Print advert

Today in class we decided on what we want to do for the print advert. First we thought of a happy thought of when you little and draw a picture of someone sitting on a hill with sun and clouds. We then went onto carrying on with the cake theme, and decided on the slogan to be 'Whats the icing on your cake?' We then though of a few plans that we could do for a print advert.

Here below is a few of are sketches then we done:

Here below is the first cake that we took picture of:

Here are the pictures of me taking the photoes of the cupcake:

Codes and Conventions of Radio adverts and Print adverts

Codes and conventions for a print advert

• Channel logo
• Picture of the programme
• Programme title in the box
• Scheduling
• Slogen/ description of the programme
• Words kept to minimum

Codes and conventions for a radio advert

• Average length approx 40 second
• What channel
• Clips from the programme
• Narration on a form of a voiceover. To show what its about (outline only)
• Posed questions that will be answered in the show
• Occasionally music bed

Voiceover

Today we recording the voice over for the documentary. We used a women's voice as we thought it was nice and soothing and went with the theme of happiness.

Here below is the script that we used for the documentary

What i happiness? Many people today crave this emotion But what exactly are the ingredients? Is or having power? or is it imply good health.

In November 2010 David Cameron is using government funding to find out what it is that drives the nations happiness. We want to explore in depth the vital compounds that enable teenagers adults and the elderly to feel these emotion in contrast with 10 years ago.

How could having power over one nation drive a persons happiness? However cause so much destruction and devastation for million of innocent people around the world? Adolf Hitler born in Austria in 1889 became leader of the Nazi party in 1921, but why did Hitler use his new power over Germany to set up concentration camps for the organised killings of millions of Jews.

Father David Long, a parish priest now gives his religious feelings towards the subject of what i happiness.

Radio Adverts

Today we wrote the script out for the voice over for the radio advert. To do this we used the schools radio studio. We then used adobe audition to record into and edited in adobe primer pro.

Below is the script for the radio trailer.

In society today we rank happiness above all but what i happiness?
Is it having ultimate control, a fulfilling job, the perfect images or good health
Find out on channel 4 as we burst the bubble of happiness on Tuesday at 8pm.
Pursuit of happiness, whats the icing on your cake?

Edit Decision List

Rushes

Here below are the rushes

Sky Cutaway - 1 Minute Good Take? No
Vending Machine cutaway - 4 Seconds Good Take? Yes
Voxpops Liscard - 1 minute Good Take? Yes
Liscard cutaways - 2 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Bob Duncan interview - 6 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Bob Duncan Cutaways - 3 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Natasha Interview - 3 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Natasha cutaways - 1 Minute Good Take? Yes
Definitions / Dicionary cutaways - 2 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Natasha cutaways / craft - 5 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Psychologist interview - 4 Minutes Good Take? No
Psychologist cutaways - 1 Minute Good Take? Yes
Interview with Father David Long - 7 Minutes Good Take? Yes
Father David Long Cutaways - 2 Minutes 10 seconds Good Take? Yes
Cake opening sequence - 13 Minutes Good Take? Yes

Opening sequence

Today in class we recorded are opening sequence. We used cupcakes, sugar and a black sheet as are props. Using stop animation we are going to get the cupcakes to bounce into place spelling out the words happiness. Then the H from happiness is going to spell out pursuit of and that is how we will get are title sequence across.

Here below are some pictures of when recording.

Interview with David Long

Today we went to interview father David Long. This was to get a religous point of view of happiness.

Here below are the questions that we asked him
1. What is happiness to you?
2. When are you at your happiest?
3. Do you think people seek happiness through religion
4. Do you think people can be happy without religion?
5. Do you think money can more people happy?
6. Do you think think people in this society link happiness to instand gratification. If so, why?
7. Do you think theres a difference between contement and happiness?
8. In modern society, do we value indivdual happines too highly?

Here below are some of the images that we took when doing the interview.

Interview with psychologist

Interview with psychologist

Here are the questions that we asked him
1. What is happiness to you?
2. Can you explain to a psychological theory to the key of happiness?
3.Are there any types of theories that can increase levels of happiness?
4. What can triggers sadness?
5. Would you consider happiness to be a psychological matter or a social matter? and why?

