are the shots she took.

Drafting Print Advert

Since Gemma was in charge of the print advert she had to first draft on paper what she would create later on. Below is a picture of what she drew before starting to make it.

After talking in our group we have made the decision that our print advert will appear in music magazines and teenage magazines. This is so people in our target audience will know about our documentary and will tune in to watch it.

2nd Draft of Scripting Voice Over

On 5th December we re-scripted the voice over for our documentary. This is our 2nd draft, which we will record and use on our documentary. 

Voiceover Script 2

Scripting Radio Trailer

On Tuesday 4th December we began to scrip our radio trailer which will then be rebroadcast sometime during January. Below is a Slide Share of the script with quotes from our documentary included.

Scripting for radio trailer from Taylor 'Sykes' Smith

Codes and Conventions of a Print Advert

Also on Monday 3rd as a class we went through the codes and convention of a print advert. This will then help us in making our print advert for our own documentary. Below are the codes and conventions we went through.

Codes and Conventions of Radio Trailers

On Monday 3rd December we went through the codes and conventions of a radio trailer, this will then help we when we begin to make the radio trailer for our documentary.

1st Draft of Scripting Voiceover

On 26th November we started scripting the voiceover for our documentary. This is our 1st draft, we expect that we will have to make changes to this to make it better. Voiceover Script

Archive Material Filming

On Monday morning during our media lesson, myself and Gemma filmed archive material which we would later use in our documentary. We first filmed our archive material through the computer using different websites, however looking back at the film there were lines across the computer screen. Due to this we printed the pages out and then filmed them so the quality was better. Below are the pictures I took while Gemma was filming.

Re-done Opening Titles

On the 23rd of November as a group we filmed the opening titles again. We decided that the first time we did this there was too much space around Carly and we could not see what was on the T-Shirts properly. Due to this we filmed the opening titles again using Lauren, we filmed in a close up of the T-Shirts so that everyone could see exactly what was on the T-Shirts. I think this worked well.
Below are the pictures we took while setting up.

Editing

On the 21st Noevember we started editing our 5 minute extract from our documentary. Lauren was in charge of editing while myself and Gemma were focusing on the edit decision list. While Lauren was editing we set up a camera and filmed her edit some of our extract, here is the video we took. Lauren also took screen grabs of the documentary production, these are also displayed below.

Edit Decision List

Here is our groups edit decision list, where we had to decide and type up which shots we were using, what order they would go in and the timing. This is displayed in a table on Slide Rocket. At first I created this on a Microsoft Word account with the intension of uploading it onto Scribd. However due to problems with the uploading I took screenshots of the table and uploaded it onto a Slide Rocket.

Logging

The next few lessons we had to create a table which would be our logging sheet. This consisted of watching all of our videos and deciding whether it was a good or bad take. Below is a Scribd and a Slide Rocket which show the two tables; the first Scribd is the first memory card and the Slide Rocket is the second memory card.
Logging Sheet 1

New Opening Titles

On the 16th November, we decided to actually film someone taking off the different T-Shirts for our opening titles. We used a different person to do this. Below are pictures we took when setting up and testing the camera before we used Carly to film the opening titles.

 

Opening Titles

On the 14th November, as a group we decided to take pictures of someone wearing different T-Shirts. However, we did first decide to film someone taking off T-Shirts until they were left wearing 1 T-Shirt which had the name of our documentary on. Below are the pictures we first took.