Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Evaluation question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Andy gave very posotive feedback after watching the documentary saying he like the images popping up after the vox pops and the shoes popping up after Betty says 'shoes shoes shoes'. From this I learnt that some of the more strange techniques we used such as stop motion and having the images pop up when people say them work well and perhaps in the future I should develop conventions some more like i did with these examples.
Andy also gives positive feedback about the radio advert as well saying he likes the vox pops and the music. From this i learnt that choosing music for a radio advert is very important and it can completely affect the people's opinions on something. With the upbeat and catchy tune that we used it made our documentary seem a bit more exciting so it's definitely the sort of music to choose for a documentary you want to give of that sort of feeling with.
He also reacted poitively to our print advert saying he liked the way we'd set it out. From this I learned that colourful images really catch peoples eyes on a poster and that having all of this stuff piled up was a good way to represent obsession.
Facebook response
I didn't recieve much feedback from Facebook and i didn't really learn much from what i did. It seemed like they liked the documentary calling it professional but didn't give any reason why or any points for improvement.
In conclusion i don't think the audience feedback was that helpful because most of it was positive. I know we need to improve our sound quality and maybe rethink our narrator but I could have done with more negative points so I would know what to do better next time. So overall i don't think the audience feedback was that important or helpful.
Evaluation question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Proffesional print advert
Our Print advert.
Like the professional print advert we have the Channel 4 logo on the right hand side. They both have the title, strapline and date & time in big plain letter which are bannered. Both have a large central image of a person however our background is plain whilst the professional poster has a flag in the background. Other than the central image the professional poster doesn't have anything also however our poster is full of varied items. This is because we thought the best way to represent Obsession visually was a big pile of items because people can be obsessed over anything.
Evaluation question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?
The above clip is the beginning of 'The Devil made me do it' a professional documentary. The documentary opens with a montage of images of fans and Marilyn Manson gigs etc with music behind it and Manson talking over it. This is very similar to the approach we did after our title sequence. I felt like it was a good way to get the audience hooked at the beginning of the documentary. Both have many flashing images showing the sort of things that will be in the documentary and upbeat music as well as a voiceover however 'The Devil Made Me Do It' goes for more menacing feel whilst ours is more light hearted however this is more down to the content of the documentary and is mostly affected by the music and the images as they are much more violent in 'The Devil Made Me Do It'. Both documentaries also use cutaways in the same way.
A big difference between the two is 'The Devil Made Me Do It' is telling a story whilst our documentary asks questions and explains different factors of obsession.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Diary
18/10/11
Today we began filming for our documentary. We first went to the antique shop where we interviewed Derek Hall an antique dealer. We asked him about the customers that come in his shop and the varying levels of obsession and money spent. We also filmed cutaways of the antiques in the shop.
We then went to the staff room at Rode Island Cafe and interviewed Jess Hayden a girl who is obsessed with Xena the princess warrior. We asked her about her obsession, how it affects her life, how much money she spends on it and how it affects the lives of others.
19/10/11
Today in lesson we finished some work for the blog and started logging the footage of the interviews with Derek and Jess.
20/10/11
Today we continued logging the footage and we also started storyboarding our title sequence.
21/10/11
Today in lesson we did the location sheets for our filming locations and added the scanned title storyboard and single frame story board to the blog. We also added our first two logging sheets to the blog. We discussed when we can next film.
28/10/11
Today we went into town and filmed our vox pops. We asked 10 people near the market what their obsession was trying to vary the gender and age. We then asked another 10 people the same question on Bridge street. We then went to Millenium Comics and interviewed the owner Daniel Nash about the customers he gets and their varying range of obsessions.
01/11/11
Today we went to Dan Orr's house to interview him about his obsession with Oasis. We found out that we couldn't interview Janet and didn't have time to interview Jess and James however we got some good footage of Dan.
02/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Dan and interviewed two of Dan's friends in front of the blue screen which we can use instead of interviewing Janet.We then captured the footage of Dan's friends. Katie will take the camera home today to film her friend about her obsession with Football.
03/11/11
Today we interview Jemma Williams the psychology teacher. We also captured the footage of Danielle.
04/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Jemma Williams and began our opening title sequence using jump cuts so items appear on the table.
