Began discussing documentaries and what we are going to do throughout the year. We made notes on the 6 main types of documentary;
Fully narrated – an off screen voice over is used to make sense of visuals and anchor their meaning.
Fly on the wall – origins in cinema. The camera is observing real life as it happens. Participants are ‘unaware’ of cameras presents.
Mixed – using a combination of interview, observation and narration to advance narrative.
Self reflective – when person of documentary acknowledges the camera and often speaks straight to the film maker.
Docudrama - a re-enactment of events as they are supposed to of actually happened.
Docusoap – usually occupation based e.g. airline.
We also discussed narrative structure of documentaries which are;
Open and closed – where in open the audience is left to make their own made up as loose ends are left unanswered and in closed all the questions are answered.
Single strand and multi – strand – single just has one narrative and multi has a few.
Linear and non linear – linear follows in chronological order and non – linear is disrupted time e.g. flashbacks.
1. ‘The devil made me do it’
Themes – Good V evil and the power of the media on young people
Narrative structure – single strand, open and non – linear
Camera work- close up of interviewees, first shot of Manson is filmed so that the light is on one side of his face and the other dark representing the good v evil, high angle shots make him look powerful, slow pans are used, lots of shots of religious iconography, POV shot in the press conference, handheld filming (actuality footage).
Mise – en – scene – interviews with police looking important with hat (signifies that he is police), contrast of Manson and what he stands for e.g. goes to MacDonald’s in one of the shots.
Sound – narrator is male and young, no clear accent, voiceovers used to translate Italian, age and gender match visuals, religious coral music.
Editing - juxtaposition of music and image, cross cutting, fade to and from black, creates pace, slow motion.
Archive material – Marylyn Manson’s videos, newspaper and cuttings and Italian news coverage.
Graphics – subtitles of Manson’s songs, dates and times anchors period, title with religious font and the knotting up of loose ends at the end of ‘what happened to the girls.
2. ‘That thing… Lara Croft’
Type – Mixed
Theme – Representation of gender, feminism
Narrative structure – Single strand, closed and non – linear.
Camera work – medium close up of interviewees, big close up of one interviewee, tilted frame with graphic of computer, handheld used to watch people play games, pov shot in games area.
Mise en scene – chromakey is used (blue/green screen), back projection, background (actual game), and front projection (over face).
Sound – soundtrack of game, ray of light by Madonna, game sound effects and a young male voice over.
Editing – cutting, fast motion, fade and montage.
Archive material – footage of game, Nike advert, cuts of film, internet sources and Angelina Jolie interview.
Graphics – sans serif, no capital letters and person name with relevance to subject.
3.Marketing Meatloaf
Type – mixed
Theme – marketing and music industry
Narrative structure – single strand, closed, non – linear
Camera work – establishing shots of location, medium close ups of interviewees, pov shot from person in press conference, wide shot in low angle of entrance onto stage, interviews conducted to the right hand side of screen, focus on brand of meatloaf.
Mise en scene – setting of music videos, brit awards, recording show and studio, glam attire at awards, huge mobile anchors time period.
Sound – people screaming, meatloaf soundtracks, dramatic music to suit visuals, sound effect of heartbeat, dark music to go with rocky pictures.
Editing – dissolve, fade to and from black, super impose, actuality footage.
Archive material – the Brit awards, performances on Brit awards, meatloaf videos, Kerrang magazine, Q magazine, NME magazine, YMCA video.
Graphics – newspapers, white writing, name of person and relevance to subject.
Codes and Conventions of a documentary genre
• Varied shot types
• Handheld camera
• Interviews – close up or medium close up is conventional, stationary camera, eye line id roughly 1/3 of the way down, framed to left or right of shot.
• Establishing shots used
• Pan/zoom on still images
• Pov shot used to include audience.
• Behind interviewees is background of relevance to the subject e.g. chromakey.
• Archive material from a variety of sources e.g. videos, newspapers, and websites.
• Graphics are used to translate were necessary, title is unique, name and relevance to subject (usually 2 lines),
• Always have narrative structure – open, closed, linear, non – linear.
• Mostly always single strand so they don’t confuse audience.
• Voiceovers used in standard English to link everything together
• Age and gender is linked to the programme
• Emotionless voice
• All questions are edited out.
• Music is relevant to topic.
Scheduling
Inheritance – The scheduling of a programme immediately after a popular programme is shown. To inherit audiences.
Hammocking – placing a programme between to popular programmes.
