Megan Hemming Media Evaluation

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A2 MEDIA STUDIES:COURSEWORK EVALUATION MEGAN HEMMING

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A2 MEDIA STUDIES:COURSEWORK EVALUATION

MEGAN HEMMING

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QUESTION ONE: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS

OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS?DOCUMENTARY

Our coursework task was to create the opening 5 minutes of a TV documentary. During our research and planning we looked at all the conventions of a real documentary. Our documentary was one part of a series called ‘SO YOU THINK YOU’RE OLD ENOUGH? Investigating Sex’. We looked at documentaries similar to our own such as ‘THE SEX EDUCATION SHOW’. In order to create a realistic feel about our documentary we included the following methods:

CHANNEL 4 IDENT: This included a voiceover that we recorded ourselves.

MONTAGE: We created a fast paced montage of images that we had photographed ourselves.

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INTRODUCTION: We filmed a short introduction for the documentary which introduced the show. This was then followed by another short montage.

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INTERVIEWS: We interviewed specialist sexual healthcare professionals to get there opinion.

CAPTIONS: We included captions to show the name and profession of the people we interviewed.

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INTERVIEWS: We interviewed some student from Solihull Sixth Form as they are our main target audience.

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INTERVIEWS: We interviewed a parent as well as parents were our secondary target audience.

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QUESTION ONE: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE FORMS

AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS?TV LISTINGS

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In order to create our TV Listings page we researched the common conventions that were often used. We then created our own using these conventions.

HEADING: We create a large eye catching heading to go in the top let corner of our TV Listings, where it is often placed on real TV Listing pages.

CAPTION: We create a caption to draw the readers attention into reading about the documentary.

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INFORMATION: As seen on real TV Listings pages the program title, channel, date and time are often shown in the start of the article.

DROPPED CAP: We used several dropped caps in our article as this was one of the main conventions we noticed when reviewing other listings. They often signal a change in the articles topic.

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PAGE NUMBERS: It is vital that the article has a page number on one of the pages. This is because in a real magazine there would be a contents page where the number would be shown.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: To make our TV Listings look realistic we also included peoples names to show who wrote the article, who took the photograph and who the photograph is of.

MAGAZINE NAME: We included the name of a popular TV Listings magazine in the bottom right corner of the article, this makes the article seem more realistic.

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QUESTION ONE: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE

FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS?RADIO TRAILER

We used Garage Band to create our radio trailer.

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We used a soundtrack from garage band for our backing track.

We also used recordings that we made especially for the radio trailer as well as sound bites from our documentary.

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QUESTION TWO: HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE COMBINATION OF YOUR

MAIN PRODUCT ANDS ANCILLARY TASKS?

As we had 3 tasks, the main documentary and the two ancillary task which were the Radio Trailer and the TV Listings, they all had to link together to show that they were all part of each other. In order to do this we used multiple techniques to ensure that we advertsed the documentary, radio trailer and TV Listings as a brand product.

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Print screen from the documentary

Image from TV Listings Page.

By using the an image of the Documentary presenter on the TV Listings Page, we have created a link.

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Print Screen from the Documentary.

TV Listings Page title.

A link has been made with the title of the Documentary and the title of the TV Listings page. Similar phrasing of words helped us do this.

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Print screen of clips from the documentary.

Print screen from radio trailer, showing sound bites of the above clips from our documentary.

By using sound bites from the documentary in the Radio Trailer, we have created a link as it is allowing the listeners to hear some of what is included within the documentary that it is advertising.

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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE FEEDBACK?

We received feedback from our class for our Documentary, Radio Trailer and TV Listings. For the documentary, the class watched it all together then filled out individual feedback

sheets.For the Radio Trailer and TV Listings a sheet

was filled in where we asked at least 5 people to give one strength and one area for improvement and a mark out of 10.

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DOCUMENTARY

The class watched the documentary together then filled out individual feedback sheets.

Our feedback for this was not great, but we didn’t expect it to be as we know as a group we could have done a lot better. The main issues were the sound levels and

editing, as a group we did struggle with these when creating the documentary.

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RADIO TRAILER

We received average feedback for our radio trailer, receiving mainly scores of 6/7 out of 10. The main area which was suggested to have

improvements was the volume levels throughout the trailer.

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TV LISTINGS

We received very positive feedback from our TV Listings Page. Suggestions such as text alignment and image lighting were made for improvements, but overall we received a very

positive response.

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QUESTION 4:HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN

THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

Throughout the production process of this project we used various technologies to help. These were final cut express, M:Audios, cameras, Garageband, photoshop, indesign, tripods and microphones. We also used comic life and our blogs during this process.

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FINAL CUT EXPRESSWe used this software to create our documentary. These are our

documentary ‘Bins’. They were used to keep all of our footage organized within final cut express.

This is our timeline that we used to order our documentary.

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GARAGE BAND We used garage band to create the radio trailer.

We used recordings that wew had made orselves, soundbites and music.

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IN DESIGNThis software was used to create the TV Listings. This was primarily my task and as this software was used in another media product I was very confident in using it. I feel that

my skills were developed and I did find it very easy to use.

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PHOTOSHOP

This software was used to edit the image for the TV Listings page. Like InDesign, I had used this before so was very confident in using it again. I found it easy to manipulate my image to get it how I wanted it. I feel that I could have done more editing on the face though just to get a cleaner finish.

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COMIC LIFE

In order to begin creating our documentary we created a storyboard in comic life to plan our documentary.

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BLOGGERTo keep track of our actions we used blogger.com to record what we did and to show our research.

PRINT SCREENS FROM OUR BLOG

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OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

As well as all the computer software we used technologies such as microphones, M:Audios, Cameras and Tripods in order to create our documentary, Radio Trailer and TV Listings page.

VIDEO CAMERA AND TRIPOD: I think that we could have tried to be more creative with the camera and we should have used it with the tripod more often to get more of a steady camera shot. We should have also used our filming time more constructively and organised the properly instead of just going straight out with only a vague idea of the footage we wanted.

M:AUDIOS AND MICROPHONES: I think that we used this quite well as we had already used them in previous projects therefore were familiar with the way they worked. One mistake we did make was not listening to the recording before finishing and uploading the files to the computer, because of this we had to re-record a few things.