Our documentary consisted of many forms and conventions of a typical documentary that you would see on Television. Our documentary on phobias included many techniques including Voxpops, archive footage and suitable graphics. Our previous research into the media product of documentaries helped up with all aspects that we had to consider. When filing our voxpops we always made sure that the lighting was correct, the framing and positioning was acceptable and that the subject was never looking directly into the camera lens. When filming voxpops we always ensured that me manoeuvred the camera about so that all the subjects were positioned correctly.
We also tried to keep in the lines of the conventions when it came to our interviews. We always made sure that we followed the rule of third (where the interviewee’s eye line is roughly a third of the way down the frame). We always made sure we asked the person being interviewed to look comfortable by taking off their jacket or coat, sitting relaxed and made sure they never looked directly into the camera lens, but always towards the interviewer. We always made sure that the person who was interviewing was sat down so that when it came to editing the interviewee was never looking up or down but always at the same thing directly opposite. When we asked the questions we couldn’t reiterate enough that they needed to answer the question by repeating the question, so that we never had to include the interviewers voice or unprofessional graphics before they answered. We also made sure we had made sure we had no ‘jump cuts’. As we were creating a documentary on phobias, we made sure that the background and Mise en scene was appropriate to what the person was talking about. For our interview with Joe (a fear of the dentist) we used the blue screen provided so that when we edited we could use a photograph of a dentist going into somebody’s mouth.
We included a lot of archive footage in our media product to keep within the lines of codes and conventions. We used footage of Gillian McKeith on ‘I’m a celebrity…get me out of here’ to show what can happen when people confronted their fears, people putting their fears into practice, such as a man bungee jumping to get over his fear of heights, and a clip from ‘Friends’. All of this archive footage was totally relevant to what we were trying to produce and some parts of the footage were used as cutaways to remove all of the jump cuts in our interviews.
When we were looking into our voice over we knew that we had to find the right voice for our type of documentary. We recorded our voice over more that 3 times to find the right voice. In a documentary, the voice of the voice over is always important to suit the type of documentary you are creating- e.g. A documentary about Men, would have the voice of a man. When looking at different documentaries, and once we studied them in detail, we saw that graphics were simple and never took the attention away from the interviewee. E decided as a group to use red graphics and a simple size and font. The positioning of the graphics is always important and from what we had learnt we placed ours at the bottom left of the interviewee.
Question 2.
All three of my productions combine together to create a clear and coherent piece. I included the title ‘ Face The Fear’ in everything and made them visible, or so that you could hear them clearly. The Radio Advertisement and my actual product linked together through the voice over. The voice was kept the same to keep continuity. The same slogan was included in both the Radio Advertisement and the Newspaper Advertisement. We also used The Channel 4 Indent in both the production and the Newspaper Advertisement. As a group we decided to use parts from the production in our Radio trailer, which gives the audience an understanding of what the topic of the documentary is linked with. For the print advert we also used relevant pictures so the audience would understand what the topic of the documentary was.
Question 3.
The audience feedback helped me realise what was wrong with our three products, and it also enabled me to see what the main reaction was towards our documentary. The audience feedback also helps us in future if we ever make a documentary again. Questions were asked to our main target audience, and they also gave their opinion on the three products.
I posted the documentary onto Facebook to gather reactions and collect critisism and also Facebook allowed people to comment. One person said that ' The documentary worked really well with the other tweo peices. The opening credits set the scene for what the Documentary is about. Also the interviews were relavant to the topic, but you could have used a wider range of professionals to give the audience more of an idea on what phobias there are, and what type of help their is.' From this we can say that we attempted and got in touch with more professionals including a Childs entertainer, and a Hypnotist.
Another person said 'alot of archive footage was used and it seemed to take away alot from the actual topic.' A few people said this and it really helped us think about our time management.
Question 4.
Evaluation question 4
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