Pre – Echo – scheduling before a popular programme
4. The secrets of Egypt’s lost queen
Theme – Discovery and mystery
Narrative structure – closed, single strand, non – linear.
Camera work – Mostly handheld, Close ups of rocks and caves, Close up on archaeologist, Shot interview in MCU and framed to the right hand side, low angle shots to show archaeologists power, fast pans, high angle shots, extreme close up of artefact's.
Mise en scene – hot dusty desert, dirty clothes anchors class, language anchors location, robes anchor time frame, posh car shoes contrast of poor Egypt, Dark tombs and caves.
Sound – Dark music whilst talking about queens sins, accent is not English, language in re enactments is Egyptian, voice over is middle age man using standard English, exciting music of discovery, drums sound effect, shouting of slaves.
Editing – Cut/Cutting, Fade to and from black, Fade from image to image, Blur, Montage of artefact's, Dissolve from mummy to mummy.
Archive material – Reconstruction of what happened, shots of old statues, museum books, Egyptian logs.
Graphics – white writing, hieroglyphic/eastern font, two lines, name and relevance to subject.
5.The world’s strangest UFO stories
Theme – Science and mystery
Narrative structure – Open, Single strand, Non- Linear
Camera work – panning shots of buildings, low angle shots of buildings, extreme close ups of parts of body, interviews in medium close up, framed to middle of the screen, nightvison recording, tracking forward and backward, long shots of lone man.
Mise en scene – New York (times square), dark labs for testing, eerie woods, suits look official, normal middle class people, background of interview is desert, official government buildings, Accent = Texan, Fake aliens.
Sound – voiceover is young male, standard English, sound effects of UFO’s screams, eerie music, music suits visuals of spaceships, emotion in voice.
Editing – Fast cuts, fast motion, montage of images, blur is used, pan and zoom on pictures, superimposed in front of image of alien, spin effect on images, slow motion.
Archive material – Newspaper articles, tape recordings, autopsies, armature footage of UFO’s, Cartoons, Comic books, Old films, Frankenstein, Man on moon footage, Official files and documents, world/BBC news, ‘David Ikle’ books, magazines.
Graphics – title is very unique in typewriter font, white, shapes before letters appear like code, name and occupation of interviewee, slightly disintegrated writing.
Planning
Task Two - Idea Brainstorm
* Plants
* People
* Animals
* Food
* Cars
* Chocolate
* Babies
* Dinosaurs
* Fish
* Pregnant
* The sky
* Teachers
* Films
* Cinema
* Fashion
* Life
* Holidays
* Discovery
* Eggs
* Crime
* Wealth
* Skadoosh
* Penguins
* Bags and shoes
* Pringles
* Doritos
* Boyfriend
* Tattoos
Task Three
Title - The human canvas
Interviews - People, Celebs, Teachers, Parents, Tattooist.
Archive material - Miami ink, Star face girl, Prison break, Lizard Man.
Actuality footage - Getting a tattoo, Rad filming.
Target audience - 15 to 40
Schedule - Channel 4, 8pm
Audience Profile
This is a typical member of the target audience that i chosen for my documentory. Jade is female, aged 18 years old and lives in Merseyside, England. She attends a 6th form college and is studying for 3 A Levels. Jade drives a Rover Metro and likes spending her time with friends and watching televison. Jade herself, is interested in everything about tattoos and has one on her right shoulder blade. She wishes to have more at some point of her life.
Task four - Questionnaire
1. Are you male or female?
2. Are you? 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-40
3. Have you got a tattoo? if yes what part of your body is it on?
5. What does the word tattoo mean to you?
6. Favourite Colour? Red Blue Green Yellow Black White Other..
7. Do you have a favourite Celebrity/Idol? If yes do they have a tattoo?
8. What is a meaningful image to you?
9. Are you religious? Yes No Undecided
11. Do your parents approve/or have approved of tattoos? If no why?
12. If you do not have a tattoo or you want one, what would you like?
Results
Video of answers;
1) Are you….?
Male – 11 Female – 19
Conclusion: There were 11 males and 19 females that took our questionnaire; because there were more females than males this shows that our documentary will be biased towards the female gender of the audience. We have to take this into account so we don’t overlook the male audience and make the documentary appeal towards both genders equally.
2) What is your age?