07/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Angela Danielle's mum and the footage of the title sequence. We also began editing dragging rough sections of the vox pops to the timeline
15/11/11
Today we started to use keying on Premier to put a picture of Oasis in place of the blue screen behind Dan's friend Seb.
07/12/11
Today we captured the title sequence and put it onto the timeline.
Today we began filming for our documentary. We first went to the antique shop where we interviewed Derek Hall an antique dealer. We asked him about the customers that come in his shop and the varying levels of obsession and money spent. We also filmed cutaways of the antiques in the shop.
We then went to the staff room at Rode Island Cafe and interviewed Jess Hayden a girl who is obsessed with Xena the princess warrior. We asked her about her obsession, how it affects her life, how much money she spends on it and how it affects the lives of others.
19/10/11
Today in lesson we finished some work for the blog and started logging the footage of the interviews with Derek and Jess.
20/10/11
Today we continued logging the footage and we also started storyboarding our title sequence.
21/10/11
Today in lesson we did the location sheets for our filming locations and added the scanned title storyboard and single frame story board to the blog. We also added our first two logging sheets to the blog. We discussed when we can next film.
28/10/11
Today we went into town and filmed our vox pops. We asked 10 people near the market what their obsession was trying to vary the gender and age. We then asked another 10 people the same question on Bridge street. We then went to Millenium Comics and interviewed the owner Daniel Nash about the customers he gets and their varying range of obsessions.
31/10/11
Today we captured our footage to premier and organised an interview with a Psychology teacher at college Jemma Williams. We also decided what we are going to do on each day this week. Tomorrow we are interviewing James, Jess, Dan and Janet. If we have time we will try to film the title sequence and cutaways as well.
01/11/11
Today we went to Dan Orr's house to interview him about his obsession with Oasis. We found out that we couldn't interview Janet and didn't have time to interview Jess and James however we got some good footage of Dan.
02/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Dan and interviewed two of Dan's friends in front of the blue screen which we can use instead of interviewing Janet.We then captured the footage of Dan's friends. Katie will take the camera home today to film her friend about her obsession with Football.
03/11/11
Today we interview Jemma Williams the psychology teacher. We also captured the footage of Danielle.
04/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Jemma Williams and began our opening title sequence using jump cuts so items appear on the table.
07/11/11
Today we captured the footage of Angela Danielle's mum and the footage of the title sequence. We also began editing dragging rough sections of the vox pops to the timeline
9/11/11
Today we continued to put more footage onto the timeline rougly including the interview with Danielle.
11/11/11
Today we dragged most of our rough footage to the timeline and began looking for music for our documentary.
15/11/11
Today we started to use keying on Premier to put a picture of Oasis in place of the blue screen behind Dan's friend Seb.
18/11/11
Today we started to cut the timeline more precisely and added music to the beginning over the vox pops.
30/11/11
Today we put in images of some of the things mentioned in the vox pops. The plan is to get them to flash on screen really fast as they say them.
02/12/11
Today we began putting archive footage and stills into our documentary as either cutaways or footage for the voiceover to go over.
06/12/11
Today we realised that our title sequence wasn't good enough so we had to refilm it.
07/12/11
Today we captured the title sequence and put it onto the timeline.
09/12/11
Today we put the rest of the music onto the documentary leaving spaces just for the voiceover now.
12/12/11
Today we recorded the voiceover and radio advert and began putting it onto the timeline.
13/12/11
Today we took a picture for our print advert and decided what to cut from the documentary to make it short enough. We cut some of the interview with Jemma at the end.
14/12/11
Today we finished our documentary and worked on the print advert.
15/12/11
Today we started our radio advert and finished our print advert.
16/12/11
Today we finished the radio advert we just need it all checking then we can move on to our evaluations.
Voice over script
11 secs (18 secs in)
Obsession is something that affects everybody- directly or indirectly, from the reasonable to the completely bizarre. We take a look at obsession, fixation and addiction and how it affects people’s lives and the lives of people around them.
5 secs (1 min 36 secs in)
But how much money are people willing to spend on their obsession?
4/5 secs (3 mins 11 secs in)
Clearly obsession affects people’s lives…but how does it affect the people around them?
5 secs (4 mins 44 secs)
So how do psychologists view obsession and could there be a cure?
