1. A2 MEDIA STUDIES:COURSEWORK EVALUATION MEGAN HEMMING

2. QUESTION ONE:IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE FORMS ANDCONVENTIONS OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS?DOCUMENTARYOur coursework task was to create the opening 5 minutes ofa TV documentary. During our research and planning welooked at all the conventions of a real documentary. Ourdocumentary was one part of a series called SO YOU THINKYOURE OLD ENOUGH? Investigating Sex. We looked atdocumentaries similar to our own such as THE SEXEDUCATION SHOW. In order to create a realistic feel aboutour documentary we included the following methods: CHANNEL 4 IDENT: This included a voiceover that we recorded ourselves.MONTAGE: Wecreated a fast pacedmontage of images thatwe had photographedourselves. 3. INTRODUCTION: We filmed a shortintroduction for the documentary whichintroduced the show. This was then followedby another short montage. Space for comparison image. Of the above^^^^^ 4. INTERVIEWS: We interviewed specialistsexual healthcare professionals to get thereopinion.CAPTIONS: We includedcaptions to show the name andprofession of the people weinterviewed. Space for comparison image. Of the above^^^^^ 5. INTERVIEWS: Weinterviewed some student fromSolihull Sixth Form as they areour main target audience. 6. INTERVIEWS: Weinterviewed a parent as well asparents were our secondarytarget audience. 7. QUESTION ONE:IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE FORMSAND CONVENTIONS OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS? TV LISTINGS 8. In order to create our TV Listings page we researched thecommon conventions that were often used. We then createdour own using these conventions.HEADING:We create a largeeye catchingheading to go in thetop let corner of ourTV Listings, where itis often placed onreal TV Listing pages. CAPTION: We create a caption to draw the readers attention into reading about the documentary. 9. INFORMATION: Asseen on real TV Listings pagesthe program title, channel, dateand time are often shown in thestart 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. 10. 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 includedthe name of a popular TV Listings magazine inthe bottom right corner of the article, thismakes the article seem more realistic. 11. QUESTION ONE:IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL LIFE MEDIA PRODUCTS?RADIO TRAILERWe used Garage Band to create our radio trailer. 12. We used a soundtrack from garage bandfor our backing track. We also used recordings that we made especially for the radio trailer as well as sound bites from our documentary. 13. QUESTION TWO:HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE COMBINATION OF YOURMAIN 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. 14. Print screen from the documentaryImage from TV ListingsPage.By using the an image of theDocumentary presenter on theTV Listings Page, we havecreated a link. 15. Print Screen from the Documentary. TV Listings Page title.A link has been made withthe title of theDocumentary and the titleof the TV Listings page.Similar phrasing of wordshelped us do this. 16. Print screen of clips from thedocumentary. 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.Print screen from radio trailer,showing sound bites of the aboveclips from our documentary. 17. 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 feedbacksheets. For the Radio Trailer and TV Listings a sheetwas filled in where we asked at least 5 peopleto give one strength and one area for improvement and a mark out of 10. 18. DOCUMENTARY The class watched the documentary together then filled out individual feedbacksheets.Our feedback for this was not great, but we didnt expect it to be as we know as agroup we could have done a lot better. The main issues were the sound levels andediting, as a group we did struggle with these when creating the documentary. 19. 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 haveimprovements was the volume levels throughout the trailer. 20. TV LISTINGSWe received very positive feedback from our TV ListingsPage. Suggestions such as text alignment and image lightingwere made for improvements, but overall we received a verypositive response. 21. QUESTION 4: HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTHE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNINGAND EVALUATION STAGES?Throughout the production process of thisproject we used various technologies to help.These were final cut express, M:Audios,cameras, Garageband, photoshop, indesign,tripods and microphones. We also used comiclife and our blogs during this process. 22. FINAL CUT EXPRESSWe used this software to create ourdocumentary.These are ourdocumentary Bins. Theywere used to keep all ofour footage organizedwithin final cut express.This is our timeline that we used to orderour documentary. 23. GARAGE BANDWe used garage band to create theradio trailer.We usedrecordings thatwew had madeorselves,soundbites andmusic. 24. IN DESIGN to create the TV Listings. This was primarily my task and as this This software was usedsoftware 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. 25. PHOTOSHOPThis software was used toedit the image for the TVListings page. Like InDesign,I had used this before sowas very confident in usingit again. I found it easy tomanipulate my image to getit how I wanted it. I feel thatI could have done moreediting on the face thoughjust to get a cleaner finish. 26. COMIC LIFE In order to begin creating our documentary we created a storyboard in comic life to plan our documentary. 27. BLOGGERTo keep track of ouractions we usedblogger.com to recordwhat we did and toshow our research.PRINT SCREENS FROM OURBLOG 28. 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 thinkM:AUDIOS AND MICROPHONES: Ithat we could have tried to be more think that we used this quite well ascreative with the camera and we we had already used them inshould have used it with the tripodprevious projects therefore weremore often to get more of a steadycamera shot. We should have alsofamiliar with the way they worked.used our filming time moreOne mistake we did make was notconstructively and organised thelistening to the recording beforeproperly instead of just going straight finishing and uploading the files toout with only a vague idea of the the computer, because of this wefootage we wanted.had to re-record a few things.