This text is the final draft I will use in my double page.

“The Family Secret fresh to Channel four. This modern documentary follows the journey of a mother and daughter as they discuss their family history. Heard of who do you think you are? This is better; the personal approach to the narrative engulfs you into the story from the first second. You follow their journey and re-live your own childhood while watching. There are some moments where you feel as if you are invading on the Sarah’s life as it is such a personal story however you come to understand that the reason the documentary was made was to expose different experiences of childhoods. This documentary will shock, appal and make you question the meaning of a conventional childhood. The director Heather Underwood has quite smartly hidden the ending, we are left looking at Sarah Underwood childhood home and wonder what will happen next as the screen fades to dark. Is there a sequel on the horizon, I wonder? Or was the documentary left in that way so that you never know the truth. I will let you decide. There are some moments in the documentary which will make you hold your breath; as Sarah Underwood looks back on the moment she meet her dad for the first time. The extreme close ups on Sarah's face make the raw emotions almost touchable As you watch the documentary and you feel powerless to see a grown women so pained from her childhood. “Trying to find my father opened a huge can of worms”Her shield comes down and you feel rather responsible and mean from watching the clip however you also feel like you are supporting the women by watching. Some of the footage has been filmed in one take and the constant frame of the footage does make you feel rather restless however the amazing story convinces you to keep watching. As the footage progresses there is a distinct difference between Sarah at the beginning and at the end of the footage, it makes you earn to find out more as you feel there are some key details missing, this quote from the interview is quite ambiguous and Sarah doesn’t quite go into what else her mother lied about.“Everything she had ever told me was a lie”If she had explained this more I may understand more and I believe the footage would have been more effective as the continuous and somewhat jumpy cuts gives you a snip it of what seems a long in-depth interview into the past.”

I have chosen to use the font ‘Courier’ for the text on my double page spread I believe it is appropriate as it conforms to the style of my title style ‘typewriter’ in my documentary interactive title. I have also used the style along with this font style I am currently writing in ‘Trebuchet MS’ as it is very similar to channel fours typeface therefore my products are conforming to the conventional representation of channel fours style identity.

In my magazine double page spreads I have experimented with a variety of methods to enhance the use of text when appealing to my target audience;

These text styles are from my double page experiments I believe the most effective style is the use of a box the last example. I chose to experiment with the colour red and blue as blue is the conventional colour style for channel four and particularly channel 4OD, the use of the colour red reflects empire cinemas colour as a brand and also links to the image of my mum on the sofa. However I believe the most effective colour is black and white in the text box as it is punch appealing and has a 3D quality. The use of black and white also links to the title of my documentary and the use of a black and white banner on my banner advertisement. I have chosen to continue the channel four block style for the title of my double page spread so that all of the tasks have a distinct link.

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“Trying to find my father opened this huge can of worms”

The Family

These three images show the continuity use of black and white between my three tasks. The double page spread title the banner and the documentary sliding banner.

I have written the text in font 10 and 12 as the conventional size of text on a double page spread is quite small as the magazine are trying to fit in a lot of text on the two pages.