Conclusion: Looking at the results, the majority of our audience opinions will rely on people aged 15-19. As the next greater quantity of age lies in the 35-40’s category, we have basically got enough evidence to support both the youngest and oldest age, and this will hopefully account for the lack of information claimed by the other ages in between. Therefore taking this in, we should be able to comprise a documentary relative to every person between the ages of 15-40 – our target audience.
3) What is your occupation?
Conclusion: From the pie chart we can see that our documentary will attract a broad range of audiences we must make sure that we keep the documentary interesting for everyone.
4) Have you got a tattoo?
Yes – 10 No – 20
Conclusion: 2/3rds of the participants answered ‘No’ to this question, which could create a problem within how much interest there is with them from our target population. However, there is the 1/3 of the audience who do have tattoos. This shows that significant proportions have got tattoos and that they are very popular so our subject for the documentary will draw a lot of attention.
Conclusion: The parts of the body which people desire to get their tattoos on are varied, which gives us a greater variety of footage to be able to use (e.g. images of different tattoos in different places).
5) What does the word tattoo mean to you?
Conclusion: Looking at the graph we can see that the word tattoo mostly means to people that it is a picture on a person’s body. The second most popular answer was a life long memory. This shows us that most people don’t see a tattoo as just a picture on the body but rather the picture represents something to the person warring it and different images can mean different things for everyone.
6) What is your favourite colour?
Conclusion: From the graph we can see that most people have the favourite colour red with the colour blue being second. We will incorporate these colours in the documentary so that we attract the people’s attention to it.
7) Who is your favourite celebrity/idol?
Conclusion: we can draw the conclusion that the most idolised celebrities are Cheryl Cole and Beyonce which both have tattoos. From this we could use these two celebrities in our documentary. We would use these celebrities because most people recognise them and this will draw a interest in the documentary.
8) Does your favourite celebrity idol have a tattoo?
Yes – 15 No – 15
Conclusion: From the results we can see that in our documentary we will have to explore some issues regarding to “Does celebrities influence people getting a tattoo”
9) What is a meaningful image to you?
Conclusion: From the pie chart we ca see that we have indeed have a broad audience that might watch our documentary and that each of them has a different meaningful image and that not every image means the same to everyone.
10) Are you religious?
Yes – 6 No – 19 Undecided – 5
Conclusion: From the results we can see that most people are not religious, but this doesn’t mean we can’t have some debate about what different religions think about the idea of getting a tattoo.
11) Do your parents approve/approved of tattoos? If No why not?
Yes – 16 No – 14
Conclusion: From he results we can see another issue we need to address in the documentary which is “Why do parents find that having tattoos is bad”
Conclusion: These results reinforce the issue about parents thinking that tattoos are bad. From the results we can plan questions or plan a segment about the different answers parents give to there children when they as if they can get a tattoo and why is that.
12) If you do not have a tattoo and would like one what would it be.
Conclusion: From the piece chart we can see that tattoos are developing and people don’t want the traditional ones such as a rose. People are starting to come up with there own ideas about what tattoo they want, this is another thing we can discuss in our documentary.
Task 5 - Content of documentary ( Brainstorm)
History of tattoos..
* Origin
* Creator
* First tattoo
* First tool used
* Now and then
* History people with tattoos e.g. Henry 8th
Designs of tattoos..
* Tribal
* Animals
* Names
* Symbols
* Cartoons
* Famous people
* Different languages
* Flowers/Hearts/Stars
* Cover ups
* Make up
Fear..
* Phobias
* Needles
* Pain/Regret
Cultures..
* Chinease
* Arabian
* Indian
* Hebrew
* Hawiaan
* Welsh
* Scottish
* Irish
* American
Symbolism..
* Religion
* Culture
* Beliefs
* Family
* Motto
* Hobbies
Task 6 – Formal proposal
Topic – Tattoos
Type – Mixed
Style – Informal, Funny and chatty
Channel and scheduling – Channel 4, 8pm.
Target audience – 15 to 40
Primary research - Interviews with; General public, a tattooist, Artists, celebrities such as David Beckham, Rhinnna and Cheryl Cole. Cult members, Chavs, Emo’s, Men, Women, Parents. Permission for filming in places e.g. tattoo parlour.
Secondary research – Internet, books, magazines, programmes, television, radio and newspapers.
Narrative structure – Open, single strand, non – linear
Outline of content – Interviews, voxpops, archive material, videos, and photos.
Resource requirements – Digital camera, computer (with appropriate software such as Adobe), body parts, tapes, tripod, video camera.