Bob duncans interview

Questions with Bob Duncan

1. When you were younger what typical thing would make you happy?
2. Today what typical things make you happy?
3. What is happiness to you?
4. How do you think happiness effects people?
5. What three words come into your mind when said happiness?
6. What time of the day are you most happy and why?
7. Do you think that money can make you happier?
8. What has been the happiest day of your life so far?

Here are some photos of us doing the interview

Interview with natasha

Question with Natasha

1. What types of things make you happy?
2. What do you think will make you happy when your older?
3. what do you want to be when your older?
4. Do you think that it will make you happy?
5. Do you think money makes you happy?
6.What songs put you in a good mood?
7. What time of the day are you most happy and why?
8. Do you think what makes you happy now will be the same in 5 years time?
9. What is the happiest day of you life so far?

Here are some photos of doing the interview

Planning

Here are are planning and storyboards of the opening sequence and the interviews that will be shown in the first five minutes.














Here is the story broad for the interview on Natasha Lopez. This will be in her bedroom as we then have mise en scene.

















This is the storyboard for the interview with Rochelle. The mise-en-scene in this scene will be used by the park and her friends in the background.















Here is the interview with Bob Duncan. This interview will be in his house in his front room. By a table with pictures so see some of his happy memories.
















This is the interview with a vicar






















This is the storyboard for the opening sequence. This will be filmed in a local shopping center to get the mise-en-scene of everyday life.

Running order

Opening

Cutaways of people on transport, walking through the street, people eating fast food, people shopping. Long shots
10 seconds

Voxpops of what is happiness to you? Head shots
5 seconds

Bus with opening title drives past, Tilt frame Low to High
10 seconds

Narrator begins to define happiness. Onscreen panning of definitions in the dictionary. Cutaways of plastic surgery
20 seconds

Bob Duncan interview – Mid shot
1 minute

Natasha Lopez interview – Mid shot
1 minute

Cutaways – Narration, Newspaper cuttings - panning
20 seconds

Images of Hitler – Narration to introduce topic then digetic sound of Hitler’s speech in background zooms into archive material of Hitler at his most famous speech saying “German people are Happy”
1 minute

Interview with Psychologist; Mr De expressing a psychological perspective of happiness- mid shot
1 minute

Voxpop
20 seconds

Interview with Rochelle Noble – mid shot
1 minute

Archive footage of Britney Spears with Narration
2 minutes

Videos and images of people on a night out – Happiness amongst the youth
30 seconds

Interview with Natasha Lopez
1 minute

Interview with Bob Duncan
1 minute

Interview with philosophy teacher – Philosophical point of view
1 minute

Voxpops in local shopping centre
30 seconds

ADVERT 3 minutes

Interview with priest in Church about the views about happiness
1 minute

Interview with Rochelle Noble
1 minute

Narrations introducing Alan Sugar – does money make people happy?
20 seconds

Interview with Alan Sugar – With cutaways and archive material from his youth
2 minutes 30 seconds

Narrative voice introducing Hitler again
20 seconds

Clips and archive material of Hitler
30 seconds

Voxpops – Picture shown to the public questioning whether they though Hitler was happy?
30 seconds

Interview with Danielle Lloyd and archive material – Does money make people happy?
1 minute 30 seconds

Science of happiness – Narration – fast motion around the laboratory
1 minute

Talk about mother Theresa bringing happiness and kindness
1 minute

Narration – what makes people happy? With cutaways
1 minute

Narration concluding documentary with montage of images
1 minute
Closing credits
30 seconds

Formal proposal for documentary

Topic:
Happiness- Pursuit of Happiness

Type of documentary:
Mixed
The reason out documentary is going to be mixed is because it will contain voxpops and voice over’s.

Style of documentary:
Informal

Channel scheduling:
Channel 4 8pm Tuesday - The reason for this is that channel 4 shows docusoaps 8pm until 9pm, we could be shown at 8pm to 8:30pm with another show on afterwards, we also inherit the audience from the channel 4 news.

