Post on 26-May-2015
transcript
Question 1 – In what ways does your media
products use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products?
Throughout the construction process we
followed all the codes and conventions of the genre,
therefore we have not challenged or developed
these conventions
A4 landscape, versatile shape
Advert contains: slogan, title and scheduling information
Contains two main images which are striking and sums up the programme
Contains the TV channel’s logo
Print Advert
Radio TrailerGives the scheduling information at the end in the following order; title, date and time then the channel
The narrator outlines the narrative and poses questions that may be answered in the documentary
Extracts from the programme are used as we used vox pop and interview answers
A sound effects of a heartbeat is used instead of a music bed because we wanted to make it sound like a horror trailer to entice the audience more
Contains the slogan
The trailer lasts for 49 seconds
DocumentaryNarration • We used a male voiceover in our documentary
because we didn’t want to portray the stereotype that women have more fears than men
• The narrator speaks in Standard English and the narration also acts as glue holding the elements of the documentary together to construct the narrative
• The narrator is of a relevant age to our target audience
DocumentaryCamerawork
The interviews are framed either to the left or right of screen in either; medium close up, close up or big close up
Our documentary Professional documentary
DocumentaryCamerawork• Cutaways were used to break up interview answers • A variety of camerawork was used and on still images
the camera zooms to make it more visually stimulating
Documentary• Cut is the main edit used in our documentary so that
it does not distract the audience from the subject matter
• No fancy editing effects were used that may distract the audience, the only effect used was the fade in and fade out of the graphics
• Fade to white is used after the title sequence to make it more visually creative
• Questions from the interviews were edited out so that we could only hear their answers
Editing
DocumentaryNarrative Structure• Single strand• Non-linear
Sound• Music was used to create an atmosphere. For example
during the spider interviews we wanted it to come across as scary so we used the exorcist theme song. We also then used a Kings of Leon song so that it would be suitable and enjoyable for the target audience
DocumentaryMise-en-scene• Relevant to the topic. For example, for the spider interviews we
created a collage of spiders to make the background more interesting and also we did it because they were filmed in medium close up. For the fear of tall buildings, we filmed the interviewee outside the largest Cathedral in England. Then for the interview with the psychologist we just used a plain wall as the background as he was filmed in big close-up
DocumentaryGraphics• There are two lines; the first is the name and the second is
the relevance to the topic • First line is a bigger type size than second • Simple fonts and colours are used and they are consistent
throughout the programme as well as the length of time they are on screen
• Graphics on title sequence are more creative than the rest