Bethan Thompson - A2 Media

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation question 2

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The video about is a clip from the radio trailer showing the scheduling.

The above audio clip shows how we used part of the documentary in the radio trailer.

The above clip is the starting of our radio trailer and shows how we made it unique.

Monday, 12 December 2011

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation question 3

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The above clip is a video of a target audience member giving feedback on our documentary, radio trailer and newspaper advert.

The pictures below show a group feedback session where a group of 15 people sat and evaluated our documentary, radio trailer and newspaper advert.

The question we asked them are shown below:

1. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not very interesting and 5 being very interesting, how interesting was our documentary? ( Please Circle)

1 2 3 4 5

2. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not very entertaining and 5 being very entertaining, how entertaining was our documentary? ( Please Circle)

1 2 3 4 5

3. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not very eye catching and 5 being very eye catching, how eye catching was our print advert? ( Please Circle)

1 2 3 4 5

4. On a scale of 1-5, 1 being not very similar to professional documentaries and 5 being very similar to professional documentaries, how professional was our documentary? ( Please Circle)

1 2 3 4 5

5. Did you enjoy watching our documentary? Why?

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6. On a scale of 1-5 how much did the print advert make you want to watch the documentary? 1 being not a lot and 5 being a lot. (Please circle)

1 2 3 4 5

7. Did you think the voiceover suited the documentary and radio adverts’ target audience? (Please circle)

Yes No

8. Did the five minute clip make you want to watch the whole of the thirty minute documentary? (Please circle)

Yes No

9. On a scale of 1-5 how much did the radio advert make you want to watch the documentary? 1 being not a lot and 5 being a lot. (Please circle)

1 2 3 4 5

10. Do you think that channel four is a suitable channel for our documentary to be scheduled on and why?

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11. Do all of the media texts fit into the topic of convenience food? Please explain

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12. Do you think that 8:30 on a Thursday is a suitable time and day to show our documentary?

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13. Please list three topics you would have liked us to discuss in our documentary?

14. Does the documentary run smoothly? For example, do the topics flow nicely from one to the next? (Please circle)

Yes No

15. Are the interviews easy to hear and easily understandable?

Yes No

16. Do you think that the interviews are interesting and very suitable to the topics?

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Screengrabs of Photoshop

The screengrabs below are taken of Photoshop when we were creating our print advert.

Sketch of Print Advert

Today in the lesson we drew up a sketch of what we want our print advert to look like. The picture is below:

Codes and Conventions of Newspaper Advertisments

As a class today we went through and came up with the codes and conventions of newspaper advertisements, these are bullet pointed below:

The title of the documentary is clearly displayed and does not blend in with the main image.
The text is ontop of a box to make it stand our more clearly.
The advertisement has the logo of the channel that the programme will be shown on.
There is a main image which is relevant to the topic of the programme, it is normally eye-catching and creates a narrative.
The scheduling of the programme is also shown on the advertisement.
The image fills the entire poster.
There is a slogan which anchors the show, it is short and catchy.

Screengrabs from editing radio trailer

Whilst we were editing our radio advert we took screen shots of the process, these are below:

Photographs from filming voiceover

The photographs below are takem from when we recorded our voiceover.

Radio Advert

1: I get it twice a week

2: I get it once a week

3: I get it once a day

4: I only get it once a month

45% of people in the UK like the taste of fast food too much to give it up.

Families spend an average of £3.40 per head on fresh vegetables per week but are willing to spend £4.20 per head on takeaway foods.

Takeaways are now a staple part of the British diet, with families consuming at least one takeaway per week.

Clip from Asda interview – 00:00:47:21- “I know I can get takeaway food from supermarkets but also from takeaway outlets and I would probably use both of those.”

Are you what you eat?

At your convenience, Thursday, 8:30, channel 4

Friday, 18 November 2011

Codes and Conventions of radio adverts

Today in the lesson we looked at the codes and conventions of radio adverts, in groups we came up with a list:
The codes and conventions of radio trailers are:

They last for 30-40 seconds
There is a sound bed used behind the main speaking in the advert
There is an indirect link to the documentary- for example the idea of the documentry will be followed in the advert but it still keeps the adience wondering what the programme is about so that the audience is more intrigued to watch it.
There is a summing up of the information at the end of the advert, which is usually the same voice as the voiceover in the documentary. This includes the title of the programme, the time that it will be shown and the channel that the programme is on.
The advert includes clips from the documentary
There are at least two different voices in the advert, one of which is the voiceover from the programme.
Sometimes sound effects are used in the radio adverts
The tone of the advert is usually informal although depending on the genre of the documentary, this can vary.
The voices in the advert have clear pronunciation and a standard accent
The target audience is adressed in the advert.
The voiceover anchors the advert
The voiceover includes the audience through the use of rhetorical questions
The slogan of the documentary is said in the advert.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

45% of people in the UK like the taste of fast food too much to give it up. Most families spend £3.40 on fresh vegetables per head a week, but they spend up to £4.20 on takeaway. In the UK, over 277 million portions of chips are sold per year and 15% of the UK’s population visits a fish and chip shops on a weekly basis. It certainly looks like the takeaway is here to stay.

(25secs)

Voxpops

Interview with Asda

Archive material of Gavin & Stacey

Takeaway is one of the largest growing types of convenience foods, with families on average consuming at least one takeaway per week. Most people have 7 different types of takeaway within walking distance of their homes but Indian and Chinese style takeaways the most popular.

(15secs)

Interview with the big cod

Interview with mark

The majority of Chinese chip shops also sell fish and chips as one of their main products but are still many takeaway shops which believe in only selling the traditional English meal of fish and chips, these types of shops disagree with the fact that Chinese takeaways are also selling fish and chips because they feel they are less capable of making the British dish at a good quality. Supermarkets sell Takeaway Bags which include a side dish and a main meal in Indian and Chinese styles.

(29secs)

Photographs taken during the editing process

The photographs and screengrabs below were taken during the process of editing our documentary, radio trailer and newspaper advert.

Edit Decision List

Today in the lesson we completed an edit decision list, this is where we decided what footage we were actually going to use in the first 5 minutes of the documentary.