Task 7 - Research for programme
Primary
Interviews -
* Tattoo Artist in Tattoo shop
* Doctor in GP Practise
* Preist in Church
* Normal people with tattoos
* Headteacher in school
Locations for filming -
* Voxpop in Liscard
* In a car
* Tattoo shop
* Outside
* Library
* School
Props -
* Books
* Articals
* Lizard man picture
* Tattoos
Secondary
* Lizard man
* Star face girl
* Miami ink
* Prison break/momento
* Survey of tattoos ( Rise of tattoos)
* Tattoo magazine
* Books on history of tattoos
* Photos of tattoos
* Henna Tattoos
Task 8 - Running Order
Documentary: The Human Canvas
Channel: Channel 4 - Wednesday
Scheduling: 8.00 – 8.30pm
Duration: 24 minutes
Montage of images of peoples tattoos (music in background = Linkin park - Crawling)
20 seconds
Opening titles (flick through each letter of ‘The Human Canvas’ that’s painted on body parts) display on split screen to show title.
15 seconds
Still images of old history tattoos e.g. military ones. Voiceover asking the question ‘Where did they come from?’
30 seconds
Interview with tattooist – cuts of tools etc
1 minute 30 seconds
Footage of girl getting her tattoo.
20 seconds
Interview with person talking about tattoos, opinions and showing their tattoos
1 minute 30 seconds
Voiceover cut to prison break (show map tattoo) how this glorifies tattoos. Cut to lizard man and voxpop of reactions to him.
35 seconds
Interview with Cheryl Cole on tattoos
1 minute 30 seconds
Interview with Cheryl fan who has copied her tattoo. Her inspiration.
1 minute
Voiceover explaining celebrity craze of tattoos whilst showing cuts of celebs different tattoos
20 seconds
Archive footage and pictures of Hell’s angels and about them. Rock music playing. Voiceover explaining how it makes them individual
1 minute
National identities and the different tattoos that countries get. Pride in their country
40 seconds
Voiceover about Jehovah witness’s with a shot of church.
10 seconds
Interview with a Jehovah’s Witness about not allowing tattoos in their religion.
1 minute
Montage of religious tattoos – voiceover explaining each tattoo
30 seconds
Interview with Muslim man about his views on them
1 minute
Interview with Tattooist. Point of view shot of fast motion around tattoos
40 seconds
Archive material of Miami ink (Hawaiian episode). Shows the tools and the symbolism of their tattoos
2 minutes
Advert Break – 3 minutes
Interview with doctor about tattoo removal. Cuts of removed tattoos
1 minute 30 seconds
Shots of horrible tattoos and shops
30 seconds
Show a tattoo badly removed – Archive material
20 seconds
Interview with person who wants their tattoo removed
1 minute 30 seconds
Voiceover asking if tattoo is an art form, show footage of art and tattoos
20 seconds
Interview with art critic on what he thinks if they are an art form
30 seconds
Show lizard man and tiger man. Voiceover on how people want to look different but other people don’t get it
30 seconds
Voiceover asking where will we be in the future with tattoos? What will they look like?
25 seconds
Total time
24 minutes
Task 9 - Interview Questions
Tattooist interview:
1) How did you get into the profession?
2) When did you get your fist tattoo?
3) What was the longest tattoo you had to make?
4) How have tattoos started?
5) With more celebrities gating tattoos does that increase the number of people who would want one?
6) Do people tend to design there own tattoos now a days or do they still go for the “traditional ones” such as hearts?
7) Have the tools used to make tattoos changed through time?
8) What is your favourite tattoo?
9) How have tattoos changed through time?
10) What do tattoos mean to you?
Person with tattoos interview:
1) When did you get your tattoo?
2) Were you scared of getting a tattoo?
3) What part of your body did you get the tattoo on?
4) Who gave you the idea for the design?
5) Are you planning on getting anymore done?
6) Do any of your closed friends have tattoos?
7) Has a celebrities ever influence you into getting the same tattoo the have?
8) Have your parents agreed to your tattoo or did you get it with out them knowing?
9) Have you ever been disappointed with the tattoo you got?
10) What made you get a tattoo?
Storyboards
Filming
I have started the filming for my documentary. I went to a tattoo shop to conduct an interview with a tattooist. Chelsea came along with me and we asked him the questions that we listed. We also filmed cutaways of the tools, of the chairs and of the paintings around the room. We used a range of shots to film these such as pan and zoom and low/high angle shots. We also had the chance to film a lady getting an actual tattoo done by one of the tattooists which we zoomed closely in on to get the real effect of getting it done. We made sure that the noise of the needle was also heard to create effect.