Target Audience:
Families as we are showing are documentary prewatershed

Primary research needed:
• Bob Duncan
Location will be at his house in his backroom.
Mise-en-scene used will be photos of him when he was younger in the background.
Props will be him drinking tea to make him look more relaxed and at home.

• Mr De
Location will be in a school psychology room in a school.
Mise-en-scene used will be books and posters and the smart board will be on.
Props that will be used is a fake brain, pen, books and he will also be wearing formal attire.

• Mr Hart
Location will be a re room in a school.
Mise-en-scene will be Books, posters and smartborad.
Props- Bible, Pen, will also be wearing smart attire.

• Vicar
Location will be in a church.
The mise-en-scene that will be used will be on the stage also set candle out.
Props will be Candles and vicar attire.

• Natasha Lopez
Location will be in Natasha bedroom
Mise on scene will be created by the TV on in the background, her teddies .around and the way the room had been decorated.
Props that will be used are laptop, TV, iPod, teddies.

• Rochelle Noble
The location will be at the park.
Therefore the mise-en-scene can be created by the trees and the swings.
Props will be the swing.

Secondary Research:
• Archive material
• Hitler’s speech
• Pictures of Bob Duncan when he was younger
• Alan Sugar
• Danielle Lloyd
• Britney spears when she was in crossroads and younger and now
• Mother Theresa
• Quote from radio from when it is a happy day
• Music such as walking on sunshine, don’t worry be happy, Happy days, Pack up.
• Newspaper article about happiness or recession.
• Dictionary
• Happy definitions.

Narrative Structure:
Liner
Multi strand

Outline of content :















Recourse:
• Camera
• Video camera
• Tape recorder
• Tripod
• Mica phone
• Newspapers
• Internet
• Computer
• Books
• Definitions
• Adobe premier

Questionnaire analysis

Here is my questionnaire alalysis


Here are the audios that I took of people answering my questionnaire

Questionnaire

Questionnaire

Today in class me and my group talked about what questions we want to ask in are questionnaire. The following below is are final draft of what we came up with. The reason for these questions are because we thought these questions would help us when putting are final project together.

1. What age are you?
U14
15 –19
20– 24
25 – 30
30+

2. Are you male or female?
Male
Female

3. What is your favourite colour?

4. Do you usually watch documentaries?
Yes
No

5. What 3 words would summarise happiness to you?

6. Are you happy?
Yes
No

7. What makes you happy?

8. What makes you unhappy?

9. What songs make you happy? List Two.
1....................................................................
2....................................................................

10. Do you think the more money you have the happier you are?
Yes
No

11. Does the weather affect your mood?
Yes
No

12. How?

13. What time of the day do you feel happiest?
Morning
Daytime
Evening
Night

14. What time of the day do you feel least happy?
Morning
Daytime
Evening
Night

15. What type of documentaries do you watch?
Nature
Sport
Real
Life
Investigation

Brain storm for topic of documentary

Today in class me and my group sat together to discuss what we could come up for are documentary. We only came up with a few ideas as one of are first ideas we became very passionate about. In the end we came up with happiness, and were able to write down ideas about happiness in that lesson. Below is the screen graph of the different ideas that me and my group came up with to do with happiness.

Here is a picture of one half




















Here is the picture of the other half of are brain storm




















Here is the full shot of the topic brain storm

Scheduling

The following are the different types of schedules that are shown on TV. They are written in order of when shown.
· Breakfast
· Daytime
· Children’s
· Prime or peck
· Post watershed

These obviously have different target audiences below is who is the target audiences for each.
· Children, working people and parents
· Older people and the unemployed
· Children and parent
· Families
· Adults and teenagers.

