Skin Deep

These are our final pieces for our documentary skin deep. We have completed the opening 5 minutes of a documentary, a radio trailer advertising the documentary and a print advert.

Here is the opening 5 minutes of our documentary skin deep:

Here is the radio trailer that advertises the documentary. We have used the same narrator for both the advert and the documentary in order to create consistency. We ave used the sound of a tattoo being done in order to set the scene and we have also used voice clips from our documentary.

We created this poster to advertise our documentary skin deep. It includes one main image of tattoos on a pair of knuckles, thus allowing the audience to see that it is about tattoos. We also made the poster look like a channel 4 one by branding it with the channel 4 logo and also by having the date and time in a text box.

Evaluation

Question 1

I have recorded myself for a podcast with my response to question one:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2

I have created a prezi presentation with my response to Question 2:

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? on Prezi

Question 3

The following is my response to Question 3:

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

From these responses from our documentary we know what we did well in our documentary and what needed improving.

Question 4

I have created a slide show with my response to Question 4:

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Question 4

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Audience Feedback

Questionnaire

BETWEEN 1-51 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.

80% found it entertaining

This could be because we used graphics at the beginning

60% found the technical quality professional

this could be because we used professional equipment in the filming and editing.

90% found the documentary eye catching

This could be because of the bright colours used when interviewing the tattoo artist.

80% found it conventional

This could be because talking head shots were used

From our audience feedback we found out that our documentary was conventional and eye catching. However, we also found out that the technical quality could've been better and the content could've been more informative.

Poster

We looked at a few examples of channel 4 posters in order to see what our poster would have to look like. we saw in all the examples we looked at that each were branded with the channel 4 logo. We also saw that the title of the documentary and the day and time it was on was in a coloured text box at the bottom of the poster. Also, the picture on each poster was simple but shown what the documentary was either about or included.





After looking at these examples we wanted to create a poster which was similar.

Codes and conventions of a print advert

• Branding - The channel 4 logo is seen on the right of the image


• Title - The title of the programme is at the bottom left of the poster in a text box


• The day that the documentary is being shown is seen below the title in a text box


• The image of the poster is one simple key image.

Here is our first draft of a print advert for our documentary. 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 because of this we decided not to use this poster and use an original photo we took our self.

We took a picture of somebody's 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.

Codes and conventions of radio trailers

We looked at two different radio trailers and the codes and conventions each have;

Madeleine McGann Documentary

• Rhythmic, beating music
• Narration

-Time programme is on

- The channel the programme is on

- The day the programme is on

• Ident - A score to close the programme

Queen's Documentary

• Fast rock music
• Voice clips of the different people in the documentary
• no narration

We found that different types of documentaries have different codes and conventions that are used in order to captivate an audience. the fast music in The Queen's radio trailer is used in order to make the documentary seem exciting whereas the slow music used in Madeleine McGann's radio trailer is used on order to show the audience that the documentary is serious. Only voice clips are used in the Queens trailer in order to show the audience what type of things are included, however in Madeleine McGann's a narration is used throughout in order to give an overview of the whole documentary.

After looking at these examples we decided to include some of the codes and conventions. We used a narration to state the title, day and time and to also give a bit of informtion about the documentary. We used vox pops from our documentary to show what the documentary included. We used the sound effect of a tattoo gun which relates to the genre of the documentary and we used rock music to mke the documentary seem moe exciting and dramatic. At the end of the radio trailer we used a channel 4 ident.

Edit Decision List

After creating a logging sheet we got all the shots we knew we would use and created an edit decision list. These would be the final shots we used in our sequence and it helped us when putting the piece together.

Logging sheet

Here is a list of all the shots we took. This allowed us to see which shots we could potentially use in our documentary.