Evaluation Question Four

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

The following video defines and explains the software and equipment that I used throughout the duration of the construction and research and planning and evaluation stages. As many aspects merge together I have put them into one video explaining the uses.

Evaluation Question Three

For this evaluation question I looked at the audience feedback for the three texts that we created and took a number of things that I had learned from this into consideration.

As we took these questionnaire's in school we took photo evidence of the class analysing our texts.

 

 

We also received a range of feedback on Facebook for each of our texts.

For our audience feedback we used these questionnaire's.

Evaluation Question Two

For this part of my evaluation I looked at how effective the combination of my main product and my ancillary texts were alongside each other. This included looking at the links between them and looking at how they were effective for the documentary.

Evaluation Question One

For this question I looked at how my media products used and developed forms and conventions of real media products. As I had not challenged on of these conventions I did not choose to write about that section.
   

Audience Feedback

I conducted some audience feedback on a number of social networks including Facebook and Twitter. Radio Trailer and Print Advert got a wide range of feedback. We also took a number of questionnaire's in class to get specific feedback about certain aspects of the documentary  that we needed information about. This included improvments and ratings about things ranging from music to mise-en-scene. This feedback will help with the evaluation of the product in picking out the good parts and the less successful parts.

 

These were the questionnaire results:

Audience feedback – moving foreword from RachLou96

Moving Foreword - Newspaper Advertisement

After the idea and the development of our Newspaper Advert this was the final product we came up with.

First Draft and Development into the Final Poster

This was our paper draft of our print advert that we designed. We used a play on words with "kindle" by interpreting the digital Kindle as burning kindle and so came up with the idea that, as Kindles and eBooks are the future that it would be books burning as the "kindle" on the fire.

The following powerpoint shows how we developed this draft into our actual poster on Photoshop.

Production of the ‘Moving Foreword’ Print

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Moving Foreword - Radio Trailer

This is our final radio trailer that we created.

Moving Foreword - Documentary

This is the final documentary that we created.

Voiceover and Radio Trailer Recording

We spent some time recording our voiceover for the documentary and our radio trailer in a recording studio within school with the Helen Keay who we had chosen to do our voiceover. We decided to record the voiceovers for both productsn together because it meant we would only have to use the studio once and not try and fit it in twice with Helen.

We used the recording mic and recording software that is in the studio to record the voiceovers. The studio mic allowed us to get a crisp speaking sound without background noise and so leaving us with a clear voiceover with no distractions.

We recorded it all on one long audio track so we could cut up and edit each part but  keep it all together.

Scripting Voiceover and Radio Trailer Advert

Using transcript conventions, we wrote a script for our radio trailer. This helps to direct the person whom is reading the voiceover keep in time and not read too fast or too slow.

Music Bed: Brian’s Log – Doctor Who Series 7 Soundtrack (Instrumental)

Voiceover: Helen Keay

(.) – Short Pause

(1.0)          – Long Pause

 ______  - Emphasis

   

v/o  - Books (.) Whether you love them or hate them they affect everyone

Clip - “I’ve had books since I was a baby, books that have seen me through college” (03.45secs)

v/o  - No matter what the form may be

Clip - The anticipation, the build up and the excitement of the adaptation to the screen.” (05.00secs)

Clip - “You can download them to your phone, your iPod, your PC although I don’t think many people like to read a book on a PC” (06.00secs)

v/o  -The list is endless thanks to technological advancement (.) Even those who have never picked up a book have been seduced by the appeal of having hundreds of books in one Kindle (1.0)

v/o  - So (.) the question is (1.0)  “Is the modern, electronic book phenomenon taking away the magic of the physical book?" (1.0)Find out in Moving Foreword on Channel 4 (.)  Thursday 9^th January at 9pm

This is the voiceover script for our documentary:

Within an ever developing digital world, it was inevitable that one day books were going to go digital. Electronic devices which allowed people to complete tasks quickly and efficiently was the stuff of science fiction, but now that life is imitating art, what does this mean for the future of the book?

Modern book production came about as a result of the invention of the printing press. Because the printing press mechanised the book production process, books became available in greater numbers. By the nineteenth century however the demand for books could not be met quickly enough by the process of hand printing. Printing companies developed larger presses to accommodate larger sheets of paper. These improvements allowed printers to produce books at a much faster rate.

Does the public’s move towards eBooks spell the end of the book?

With the growth and development of eBooks it is understandable that some libraries have taken the opportunity to provide their visitors with an eBook lending service. But how does it work?

Many books have been adapted into screenplays and achieved major box office success. It can be argued that the ease with which eBooks allow audiences to access literature has lead to an increase in demand for film adaptations. But will we ever see the eBook replace the ancient books that drive a films narrative?

Codes and Conventions of a Radio Trailer

We spent some time looking at existing Radio Trailers and picking out the codes and conventions within them.

For a Radio Trailer to be accurate it requires:

• An instrumental soundtrack running behind the voiceover of the advert. This allows the listener to hear the content of the trailer clearly and not be distracted by a track with vocals contained on it as they would clash with the speech.
• The music must be quiet enough to hear the voiceover and it must also be appropriate for the topic of the documentary. 
• The voiceover itself
• The voiceover must also contain a description of the programme name, what date and time it is on and what channel the programme will be on to allow listeners to know when they are able to watch the programme if they are interested.
• The voiceover should be scripted so that it is structured and makes sense.

The Radio Trailer may also contain:

• Sound effects, if they are relevant to the programme. E.g. - Animal sound effects on a documentary based around animals.
• It may contain audio clips from within the documentary to allow listeners to get an insight of the actual content within the documentary.
• The voiceover may use rhetorical questions to entice the listeners into watching the documentary.

Editing

This video shows the process used to create our documentary on Adobe Premiere Pro

Edit Decison List

We formed an Edit decision list to allow us to know which bits of footage we were using and also so that if anyone was given our footage and our EDL then they would be able to edit the documentary with ease.

Edit Descision List

Logging Sheet

This is the logging sheet on which we logged all the footage and audio that we filmed to keep track of what footage we had to use, and whether it was useable or not.

Video Production Logging Sheet