The most popular genres shown of TV are following:
· Sitcom
· Soaps
· Documentaries
· Film
· News
· reality TV

I then looked at who is the target audience for each channel
· BBC1- Everyone
· BBC2- Minority
· ITV1- Adults
· Channel 4- Minority
· FIVE- Everyone

Many channels show repeats so when then looked at what percentage on each channel are repeats
BBC1- 3%
BBC2- 50+%
ITV1- 3%
Channel 4 – 50+%
FIVE- 50+%

We then looked at what watershed is and what time it starts.
The watershed is from 9pm onwards were its issued children re in bed. It is for late teens and adults. However it is getting closer to 10pm because children are trying up later.

Enherative- put after an establishing programme to try and get their audience. E.g. Simpsons to family guy
Pre-echo – schuelding a programme before the popular programme.
Hammoening- Programmed put in-between two popular programmes.

documentary

The marketing of Meatloaf - 'The music biz'

Type of documentary: Mixed documentary (parts of it fly on the wall to make it more authentic)

Themes:
The music industry
Meatloaf - the comeback
The making of a music video
Marketing of a celebrity
Manipulation of audience
The channels you have to go through to be number one.

Camerawork:
Opening shot - low angle panning down to set the scene
Camera tracking to follow the event as it happens
Zooming in to certain objects/people to reiterate what they are talking about.
Hand held camera work used in the press areas
Lots of observation of the situation used.
Quick cuts of achieve material.
It flicks between the filing of the video archieve materials.
The filming of the interview is conventional - medium close up or close up or extreme close up used.
Point of view shot used in the bookies.
Panning and zooming is used a lot.


Mise-en- scene :
Brit awards - fans - celebrities- this shows it are a music documentary.
Still images used being interviewees to not take away for what they are saying.
Images changed to anchor the message.
Studio background used during the interview of meatloaf this shows he is a very hard working and driven man.
Chromacky is used a lot - blue and green screen.

Sound:
Narrator - male voice over using a dry and sarcastic tone. Use of Standard English.
Noise of fans screaming
Meatloaf’s music placed throughout
Negative sounds placed with the man talking about 'the bad out of hell two'
Music finishing off narrators sentence 'moving on up'
Tense music used when going up the chart.

Editing:
Cutaways to images - stills and moving
Interviewees faced in and out.
Text also faded in and out.
Text moving across the screen
Cut editing used.
Fast motion editing used out MTV
Editors also use slow motion
They have conventional editing during interviews for example no questions were asked.

Archive Material

Brit wards 1994
Still and moving images of Meatloaf.
TV show footage
Slow motion as the concert is being performed
Zooming in on a past article
Top of the pops footage
Montage of magazines and newspapers on Meatloaf - extreme close up.

Graphics :
Graphics to introduce who is talking- placed at bottom of the screen on the alternate side of the interviewee in white writing and sans sarif font.
The title ran across the screen
And it had rolling credits at the end.

Documentary Analysis

Title of Documentary Lara Croft

Type of documentary:
Mixed

Themes:
The effect of computer games
The repsentation of women
Influence of the media

Narrative Structure:
Closed narrative structure
Single Strand
Non Liner

Camerawork:
Fast motion through the computer place
Left or right
Close up and medium close up and extreme close up
Point of view shot of the game tracking shot and zoom also used
Over the shoulder shot

Mise-en-scene
Game in the background of the interviewed
Chromakey, in the background
Linked it to what was being said
Out of focused
Low key lighting used

Sound:
Non Digetic Music used from the game, reason for this is to get the target audience.
Non digetic music used Madonna’s music
Male and Female voice over
Stated English

Editing:
Interview on a screen in an editing box
Fast Motion editing
Cut shots
Super imposed

Archive Material:
Cutaways of the game
Cutaways of the film
Goes through what people say about her and what they think of her websites
Advert for Nike

Graphics:
To tell people who someone is
At the bottom of the opposite of the interviewer
Low case in white
Rolling credits
Speech bubbles used

Documentary Analysis

The devil made me do it

Type of documentary:
Mixed

Themes:
Crimes for example, murder. The devil Worship Religion. Youth v Parents. Power of the media.

Narrative Structure:
Non linear as it started at the end and then tell the story. Open structure narrative.

