I think my documentary and other tasks do follow the codes and conventions of there professional counter part. In my Newspaper advert is has everything that a newspaper advert had in my research, It had the title of the documentary it had the time and date of when the documentary was going to be shown. Mine was being show on the 20th of December which is 20/12 which is also the same year that the London Olympic Games are on and when Jonathan was hoping the fencers to be ready by. It had pictures that you could relate to the documentary and it had the channel that I was being show on. You can see this in my video evaluation
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In my Magazine article I did everything that was done in the real spreads on documentaries. I had the name again so that you now what you were reading, I had a picture which you could easily relate to the documentary, I had the time and day that the documentary was going to be shown on. This is all shown on my comparison seen below.
My documentary also meat the same codes and conventions that real documentaries do. This includes have a theme and staying with that theme through out mine was fencing and I stayed on fencing the whole time. Also I had live footage of me fencing I also had footage that was taken before and that I reused. Also there were things that split up the show like the little fencing man that I made on flash to use as a splitter like they do when they have a short break between each main part of the show. Also I had the name of the documentary in the title sequence which is very important; also it had a channel that it was played on. I chose BBC one and they would most likely play my type of documentary because It is supporting the Olympics and most of the Olympics is show on the BBC also It is show Great Britain In a good light which is what the BBC like to do and try to support the country they are played in, There are parts where there are professionals talking about fencing to help you get the idea of what fencing is about this is also in really documentary. I also have a mixture of voice overs and real life talking in my documentary, which is done very well, in real documentaries. I also have songs playing to keep the mood up and to set the scene in some shots this is also used in documentaries. Overall I think that all my projects meat with the codes and conventions of regular documentaries, Newspaper adverts and Magazine spreads on documentaries
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
It is very effective. My project is all about fencing and the documentary has lots of clips about fencing and the other 2 projects have lots of photos of fencing so there is a fencing theme running thought all of the projects. Also i have used the same colour all thew way thought this is a type of gold colour it is not to dark but it is not to bright ether so it stands out against most things. Also i have used the text thought the whole of the project. In my documentary where there is writing and in the magazine advert there is a lot of writing the text is the same. And in the advert and the magazine where there are main titles on the top of the page i have used to same text because people can relate to the text that you are using. I have also used the same photo of me in my track suit on the advert where is is just a little bit of me and in the magazine article it is the whole photo this means that people can relate me to the documentary. I have also used the some photo in the avert for on of the rings and it is also in the magazine in the bottom corner used to show more fencing. I think it is very important that there is a combination between each project and there is in my project.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I learnt a lot from my feedback and it was very helpful. I went to town and showed people in town my work i also showed my Friends and family. As expected my family were very supportive and told me i was all great, and to and extent my friends told me that as well but thy also gave me some good tips on how to chance and improve my work. The most help came from going into town and showing people my work they were very helpful and told me what they thought which was really good. I learnt that some of them didn't now what fencing was so i have added a bit in to my documentary that will help those who are unaware get the whole story. Also they said that in some parts it need to be a but more exciting so i have cut together some extra clips and i have added them to the documentary. Also they said that the writing on the advert need to stand out more so i made it bolder and the text on the magazine article need to be a different colour so i changed that as well to help everyone read the article. I found that doing audience feed back was very profitable and helped me to improve my projects a lot more.
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I used a lot of media technologies to make my projects. I had to use the Internet to my research into similar media projects,the interment is very helpful and their is a lot on there which was a great help. To make each of my 3 projects i used different programs on the e macs. I used Imovie to make the film, i used Photshop to make that advert, and i used Indesign to make the magazine spread. I had to use a video camera o take the footage for my movie i has to use i tripod to hold the video camera up so that the shot were not wobbly and they looked good. I had to add voice overs in to my documentary so i used a voice recorder and them i uploaded them on to imoive. I also used a normal digital camera to take photos of me fencing and i too photos of me stand still in front of fencing. I also had to use the video camera o film video evaluations of my plans for each of my 3 projects and then i uploaded them on to blogger. I also used this new program on the Emacs called screen shot where it take a recording of the screen and it can have talking as well and i have used this to show how i have made all my 3 projects. I have also used the same program to evaluate each of my projects. I am using Blogger to display my work. I have used a lot of new media technology's to help make this project but they are all very help full and useful.