We managed to successfully film the interview however there were some problems. The microphone, when we listened back rustled and it was over the voice so you could not hear what they were saying. This must have been because the clip microphone was loose on the tattooist’s clothes. Another problem that we had was when the front door of the shop was opened It played a beeping noise into the room that we were in that was very loud and also went over his voice. This then ruined some of the questions that we asked; however, we can just easily edit this out. Overall the interview with the tattooist was a success as it was our first attempt to do and it all went well.
I then conducted an interview with my uncle who has a series of tattoos on his body. I thought he would be a great person to choose as all of his tattoos have meanings behind them. The interview went well and I had no problems with the camera or the microphone. I had to use a microphone that sat on the table, not a clip one, so it picked up less sound but it was still of very good quality. The interview ran very smoothly and I am very happy with the framing and the interview in general. I managed to do this in one attempt and it only took one hour to complete overall.
Chelsea, Radu and I then filmed pictures of navy personnel and army cadets getting tattoos done which relates to the military section of my documentary. We used panning shots and zooms to show off the tattoos and the pictures in them. We had to do this twice as the filming was off and wonky but the 2nd attempt was much better.
Radu and I then also filmed the opening title which was a series of pictures of letters painted on a human body. It spelt out our title ‘The human canvas’. I created it on Photoshop so it looked like a split screen with all the pictures on. We filmed it on a white background and filled the screen with the picture. We made sure that we used a wall that had good lighting and was very bright so that it made the picture stand out. This only took one attempt and went very well.
The entire group then filmed the pictures of the ‘Lizard and Tiger men’ for the documentary. This bit was filmed for our voxpop on people’s reactions to them. At first Radu filmed over one of the questions on the interview with the tattooist with this but luckily it was not a main part of the interview. We made sure the tape was then at the end and then we re filmed it again. It didn’t go well on the first attempt as the camera was very wobbly so we decided to do a 2nd attempt and this was the perfect shots that we will use in the documentary.
Editing
Began the editing process, this included capturing all of the stuff that we have videoed onto Adobe Premier. We started to edit and cut down all of the images and making it into our final 5 minutes. First of all we cut interviews down to just have the footage in that we wanted and we edited out all of the questions so that you could just hear what the tattooist was saying. We did this using the razor tool so get the exaxct point that we wanted to cut. We then Filmed cutways which were going to be used to cover up the jump cuts through the interview and make it seem more seamless and professional.
This shows our opening titles that we have done, including the effects and transitions that we have added in to the sequence. We taken all of the pictures and added them onto the timeline. We then sorted them out into the right order and used a dissolve effect between each picture to make it look more professional. This also shows our music that has been added. To use this music, however, i had to send emails to record companies to ask for there permission to use them. This is the email that i sent below;
Below, shows halfway thorugh editing the editing process. After cutting down fully on questions, interviews, shots and what we want and it is still 6 minutes long which is too long for what it has to be. it has to be approx 5 minutes long all together. This still has to be edited down. Things that we have chosen to edit down are; the voxpop and miltary pictures at the start.
This screenshot below shows us cutting the pcitures of naval tattoos and army men which we filmed ourselves and and is a big part of our production. This had to be cut down to help us reach the 5 minute mark. We cut them down so that they were just short but good cuts with the camera pan in and used effects (cross dissolve) inbetween each of the pictures to give a more professional look to our work. These were then put together to create the first part of our documentory. They were put in the correct order of which our voiceover talks to that the visuals link to the voice.
Below, shows us cutting the cutways for our tattoo interview with Lee. These cutways were used to aviod the major jump cuts from us editing out us asking him questions. These cutaways included shots of art, his tools and the tattoo chair itself. We made sure that when we editted them down with the razor tool they still showed the range of shots that we used. We made sure that all of the cutaways matched what Lee was saying as it would make no sense and look silly if they had nothing to do with what he was saying.
This screenshot below shows editing the voxpop. This included only cutting down to the little bits that we wanted, putting in transitions such as crossfade and making it fit right. we made sure that we only had the best parts in the voxpop as we didnt want it to seem boring. we put in the pictures, this included putting in the pictures of the lizard man, the tiger man and the pretty tattoo to show who the voxpop was all about so that the auidnce wouldnt be left confused. We showed all 3 tattoos which would show the contrast of peoples reactions to them.