Camerawork:
A fan in the crowd at the Marilyn Manson concert - establishing shot (outside/ inside building) Interviews: Close up, medium close up, low angle, interviewee's positioned to left or right.Rule of thirds used- eyeline positioned a third of the way down.Marilyn Manson panned up to connote power.Hand held camera work used as some of it is real footage.Point of view shot of inspector (creative editing) Close up of faces - stock footage- churches, religious iconography (low/high angle) Tracking of police inspector, panning, zoom of still images, Crain in cemetery.Tracking on Manson walking through Rome.P.O.V shot of nun as dies - we are positioned as voyers.Crain shot used in the cemetery.Conventional interview rules used - mostly used a medium close upLong shot of deserted streets.

Mise-en-scene:
Inspector- cap of officer appeared large with himself smaller behind it (low angle) Isolated nunMan visiting graveyardLighting on most of stock footage their very dark apart from one orange or blue glow (Off lamp) Marilyn Manson one to one interviews- low angle connotes powerHis face is half in the dark and half in the light connoting good v bad.

Sound:
Voice over- is a male narrator using Standard English, who is very calm in delivery, he is the glue that holds the narration together.Translating voice over same age and gender of the person on screen.Marilyn Manson music usedReligious music usedSound effects used.

Editing:
Cut edits used Hours of stock footage edited down and matched what the boy being interviewed said that being bored and seeing nun stood around.Priest: Entire interview audio and filmed him he looks very tired, quiet roads ahead signifies loneliness, the lighting of light then dark on the priest's face is a dramatic effect.Killing of the nun: door, the heart beat speeds up and then slows down and then stops when dead. Hitting with the rock and then stabbing alongside the dog barking. Breathing and whispering. Then the church bell singly strikes at death. When Manson fans are on screen they use orchestral music for juxtaposition. Elliptical editing used - fade to black.

Archive Material:
News footage- police investigation, the nun’s funeral, the girl leaving the court. American TV- colomy massacreManson music videoGirls with Marilyn Manson on their chest.Italian TV showsNewspaper cuttings

Graphics:
Font is sans serif in a white colour when the name is placed to the opposing side of the interviewee at the bottom of the screen. There name is in a bigger font then there job title.Cruisifix instead of the letter 'T' in the title.Font on the screen to let the audience know the context for example dates and locations.White text used to close the narrative of trail which was fitting in with the audio being spoken. Rolling credits at the end

Documentary Analysis

Title of programme: Big brother around the world

Type of documentary:
Fully Narrative

Themes:
Reality TV
Big brother though the years
The difference in different countries

Narrative:
Multi strand narrative

Camerawork:
Medium shots
Long shots
Rule of third used, left to right when doing an interview

Mise-en-scene:
Big brother studio in the background when Dermiet is talking
In the big brother chair
Outside the main entrance where the big brother eye is
Walking up the big brother stairs

Sound:
Non digetic music when looking at archive material
Music used between cuts
Non digetic music to make the scenes more dramatic

Editing:
Subtitles
Graphics used in-between cuts
Presenter on the screen

Archive Material:
Old footage of the old clips in the house
Cut shots
Big brother chair
Screens from the house are shown

Graphics:
Subtitles needed when in a different language
Through the screen

Rolling credits

Documentary Analysis

Title of programme: 911/state of emergency

Type of documentary:
Fly on the wall also sometime self reflexive

Themes:
Death, Self awareness, Sadness

Narrative Structure:
Talks us through there for omniscient (voice of god)
Single strand

Camerawork:
Real footage used. Many different types of footage used. Many re-filmed footage of scenes that could not be filmed. There were also cutaway scenes of planes flying.
Rule of three used when recording the interviews.
Also close up used when trying to get the feel of people’s emotions.

Mise-En-Scene:
During the interview in the background it is dark with a red light which I feel may symbolism emergency and danger, it is also used when interviewing the people who lost their loved one. Which again think may symbols there love? All the footage is real footage apart from a few missing scenes. Rule of three is also used.

Sound:
Real voice calls used from people from airplanes ringing. People who rang their loved ones were also used. Non digetic sound is used such a piano music, which was quite sad. Beater music was used which would be to get the audience on the edge and nervous.

