Thursday, 26 February 2015
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Evaluation audience feedback focus group
What are you opinions on the music and
documentary clips that have been used, do they help to create a brand identity
for the radio trailer, documentary and double page spread?
If you could change anything about the radio
trailer what would it be and why?
Does the radio trailer sound similar to the
trailers you would usually hear whilst listening to Capital Radio?
Documentary – Focus Group questions:
1.
In your opinion, how
professional does the documentary look?
2.
What aspects of the documentary
did you enjoy?
3.
What aspects of the documentary
didn’t you enjoy?
4.
In the documentary what worked
do you think worked well?
5.
What type of audience do you
think is suitable for the documentary?
6.
From this 5-minute introduction
of the documentary, would you watch the rest?
Magazine focus group questions
Magazine- focus group
questions-
1)
In
your opinion, how professional does the double page spread look?
2)
As a
young adult, does this double page spread appeal to you?
3)
How
effective is the imagery used on the double page spread?
4)
Does
the title stand out to you on the page?
5)
Is the
article interesting and creative, linking to the topic?
6)
Relying
on your knowledge, how well does the double page spread replicate an existing
radio times spread?
Evaluation 3: Emily Hollis
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Throughout our Media course, we have relied on audience feedback as a way of finding out if our documentary is effective. At the beginning of the course, we used audience feedback of questionnaires and focus groups to discover what types of documentaries people like, but also how much they know about the topic of our choosing. From this research, we found out statistics, which we were then able to use in the documentary, and also discovered what people liked. The decision of choosing a voice over, also came from the results from the questionnaire, as almost all the people we asked preferred a voice over to a questionnaire.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
radio trailer editing
For the past few lessons I have been working on creating the advertising radio trailer for our documentary, which will be featured on Capital radio as that is the radio station that attracts our target audience.
For this I have used garage band and voice clips from our documentary to create a common house style that could easily be identified by the target audience, this is also helped by the fact that for the background music I used the same track that is used in the documentary.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Original Images for magazine
These images were taken as screenshots in the production of our documentary makeover clips. We screenshot them and placed them in our magazine article to show the different stereotypes. We felt the pictures related to the article nicely and were very eye catching on the page. These medium/medium close up images give the reader a taster of the documentary and makes it more likely for people to tune in. These images are not the main images on the page and still need to be manipulated in terms of colour and pixilation. The images are going to be placed down the right hand side of our double page in an unstructured Polaroid style. This creates a fun visual for our magazine which relates to our target audience and Bill Nichols, participatory mode.
Setting up filming
The latch must be pulled open in order to open up an set up the tripod. Opening this allows the legs of the tripod to move and be set up.
After all three legs of the trip are open, it is important to then close the latch on each of the legs in order to hold the position. This is vital so that the tripod doesn't move when filming.
This is what it looks like when the base of the tripod is set up.
In order to achieve accuracy when filming, it is vital to a line the small ball in the inner circle to make sure the camera is straight.
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Monday, 2 February 2015
Progress update 10
This week I created the radio trailer which is used to promote our documentary using Adobe Premier.
Magazine Copy
Did
you ever see the film ‘Divergent’? Quick synopsis… society forced the younger
generation to choose a section, in which they would exist. It was only socially
acceptable to interact with your own section, however if you didn’t pick, you
were set aside as an outcast…someone who didn’t belong. Is that what were
doing? I mean, I wouldn’t say were doing the exact same, in the film she got
tracked down by a whole militant army who were trying to kill her because she
fit more than one section. I wouldn’t say our society is going to such extremes
but there are some similarities to say the least! Or… does your life resemble
more of a ‘Mean girls’ script? I’m pretty sure to any male or female reader; I
do not need to run a synopsis on Mean girls. So are you an “unfriendly black
hotty? Varsity Jock... A girl who eats her feelings… Or worse…. BEWARE OF THE
PLASTICS” So who are you? Do you know? New Channel 4 documentary (airing 5th
February 8pm) may be able to tell you. The documentary talks about the issues
relating such a cruel reality of the effects of Stereotyping and the negative
effect it can have on such youthful minds.
We
spoke to the Editor and Director, Emily Hollis, to find out why she felt this
was such a crucial topic to discuss in her new documentary.
Hello
Emily, nice to meet you, you must be so excited about the release of your new
documentary, what made you so keen to produce a documentary discussing this
subject?
Hello,
it’s so nice to be here! It is safe to say that I have a strong connection with
this topic. I was bullied as a child and was seen as a bit of an outcast. I was
into rock music and liked to wear a lot of black, but I feel, as though,
looking back, it wasn’t really my choice to be like that. I felt like I had to be,
as other groups wouldn’t accept me. Then
through secondary school I had a lot of friends that I didn’t necessarily
involve myself with but felt I had no one else. I never felt as though I
belonged.
How awful! So would you say that it
was society that you acted that way or your own choice?
Society
definitely! I liked black and rock music but that didn’t mean that I wanted to
go and sneak into abandoned buildings trying to wake the dead and burn things.
I was a girl that liked shopping and talked about boys and painted nails. But,
in society all they saw were black clothes and band t-shirts and to them I
wasn’t allowed to like them things. Instead, the groups that liked them things
didn’t like me…based on appearance of course. According to them and the
stereotypes society had set…I was never going to be one of them.
Did you use yourself as an example
in your documentary; did you base your ideas around your own experiences?
No
not at all! What happened to me doesn’t mean I can form a theory about the
whole of society! No, in order to gather our information and statistics, we
formed surveys and asked students from Solihull Sixth Form to answer them.
That’s where we gathered our research. To be honest, it was shocking to me! I
would have never thought that almost 70% of them felt judged by their
appearance. That really hurt me. I think that’s when I knew for sure this issue
needed to be faced.
Oh, I would have never thought that!
You address the media in your documentary about their role in stereotyping,
would you say they play a big part?
Yes,
I think they do! I mean stereotypes have to come from somewhere right? And who
can reach everyone in society besides the media? I spoke to Nick Waring, the
head of Media at an A-level institute and he agreed that the media exaggerates
stereotypes and makes society more aware of them. I mean, personally, I think
its specifically in teen films, so it… kind of, makes children and teens to
grow up with these ideas fixated in them.
Definitely! Thank you so much for
coming in and good luck with the documentary!
Thank
you all! I’m so excited for the release!
So
it’s safe to say appearances change very easily. For a girl all she has to do
is apply foundation, eyeliner, lip liner and Voila! She is a new person. For
boys, yeah, it may be a little harder, but still, put a boy in a leather biker
jacket and all of society will look at him like the next Kurt Cobain, right?
Find
out Thursday 5th February 8:00pm on channel 4
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