In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We looked at examples of back ground music for our documentary for example in super size

me the music tone was upbeat and jolly in order to appeal to a young audience and also mock

the people that where being shown as they where ‘fat’. However in the panorama documentary

the music was more serious, dramatic, orchestral styled. In both documentaries the sound

levels would go up when the narrator/ voice over came on and then would boom back up.

This made the music very dramatic and kept the audience entertained.

The pen tool used to adjust sound levels

When choosing our background music (non digetic sound) we decided to go for a soundtrack that was upbeat, electronic and

fast pace/tempo as we felt this would appeal to our target audience of young adults and up. Therefore challenging the media

convention shown by the panorama documentary as they used serious styled music, we thought however it would bored our

target audience of younger adults and decided that it would be best to change this in order to fit our audience.

When editing our non digetic sound levels throughout our documentary we decided to make the music run all the way through

till the end in order to ensure no silent parts of the documentary as this would make our audience bored or loose attention.

This also helped keep the audience hooked and set a mood for the documentary (upbeat and interesting)

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We used a voice recorder to record our voice over for our documentary.

When recording our voice over we decided to use a young adult male voice alike the other documentaries we had

watched and researched as this allowed our audience to relate to him. We made sure when recording that the pace of

the voice was slow enough to understand and didn’t feel rushed in order to make the documentary sound professional.

We also made the tone of the voice interesting and enthusiastic in order to keep the audience interested and not bore

them.

we edited the sound levels to dip when the voice over was on and then rise back up when it ended. We did this by using

the pen tool on the toolbox at the right hand side this allowed us to rise and in the sound levels of the music track and

any other sound levels such as the Vox pops.

When editing we also found we had to increase the levels of some of the Vox pops in order to hear them clearly enough.

overall we Copied the conventions of panoramas documentary.

pen tool usedSound level rises Sound level dips

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When editing the documentary footage we decided to use fades to black effects to break up the cutaways

from the interviews this also allowed the footage to run smoothly rather than a jolt from cutaways to an interview.

Fade to black effect. placed in-between expert interviews and Vox pops.

We also added titles to the experts as you can see below, this was to inform the audience of who the expert is and what occupation they are in. however we didn't add titles to the Vox pops as they weren't authority and it wasn't Necessary as they where general members of the public so the name wasn’t required as they where speaking on behalf of the public. Therefore this wasconforming to the codes and conventions of real media documentaries such as Panorama.

As you can see we only picked relevant professional styled effects. We didn’t use effects such as the one above called ‘explode’ as we felt it looked unprofessional and we decide to copy professional conventions.

We also added a title for our documentary by going to the effects >text> typewriter, we then went to the options tabs and added the text and edited the font size and style. We decided to use a clear font style with a black background and white text to make it look professional and simplistic.Therefore conforming to the conventions of real media products.

Typewriter effect

Text option

Effects tab

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Font style: Lucinda Grande

Colour: white

Alignment: centre

Font style: Lucinda Grande

Colour: white

Alignment: centre

Font style: Lucinda Grande

We also edited out footage by cutting the clips this made them

shorter. We ended up doing this a lot as we wanted our

documentary to be fast paced therefore we cut the clips

accordingly. As you can see we did this by using the razor

tool and clicking on the footage we wished to cut, to help the

accuracy of cutting our clips we played them and

stopped the clip where we wanted to cut it therefore using the

marker to help use be precise.

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We also used the speed up tool by going to modify>speed. We decided to do this to some of our clips such as the scrolling through website pages cutaways as this made them faster and showed more movement therefore emphasising the fast pace of the documentary therefore conforming to the conventions of a real documentary. By speeding the clips up it also made them shorter adding to the quick pace. We made sure however not to speed up inappropriate clips such as interviews

Here you can see we have cut the last few seconds ofthis clip as it wasn’t needed.

We used the razor tool to cut this clip.

Modify>speed Speeding up a cutaway clip