Editing:
Many scenes have had to be re-filmed. Real footage is used to try and get the audience the feel of what really happened. Phone calls from real people I also edited in. Non digetic music edited in.

Archive material:
Re-constructed filming of scenes. An example of this was when trapped in the building of one of the towers. Another example is when people on the phone when saying goodbye to their last words to their loved ones.

Graphics:
These where used to explain who people where. Graphics where also used to say where the scene was based.

Documentaries

Documentaries- The different types

The purpose of the documentary is to document, that is to report with evidence, with something that has actually happened. It can show this by using actual footage or reconstruction. It can use a narrator’s voice over to anchor the meaning or rely on the participants themselves with perhaps the occasional interjection by the narrator.

John Grierson- General post office film unit in 1962
He invented the term documentary and he said that 'The creative treatment of actuality'

Documentaries are just about facts, instead facts are used to create social critical arguments. Thereby inviting the audience to draw their own conclusions.


Features of documentaries

John Corner of University of Liverpool

There are five central elements of the documentary

1. Observation - The programme makes pretend that the camera is unseen or ignored by the people taking part in the events. It is like being an eye witness as the events unfold.

2. Interview - Most important aspect. They give opinions and information.

3. Dramatisation - All the documentaries use a sense of drama through the observing element. They also use dramatic reconstruction or used in the observation.

4. Mise-en-scene - Documentary makes carefully constructed shots.

5. Exposition - The line of the argument in a documentary. What the documentary is 'saying'

Types of documentaries

Fully narrated- Commentary throughout to reiterate the images shown on screen and it makes sense of the visuals on screen. The narrator always authoritative but it always off screen.

Fly on the wall- Avoids voices over or commentary camera is non-abrasive as possible. It is like a window in the world, audiences can see as much of the reality as possible. They use a indirect address to the audience, relativity long takes, diagetic sound and they tend to focus on the specific individuals.

Mixed documentary- A combination of interview observation and actually, achieve material and narration to audience the argument/narrative. The narrator is often on screen.

Self reflexive - Documentary maker gives his/her angle on the subject, subject of documentary realises the presence of the camera and speaks directly to the programme maker. They draw attention to the film makers rule in constructing a view of reality.

Docudrama- A re-enactment of events as they are supposed to actually happened.

Docusoaps- A hybrid/combination of styles for example 'airport'. The follow a group of characters. They also focus on entertainment rather than social commentary. They have soap like structure- several interviewing plot lines.

Drama documentary- A documentary work, usually on television or radio, in which real events are re-enacted by actors, or in which real events and characters are mingled with fictional ones.

Structure

Narrative structure open- lose ends that are not tied up at the end
V's
Narrative structure closed - there's a definite conclusion to the narrative

Linear- Follows chronological order

Non-linear - Things are not in time order, use of flashback or flash-forward.

Circular - The beginning is the same as the end.

Interviews

An interview can be held anywhere but the setting does affect meaning. Normally begin the factual information and questions first to put the interviewee at ease, then the more taxing and emotional questions at the end.

Visuals

Television is a visual medium. The programme needs to stimulate to maintain the audiences interest. They have to entertain. Archive material street scene, open countryside, close up of face is the main part of the stock material used to suggest the intended meaning or emotional equalities of a particular theme. Interviews can be held anywhere but the setting does affect the meaning.

Construction of reality

The media are responsible for the majority of the observation and experience from which we build up our personal understandings of the world and how it works. Much of our view of reality is based on media messages that have been pre- constructed and have attitudes, interceptions and conclusions already built in. The media, to a great extent gives us our sense of reality.

Gate keeping - The selection and rejection of information/content for inclusion in the media text.

Editing process - Chop up the interview. Where gate keeping happens in a documentary.

Voice over- Can affect the meaning.

Vox pop
Vox populis - voice of the people

Technique consists of the street interviews of the general public asked the same question, the answers are then strung together in a fast sequence. They are good for suggesting a general agreement or the diversity of opinion.
You set a camera up in the street and ask passers by the same question.