Below, shows me editing the sound levels of one of our music tracks using the track volume. The reason for this was we needed to fade it at certain points so that you could hear the interview over the music. Also i used it with the tattooing seqeunce as we wanted the auidence to be able to hear the buzzing noise of the needle more than the music. I used the little sound blobs to lower the music down before it got to the tattoist, Lee, talking. I then could higher the sound levels up when they were needed for example when the end of the interview commences.
This screenshot shows the voiceover that we have added into our documentory. We used a male with a standard Engish voice as our voiceover. We razored it down so that it fitted perfectly into our documetory. We made sure that we left gaps so that it doesnt get confusing for the audience. we had the voiceover as this links too the visuals to make it make sense.
Codes and Conventions of radio trailers and newspaper adverts
We disscussed the codes and conventions of both radio trailors and print adverts
Radio Trailors
1) Has an extract of the programme (Usually the best part)
2) Music (Title sequence music)
3) Has a narrative
4) Questions to be revealed
5) The scheduling
6) Sound effects
This is our finished radio trailor;
This is the script to our radio trailor;
Clip of voxpop with teenagers saying “If he would come up to me I would slap him”, then the woman “He looks a bit scary” then the guy “I don’t like it”.
Start with rock music (paper cut by linking park).
Would you change the way you look for the sake of art? Tattooing has been an art form for centuries, from the small little terse “I love Joe” imprints on the skin to the all out body and face tats. Cut to tattooist interview “Many people have bad opinions of tattoos but yeah I think its art” (in the back ground the sound of a tattoo tool with a buzzing sound). Love them or Loath them they are now more popular than ever. Is it beauty? Is it art? What’s the point? The Human Canvas Wednesday at 8:00 on Channel 4.
Would you change the way you look for the sake of art? Tattooing has been an art form for centuries, from the small little terse “I love Joe” imprints on the skin to the all out body and face tats. Love them or Loath them they are now more popular than ever. Is it beauty? Is it art? What’s the point? The Human Canvas Wednesday at 8:00 on Channel 4.
Print adverts
1) Has the channel logo
2) A tag line/Slogan3) Main title
4)) A main strong key image
5) Scheduling
6) Words kept to minimum
I researched a website that makes advertising for channel four.
http://www.4creative.co.uk/flash/#/print/press_and_poster/
These are some of the adverts that we looked at in class;
This is our finished print advert;
Evaluation
Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In my work i do not think that i have developed or challenged codes or conventions, i have only used them.
In this section i am going to demonstrate how i have follwed the codes and conventions using screengrabs of my documentary and of professional documentories.
The professional documentary that i am going to compare is a tattoo documentary called 'Far beyond tattoos' and this can be found on www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao70rCfibio
Framing
I am going to compare the framing between the interviews in my documentary and the professional one.
My documentary;
Professional Documentary;
The top set of screengrabs show my documentary and the bottom shows a screengrab from the documentary I have chosen ' Far beyond tattoos'. The screengrabs show interviews;
* They are filmed to either the left or right side of the frame to show they are talking to someone.
* They are both filmed in Medium close up or close up.
* They both have the eyeline level in the top third of the shot
* The mise on scene of the interviews are relevant to the person. For exmaple both mine and the professional one are filmed in the tattoo studio infront of thier artwork. They both work as they are in thier own environment.
Graphics
My documentary;
Professional Documentary;
* The graphics are placed at the bottom left hand side of the screen away from the interviewee.
* The same font and colour are used on both of the interviews
* The graphics anchor why the person is in the documentory and thier relevance to the topic.
* A simple and clear font is used
Voiceover/Narration
My documentary;
The video shows the voiveover in my documentory. The voiceover i have used is a male, in the age group that we had chosen for our target audience. The voiceover that we have used is Standard English speaking person who has a very clear accent. we used the same person who did the voiceover on our radio trailor. The voiceover is used as this links all content to create the narrative all together and i have followed all the conventions of a voiceover.
Editing
Below, shows the main tools that we used on premier to edit our documentary
These tools are the ones that we used to cut out the interview questions which is another code and convention of a professional documentary. We made sure that you could only hear what the interviewee was saying. we also cut out any uneccessary background noise.
We were able to cut the cutways to use in the interviews to avoid jump cuts.
In editing we also added in fades, zooms and were able to speed up/slow down any part of the documentary. These are also typical codes and conventions that we followed.