Obsession is something that affects everybody- directly or indirectly, from the reasonable to the completely bizarre. We take a look at obsession, fixation and addiction and how it affects people’s lives and the lives of people around them.
5 secs (1 min 36 secs in)
But how much money are people willing to spend on their obsession?
4/5 secs (3 mins 11 secs in)
Clearly obsession affects people’s lives…but how does it affect the people around them?
5 secs (4 mins 44 secs)
So how do psychologists view obsession and could there be a cure?
Radio Advert script
00:00-00:02 – Music Starts
00:02-00:06 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:06 – 00:08 MVO – ‘Can’t stop thinking about it?’
00:08-00:12 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:12 – 00:14 MVO – ‘Never off your mind?’
00:14-00:18 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:18 – 00:20 MVO – ‘Taking over your life?’
00:20 – 00:22 – Music
00:22- 00:28 – ‘Obsession. Ground breaking documentary, Friday, Channel 4, half past 8’
00:28 – 00:30 – ‘What’s yours?’
00:02-00:06 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:06 – 00:08 MVO – ‘Can’t stop thinking about it?’
00:08-00:12 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:12 – 00:14 MVO – ‘Never off your mind?’
00:14-00:18 Documentary Audio – Vox pops
00:18 – 00:20 MVO – ‘Taking over your life?’
00:20 – 00:22 – Music
00:22- 00:28 – ‘Obsession. Ground breaking documentary, Friday, Channel 4, half past 8’
00:28 – 00:30 – ‘What’s yours?’
Audience Feedback
Print Advert Audience Feedback
1. By looking at the picture could you tell what the documentary was about?
Yes No
2. Was everything you needed to know about the documentary on the print advert?
Yes No
3. Were the colours used on the Print advert suitable?
Yes No
4. From looking at the advert would you want to watch the documentary?
Yes No
5. What sort of impression about the documentary does the print advert give you? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Radio Advert Audience Feedback
1. Is the voice used suitable for the documentary?
Yes No
2. Can you clearly understand what the voice over is saying throughout the radio advert?
Yes No
3. Does the radio advert give you all the information you need to know about the documentary?
Yes No
4. After listening to the radio advert would you want to watch the documentary?
Yes No
5. What impression do you get about the documentary after listening to the radio advert? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Documentary Audience Feedback
1. After watching the documentary do you feel that you know more about obsessions?
Yes No
2. Do you think that the music which is used is appropriate for the documentary?
Yes No
3. Did you like the documentary?
Yes No
4. How does it compare to a professional documentary? (Out of 10)
/10
5. Is there anything which could be changed to improve the documentary?
Yes:……………………………………………………….. No
From the audience feedback we received from people after watching our documentary, listening to our radio advert and viewing out print advert the feedback was generally positive. Over 80% of people said they would watch the documentary after hearing the radio advert and 70% would watch it after seeing the print ad. Most people gave the documentary a score of between 7 and 8 out of 10 in comparison to a professional documentary. Changes and improvements that people suggested included the quality of the sound in some of the interviews, which was due to using the camera mic instead of the clip mic in one od the interviews. Another person suggested that we use a different person for the voice over and radio ad as they thought he wasn’t powerful/ engaging enough. Everyone who answered the questionnaire said that they liked the documentary and felt they had learnt more about obsessions from watching our documentary. Most people understood that the documentary was aimed at young adults and understood what the documentary was about.
Monday, 2 January 2012
Analysis of Channel 4 posters
- The Channel 4 logo is on the right hand side
- The title, strapline, date and time are all on there
- There are banners around the words
- There is on big image in the centre
- There isn't much photo manipulation as the picture was taken with a flag behind him
- The Channel 4 logo is on the right hand side
- The words are bannered
- The title, date and time are all on there
- There's no strapline
- The is one big important image with a plane background
- He's carrying teh channel 4 logo
- There isn't much photo manipulation
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Codes and conventions of a print advert
- Channel 4 logo on the right hand side
- 1 important image
- Logo of the documentary
- Few words
- Very little photo manipulation
- Channel 4 sign
- Banners around words
- Picture not from the timeline
Codes and conventions of a radio advert
- Audio clip from within documentary
- Clear and easy to understand
- Same person as the voiceover from the documentary
- Music related to the theme
- Date and time of the documentary
- Broadcasters names
- Strapline
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