2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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12. We needed to make sure that the TV listings was consistent to the documentary. We decided that the title of the documentary was enough to grab the attention of the reader as it is a question which makes the reader think about and ultimately make them read the article. We included this line to add to the title before the audience reads the article. It makes them want to find out more as it doesn’t give too much away. We included quotes from our documentary so that it gives the reader an idea of what the documentary is going to be like. The quote also links to the image of a parent which shows one person’s view of the debate.
13. Along with the image of the parent we embedded a caption to add context to the image. Again we used a question to make the reader think about what they think the answer should be. For our image we decided that an image of the presenter would be best as our article was an interview with the presenter discussing the creation of the documentary. We looked at the conventions of TV listings pages and found that they all use drop cap.
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15. Radio Trailer We used Garageband to create our radio trailer. This program allowed us to easily put sound clips together alongside music in order to create the trailer easily.
16. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
17. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? When creating the TV listings page and the radio trailer we had to make sure that they linked together well so that they created a brand identity and targeted our audience. To do this we looked at other TV listings and radio trailers and used some features to link ours together. We decided to have an interview with the presenter of the documentary for our article. We included an image of our presenter.
18. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? We also decided to included responses from our presenter in our radio trailer. This then links with the TV listings and when the audience watches the documentary they will recognise her voice and her appearance. We also used a similar name for both the TV listings and the documentary. Our documentary is called ‘So You Think You’re Old Enough?’ and the title of our listings page is ‘SEX: Are You Think You’re Old Enough?’. This means that after the audience has read the article, when the documentary is on TV they will recognise it and remember the article making them watch it.
19. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? We tried to make sure that our documentary, TV listings and radio trailer linked together to create a brand identity. I think we did this quite effectively by using the presenter in all three of these media types. However I think that we could have added more to make the brand stand out even more. To do this we could have incorporated the same font and colours in our documentary and TV listings. Also we could have used the same music for the documentary and the radio trailer.
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23. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
24. Final Cut Express We used FCE to create our documentary as it was the best program for us to use as it was simple and allowed us to organise our footage easily as well as showing us our documentary on a timeline, which was easy to see and use. FCE allowed us to log and transfer our footage and put the footage into a ‘bin’. This allowed us to cut down footage to the important parts we needed and organise them into the minutes so that we could find the clips needed easily and quickly.
25. Garageband We used garageband as it was an easy program to use for what we needed it to do. We needed to create up to a minute of sound for our radio trailer. Garageband allowed us to import soundbites, music and voiceovers. Garageband was easy to understand and set out our sound in a clear visual way.
26. Photoshop and InDesign We used Photoshop to manipulate our image for our listings page. We used Photoshop as it is a program that contains a lot of effects that we could use on our image. We used InDesign to create our TV listings page. This program allowed us to create a double page spread as well as other conventions of a listings page, such as drop cap, columns and titles.
27. Filming Equipment We used a video camera, tripod, digital still camera, external microphone and an m audio recorder to gather all our footage and voiceovers for our documentary, TV listings and radio trailer. The video camera we used was good, however we found at times that it wouldn’t focus. For example we wanted to take footage of someone searching on the internet. However the camera wouldn’t focus enough to see the writing on the screen. We felt that this wouldn’t be good quality so decided not to use it.
28. Digital Stills Camera We used a digital stills camera to take images for our montage and TV listings. The camera was good and worked how we wanted it to. The only problem with our images was that we could have been more inventive with the images we took to make them look more professional.
29. M-Audio Recorder We used an M-Audio recorder along with an external microphone to record our voiceovers for the documentary and the radio trailer. The only issue we had was that sometimes the sound quality through the external microphone was poor so we had to redo some of our voiceovers. Also we found that sometimes we couldn’t set the sound levels right on the M-Audio, this caused problems when we imported the sound for the documentary. We tried rectifying the issue in Final Cut Express but this wasn’t working so we had to rerecord some of our voiceovers.
30. Blogger We used a blog while completing the documentary task. This allowed each member of the group to upload individual work that could be accessed by the others. This meant that when splitting tasks between the group we could all have access to it. Also the blog allowed us to see the progress of our documentary and the tasks we had set ourselves.