Cutaways
My documentary;
Professional Documentary;
First shot before cutaway
Cutaway showing him tattooing
Cut back to interview.
The use of cutways is an essential in any documentary.
* Both of the documentories cutaways link exactly to what the interviewee is saying
* Both interviews use the cutaways to cover up the jump cuts.
* The cutways are relevant to the topic.
Voxpop
My documentary;
Professional documentary;
The voxpop is gaining random peoples opionions on the subject matter. We follwed thr codes and conventions of a professional voxpop;
* The questions they were asked were cut out so only thier intial reaction is shown
* They are cut down to only have the most interesting parts in
* Are usally short and straght to the point
* Person in the shot also framed to the side and looking outwards to the interviewer
Music
My documentary;
The music that we have used is relevant to the topic that is on the screen. i used a rock song in the tattoo interview which is relevant to the tattooist as that is the type of song that he would listen to and the music that you would hear in a tattoo shop. We used a song that links to memories as that is what the other interview is talking about.
Archive Material
My documentary;
Professional Documentary;
For our documentary we used archive material to 'mix it up' on what we were showing. we used old pictures of navy people and army men getting thier tattoos done which we found on the internet. We used Archive material which would give the viewer more to look at and link it to the topic which is a code and convention of professional documentories.
Narrative Structure
The narrative structure of my documentary is that it is firstly, Open. This is becuase we leave it up to the auidence to make thier own mind up about the point of tattoos.
It is also mixed as it includes a mixture of voxpops, interviews and archive material.
It is also a single strand documentory as it stays with the same storyline throughtout and doesnt stray onto something else.
In additon it is non- linear as it does not go in chronological order of time or anything.
Question 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
I feel that Coherence had been created across all 3 parts of my production, my main product, print advert and my radio trailor.
First of all my title is featured largely across all of my work and is very consistent. It is the main part of my opening titles on the documentory it is made into a prominent picture that stands out to the audience. On my print advert it is shown at the top right hand side of the page and is said on my radio trailor at the end. These all follow the codes and conventions as they are made to stick in the mind of the viewer/listener.
(Main Documentory)
The slogan of the product 'Whats the point?' is featured equally in all 3 of my products. It is said many times in my main documentary, is largly featured in my print and it said in my radio trailor thoughout.
The channel and scheduluing is larger featured in my print advert and my radio trailor. It is not featured in my main documentary. It is placed at the end of my radio trailor so that it sticks to the audiences mind and makes them remember when it is on. Also it it is shown on my print advert at the top so its seen by the viewer.
The voiceover is also very consistent throughout my product as the same person is used in both my documentary and my radio trailor. We used one of the teachers which is a male, who is in our target audience and has a standard english voice.
The main key image that we used in our print advert is a still from a section of our documentary. This is what creates the coherence. We used the image of a girl getting a tattoo done as this is what our documentary is about and its what people will instantly recognise that its about tattoos. This is so that people will recognise that picture when they watch it the documentary. i think that this is a very effective use of images. We also used clips from our documentary in our radio trailor which also creates coherence and is something for the audience to recognise.
The style that we have used is also very consistent thoughout the 3 products. We used quite a dark, rocky theme which links to tattoos as it usally rocky people that have alot of tattoos. We used a dark background on the print advert and we also played rock music throughout the programme. This same music was also played in our radio trailor.
I reasearched into the most popular newspapers and which ones gain the most money to decide which newspapers i will put my print advert on. i also looked into taget audiences to make sure that the majority of my target auidence does read that newspaper. To gain the biggest audience for our documentary the print advert will be shown in the following newspapers;
The newspapers that i have chosen are all young, interesting papers which i feel my print advert will benefit most in.
I also researched into radio stations to find out which ones gained the most listeners and which were the most popular. This will then result in hopefully more pople watching the documentary. I also looked at which ones were within my target audience range. My radio trailor will be played on the following stations;
Question 3
What have you learned from your auidence feedback?
Focus group
We got together a focus group of 23 people that were in our target audience.
We asked the focus group what they thought of our documentary when they had watched it and also their views on our radio trailer and the print advert. We asked them questions first about the documentary.
We were given the following results;
1. Did you enjoy the first five minutes of our documentary?
When asked to raise their hand if they did enjoy it 90% of the focus group did. Only 2 people said they didn’t.
