Graphics
We created graphics as we where editing to show who the person who is being interviewed was to give the audience an idea of who they are watching therefore the graphics connote relevance to the topic. Their profession is related to what they are talking about and why they are included in the documentary.
Framing
We framed our interviews to either the left or the right of the screen as professional documentaries do. The eye line is a third of the way down the screen as my example is, they are also looking at who is asking the questions which is what we advised our three interviewees to do
Establishing shots
In our documentary we used an establishing shot in order to introduce Jules (IT expert) which is what has been done in this real documentary. The establishing shot establishes something about the person and the relevance of the topic.
Cutaways
Cutaways are used for when there are jumps from cutting out questions in interviews, the cutaways also have relevance to what the interviewee is talking about. In our documentary we constantly used cutaways as this is a convention of documentaries. We used them throughout interviews where relevant, the cutaways where relevant to what was being said in the interview.
Archive Material
In our documentary we used archive material when talking about celebrites, material that we could not get ourselves so we used the internet in order to acsess clips of archive footage.
Music
During our documentary we used two different songs. We used Virtual insanity by Jemriquai and Whos watching me by Rockwell and Lilly Allen Smile as a professional documentary would do i emailed the record label to ask permission to use their songs as a part of the documentaries non diegetic sound.
Audience Feedback
As a part of our audience feedback we put together a focus group in order to help evaluate our production. We asked different questions about all three products the documentary, radio trailer and the print advert.
After listening to our radio trailer would it make you want to watch our documentary and why?
100 percent of the focus group said they would watch the documentary after they listened to the trailer.
They said:
• The voiceover caught their attention.
• It links to the print as the same slogan and the same information was used.
• It flows well in terms of what the voice over was saying to when clips from the documentary where used.
• The voiceover was appropriate for the content.
After seeing the print advert would it make you want to watch our documentary and why?
17 out of 20 people said that the print advert caught their attention and would make them want to watch the documentary
This is a member of our target audience who gave feedback about our radio trailer, print advert and our production.
They said:
• The slogan engaged them into the product and that it was a strong and a relevant slogan that linked to the content in our documentary.
• The image was strong and the colours worked well together.
• The font of ‘virtual insanity’ was good as it looked as if it had been typed which also links to the content of the documentary.
How effective do you think our production is in terms of how entertaining it is?
90 % of our target audience said they thought our documentary was entertaining.
This is another member of our target audience who gave feedback about our radio trailer, print advert and our production.
They said:
• The use of celebrities in the five minutes was effective
• The archive material was attractive particularly Lilly allen's video
• However it was not something they would choose to watch as they found certain aspects not to be of interest to them.
How effective do you think our production is in terms of its technical elements e.g. continuity, editing and sound. ?
15 out of 20 people said they enjoyed the use of the technical elements used in the five minutes of the documentary.
This is the third member out of the 20 people we asked of our target audience who gave feedback about our radio trailer, print advert and our production.
They said:
The production over all flowed well.
The use of the effects where interesting (cross dissolves).
The use of the music was good however in parts it was too loud which made the voice over hard to hear.
How effective do you think our documentary is compared to real documentaries?
100 % of the focus group said that there where many elements to the five minutes that looked professional compared to real documentaries.
This is another of the 20 people we asked for feedback about our radio trailer, print advert and our production.
They said:
· The interviews where good compared to other documentaries.
· The use of how the graphics faded in and out looked professional on the interviews.
· The setting (mise-en-scene) of the interviews was good as they related to the occupation of the people being interviewed.
How effective do you think our production is in terms of how informative it is?
100 % of the focus group thought the that the documentary was very informative including relevant information for the topic we have chosen.
This is the next member of our target audience who gave feedback about our radio trailer, print advert and our production.
They said:
I thought the documentary was reasonably informative however it is not something I would choose to watch therefore I found parts to be irrelevant to me personally.
I thought the interviews where very detailed and the questions you must of asked where good as they gave enough information.
The information about celebrities and the influence they have engaged me especially.
In conclusion
• We learned that we could have worked more on the editing in order to make it professional.
• We learned that we could have used something in the documentary to attract more of an audience
• We learned that we could have used more effects as that is something that engaged the audience
• We learned that we could have possibly made interviews shorter to maintain audience attention.
• We learned that we could have used a more creative technique for our opening titles.
How did you use media technologies in the construction, planning and evaluation stages?
We used a tripod when filming our five minutes to ensure steady camera work and the use of different effective camera work and also to frame interviews correctly.
We needed to use two different types of camera during the production of our documentary. An editing camera so we could capture footage from our tapes and a camera to film our footage for our five minutes.
During my coursework I used a stills camera to take photographs for our print advert and evidence of filming to include in my blog.
For my coursework a computer was needed to edit, use Photoshop, plan the documentary and to update my blog and upload photos. The internet was also used to get archive material and to upload data and update my blog.
For interviews we had to use a clip microphone to improve the sound quality.
During the evaluation stages we also used voice recorders to get the audience feedback.
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
Our documentary is on BBC one, all three products link together in terms of the scheduling of the channel as the radio trailer will be on BBC stations.
The title of the two visiable products include the same font therefore the two products links together and form some kind of coherence between the two.
‘Who’s watching you’ slogan links two of the products together. The slogan is used both in the print and also in the radio trailer said by our voiceover. The voiceover in our five minutes is the same as our radio trailer. We did this deliberately so that the two link together.
As our print advert will appear in newspapers to complete the advertisement of our products along with the radio advert we have included the same slogan as the radio advert to link the two together. ‘Virtual Insanity’ has the same font as the opening titles in the documentary which also links the two products together. The print advert would appear in major newspapers such as the daily mail, the times and the independent.
The time and the day that the documentary will be shown links to our target audience. Our target audience are mainly parents 25+ which is why we decided to show our documentary after the watershed. The radio and the print advert link together as they both indicate the scheduling and the channel that the documentary is shown to ensure we target our audience and attract them to the documentary.