Narrative Conventions

Documentaries rely heavily on traditional conventions of narrative i.e. beginning, middle and end.

Beginning- Central question of the documentary can be posed at the beginning in an intriguing way.
Most dramatic pieces of action footage can also be placed at the start of some quick interview cuts in conflict with each other can get the audience’s attention.

Middle- Often examines the issue in human terms focusing on people and their opinions. Conflict is strengthened in the middle section however conflicting evidence may be introduced but all complications must eventually support the exposition (line of argument).

End - Exposition is fully apparent by the end. The audience has no doubts to what the programme is saying and there may even be a course of action the audience can take to address the problem.

Evaluation

My task was to create a documentary on mobile phones. Me and my group were given the questions and then went away to film. We filmed in a classroom and we used a camcorder to record. We also recorded a few cutaway shots. We used a camera to take some pictures for cutaway shots. I then went onto the Internet to try and find more pictures that could be used as cutaway shots. We then used photoshop? to edited the footage to put together are video documentary. We edited in transitions shots, and music that goes with the theme of this documentary. We also used effects to get the music to fade in and fade out.

During creating my documentary there was not many things that stood out to be good, however one thing that worked well was the group that we were put in. We all put in are part and were able to work well together. This made us able to answer all the questions. We also followed codes and conventions in the sense that we made sure that are interviewee did not look at the camera during the interview. We made sure that she was looking the person interviewing her. We also made sure that the lighting was good so that did not affect the shot. We made sure again that codes and conventions were followed and we made sure the lighting was in front not behind. We used a few cutaway shots, and used different kinds of cutaway shots. That was relevant to the documentary. Another way in which we followed codes and conventions was we edited the questions out.

There were many things that were not good enough for a documentary, and many things that did not follow code and conventions. Such as we did not use proper framing and did not also use mise en scene. Another code and convention that we did not follow was we stuck to the same transition throughout the whole documentary. We also did not use text to say who were interviewing.

There are many things that must be improved when creating a next documentary. Such as I must try and stick to all of the codes and conventions. The main thing that I feel must be improved is the framing as I did not stick to the rule of thirds, which I will do when next creating a documentary. Another big improvement I feel must be made is the transitions, as I stuck to the same one throughout it all, which made the documentaries look very stupid and also made it feel like you are reading a book.

Over all I feel that for my first ever attempt of creating a documentary I did not too bad. However as you can see there is many different things that I do need to pick up on to improve my next documentary. I feel that next time I will be able to full fill my full potential and create a more improved documentary and have used this experience as a learning curve.

Documentaries

Today in class I have looked at the documentaries that are linked to my blog, and seen in which way they have used the codes of conventions.

The first code of convention i looked out for was, Interviewees are filmed in a media shot, medium close up or close up.

The second code of convention I looked out for was, Framed to the left or right of the screen- positioning alternates if more then one interviewee to create variety.

Final Project

Today in class me and my group finished of are video and uploaded it to YouTube. Below is the link to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayckili_DIg

The Mobile Task Screenshots

Here below are screenshots of what i used to create my documentary on mobile phones. I used photoshop?



In this screen shot it shows trying to create the credits. To do this I pressed F9 on the keyboard and this screen above came up. This allows you to put text and decorate it how I would like it. It then ables you to put it straight onto the video.

In this certain screenshot it is carrying on from the screenshot above, trying to make the credits. You can see in the screenshot it is the end credit. I have used purple text as I thought it would go well with the documentary. You can also so I altered the text. This was because I wanted to text to go with the documentary and thought this was a appropriate text.

In this screenshot we are doing the finishing touches by putting in music. You can see from this screenshot that me and my group are finishing the end part of the documentary. We used music in the begging and at the end, however in this particular screenshot you can only see the end. We also edited the song so that it flowed with the documentary.





In this one you are able to see that we are putting in the transitions to make the documentary flow from question to question. We used a transition between each question and, also going from the documentary shot to a picture or a cutaway shot. You can see in the top left corner you can pick between different transitions. You can also see on the timeline were me and my group have places them.