Some of the comments made;
Jessica,21
'It really did looked like a real documentary and looked really professional'
George,24
'Effects between the pictures were really good, they made you sit up and notice what was going on'
Nathan, 32
'Interesting pictures were used and they really worked well with the voiceover'
Richard, 21
From this feedback that we have recieved we can conclude from this question that the documentary we have made is very enjoyable and that we chose a very good voiceover to use. Also that we used really good effects that went really well with that was on the screen. We recieved very positive feedback on this question from our focus group.
2. What bits of the documentary would you change?
These are some of the comments we got;
Amarni, 18
'The music in the second interview was a bit too loud; you couldn’t really hear what they were saying'.
'More of a range of people in the voxpop would have been a bit better, quite limited on opinions'
George, 24
Some conclusions we can make from this question are that we could have lowered the music or used a better track on the interview. In addition, we could have used more of a range of people in our vox pop such as a really elderly lady or really young boy. Overall we didnt recieve too many bad comments from our focus group.
3. Do you think it looks like a professional documentary?
When asked to raise their hand if they thought it did look like a professional documentary 80% said yes they do as it really reminded them of something they have actully watched on televsion. 20% said they didn’t mostly because of the way it was put together.
Some comments that were made;
'Yes, the first bit was really good the way it was slow with the pictures and then it went fast when the music changed'
Hayley,27.
Ellie,19
'It had Good Creative pace like a real documentary'
Heidi, 32
Overall from this question i can conclude that our documentary does actually look like a professional documentary which is something to be proud of. We recieved alot of good feedback on this question as people thought it did look good. The reason that people may not have thought that it looked like a real documentary may have been the effects used to piece things together. In addition we can also conclude that people think the music and visuals have been put together well and really look good.
4. Would you consider watching the rest of the documentary?
'Yes I would, it looks like it would be really interesting to find out more.'
Dean, 30.
Kayleigh,20
'Yes I would as I am interested in tattoos'
'Yes because it looks like it would really delve into the subject and be really entertaining'
Kyle, 23
A total of 100% said that yes they would watch the rest of our documentary which gave use great confidence in our production.
Overall we can conclude that people would really enjoy watching our documentary if they liked just the first five minutes. It shows that people find it very intesresting and would find it interesting to watch.
5. What are your opinions on the product overall?
Hannah, 25
'It was really interesting and a lot of effort has gone into the making of it'
Peter,27
In conclusion, i can say that people did think that it was a really was a professional documentary and that it was really well made. We gained very positive feedback overall on this question from our focus group as they thought it was really good and enjoyed watching the 5 minutes.
We then asked questions on the print advert;
6. What would you expect to see in our documentary having seen the print advert?
Geroge, 24
'Debate – The pros and cons of tattoos'
Is it an art form?
John, 43
Nathan, 32
'What’s the point in having them at all?'
Pauline, 40
Overall we can conclude that the print advert was a success as the feedback we gained pretty much sumed up what our programme was.
We then asked questions on the radio trailer;
7. Does the radio trailer make you want to watch the programme and does it capture your attention?
Yes I would defiantly watch it after the radio trailer. It made it sound really interesting.
Mike,19
'It really pulled me in and I found it really good to listen to'
Hannah, 25
I can also conclude that the radio trailer was also a big success as it really grabbed peoples attention and we got all positive feedback. It also shows that it was really well made and we did a good job.
I then also went and gained some individual feedback from people;
Jon Gresty, 20
Views on the programme;
* Clear voiceover is used and it’s good to listen to.
* Audio and visuals flow really well together and all fit in the right places.
* Very appropriate music, it really fitted well with the theme of it.
* Title screen looked a bit confusing… was hard to understand what it was saying and make out what It was.
Radio trailer;
* It was put together well, very interesting thing to listen to.
* The beginning was unclear but this made you want to watch it and listen to find out more.
When asked what they thought the print advert was about;
* Explanation of why people get them.
Pauline Fay, 37
Views on Programme;
* Defiantly want to watch the rest
* Very clear voiceover
* Title screen didn’t fit screen properly
* Too much wind on voxpop
* Very professional.
Radio trailer;
* Very clear
* Would be very interested to see what it is about.
When asked what they thought the print advert was about;
* It will be all about finding out if tattoo is an art form
Question 4
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
A microphone
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A video camera
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A digital camera
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Adobe Audition
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Adobe Premier Pro
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Adobe Photoshop
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The Internet
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Final Product
This below, is our final and finshed documentary;
'The Human Canvas'
