Finals

Here is the final 'First 5 minutes' of our documentary:

Here is the Radio Trailer we are going to use:



Here is the final Newspaper Advert we are going to use:

Evaluation

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop and challange form and conventions of a real media product?

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Here is the Prezi presentation I created in answer to question 2. I have also included a link to the presentation incase the embeded one does not work:

http://prezi.com/u1bzlw1by7-j/qestion-2-linking-texts/

Qestion 2: Linking texts on Prezi

Question 3: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Creating the Radio Trailer

BBC 4 Radio Trailer on a Weather Documentary:

• Sound effects
• Voiceover (weatherman, John Kettley)
• Female voiceover at the end - Scheduling, 'Coming soon', Channel
• SFX realte to what the weatherman was saying
• Humour in script
• Sound levels – weather becomes louder
  

Last chance to see:

• Voiceover Stephen Fry
• Like he is telling a story
• Calm delivery
• SFX relate to what he’s saying
• Music bed – gentle
• Woman voiceover with scheduling
• All other sounds stop
  

Special Needs Pets:

• Music bed throughout
• Woman ‘introducing’ excerpts
• Music is juxtaposed with subject
• Silly
• Quirky
• Woman voiceover intercut with extracts
• Poses questions for the audience
• Intrigues audience
• Scheduling

Codes and Conventions of a Radio Trailer:

• Voiceover intercut throughout
• Trailer should intrigue an audience
• Make them want to find out more
• Scheduling info at the end always goes title, day, time, channel
• Music bed where appropriate
• 30 – 40 seconds long
• Scheduling
• Extracts from the programme

Throught the production of our radio teailer, we took screengrabs.

This is our timeline after everything has been added and put into order:

This is the mixer were we changed the levels of the different parts of the trailer:





















Here is how we checked that the audio levels wokred when they were together because they all had to be below -6:

Voiceover Recording

Here are photos of us recording the voiceovers:



























Opening Voiceover
In Britain on average a person eats 4.2 sandwiches a week. Sandwiches have been getting a bad press lately with the popularity of fast food sandwiches growing, such as Subway and the McDonalds deli menu. The sandwich industry itself is fast growing now employing over 300,000 people but is it the perfect lunch or is it responsible for the deteriorating health of the nation?

Before nurse
Although the sandwich strives to be a healthier alternative, do we really know what goes in to our favourite products and what are the healthy benefits we get from them?

Before dinner lady
Jamie Oliver has took up the cause of improving the nations school dinners, but with all this media attention are they really as healthy as they are made out to be?

Before food tech teacher
Results show that when it comes to food children would rather have the unhealthy option because it’s easier and supposedly tastier. However schools are the fore front of trying to educate children that healthy doesn’t mean boring and tasteless.

Radio Trailer
Vox pops

The sandwich is a firm favourite of the british diet weather it be a bacon and egg sandwich, chicken salad or even peanut and crisps are love for sandwiches is as great as ever but is the sandwich the cause of the nations health problems or is it the best thing since sliced bread?

Answers to do you think sandwiches are a healthy option
sandwich shop owner
food tech teacher

Do we actually know what we are eating

nurse answers to do you think sandwiches are a healthy option

the perfect lunch
wednesday
half 8
on channel 4

(extracts from programme)
(Voiceover)

Editing

Throughout the editing stage, we took screengrabs of what we were doing as well as out edit decion list.

This is the edit decision list were everything we are going to put in the final five minutes will be decided along with the transition we will be using:




















Here is a screengrab of us selecting the interview we wanted to edit out of all of our footage:




















Here is the entire interview before we edited out the questions:

Here is the slice tool that we used to cut out parts of the interview:




















Here is the interview when we had selected the question we wanted to delete:





Here is the interview after we deleted the question we didn't want to include:





Here is the timeline after we pushed the two clips together:





Here is a screengrab of when we added graphics to the interview:















We then edited the sound levels of the interview and the music just before it:




















This is a screengrab of the finished interview:







We then rendered the production:

Creating the Newspaper Advert

The codes and conventions of a Newspaper Advert are:

• It must be in A4 Landscape so it can fit into many sizes and be transfered to things like billboards etc.
• It must have one main image that is striking and sums up the programme as best it can.
• The text must include the programme title, the slogan, the scheduling and have the TV companies logo aswell.

Here are screen grabs of the editing process we went through to create the Newspaper Advert:


















































































Here are some examples of real Channel 4 programme adverts:

Filming Cutaways

All of the different interviews required different cutaways so we had to come up with different shots to use.

Sandwich shop owner:-
-Pan around the shop
-Close up of the menu
-Customer being served
-Zoom into the shop name
-Filmed making a sanwich

School Nurse:-
-Filmed in the canteen, people eating their lunch
-Close up of peoples lunches

DinnerLady:-
-Pan acros the canteen
-Close up of peoples lunches
-Students buying their lunch
-Close up of sandwiches being bought

Food Technology Teacher:-
We filmed in one of the teachers lessons
-Close ups of preparing food
-Cooking food
-Cooking skills of younger people

Photos of Us Filming

Food Technology Teacher Interview

We filmed an interview with a food tech teacher and asked them about the health of the food they cook and what the cooking skills are like of the children in the school.

We also got footage for cut-aways of children cooking things in school and making various foods which can be used between questions on the interview.

1. Why do you think young people are choosing to make sandwiches instead of cooking a meal?

2. Do you think that sandwiches are a healthier option for lunch and why?

3. What are people's cooking skills like when they come to this school?

4. Tell me about the sandwich project you teach n year 7.

5. Why do you teach it?

6.Whats your percect lunch and why?

7. Do you think pupils should be taught healthy cooking from an earlier age and why?

8. Whats your favourite sandwich?

Overall the interview went well apart from we had to stop filming a couple of times when students walked in.

Dinner Lady interview

We interviewed a dinner lady and asked her about how school meals had changed and in what ways they were/weren't healthy for children.

We filmed the interview in the dinner hall were the children eat their lunch with the other dinner ladies preparing the food in the background.

We also took the opportunity to film cut-aways to use in between the questions. We used shots of the children buying lunch and some of them eating.

1. School dinners have had alot of criticism over the years, why do you think this is?

2. How have school dinners changed over the years?

3. Tell me about the guidelines you have to follow when preparing school dinners.

4. What do you consider to be the perfect lunch and why?

5. What do students prefer to buy, hot meals or sandwiches and why do you thnk they are popular?

6. Do you think sandwiches are healthy? Explain.

7. What do you think are more healthy, school meals or packed lunches and why?

8. What do you do to attract students to healthier options?

9. What is your favourite sandwich?

This was successful on the whole and we are able to use the majority of the answers.

Filming in Hawes

I took a video camera to Hawes in North Yourkshire. I filmed some cut-aways of local sandwich shops. These can be used between interviews and vox-pops etc.

Filming the Opening Titles

We filmed the title sequence for our documentary as stop-animation of a sandwich making itself. We did it using a stills camera and taking photos every time we moved a piece. However, when we looked at the images on the computer they were all differently exposed and some looked bright and othesr dull.
We refilmed it using a high definition web-cam which worked much better and they looked perfect. We then edited the photos ogether using a stop-animation package called...............and then added the music to it in Adobe Premiere.

Filming Vox Pops take 2

We went back to Liscard to film Vox Pops again the following Wednesday and this time we asked more people and got much more answers. We also made sure that the framing was right on each one we did and we positioned ourselves away from sandwich shops so people wern't tempted just to name sandwiches from the shop we were outside of. The footage was good and we will be using it as the opening in our five minuets.

Sandwich Shop Owner Interview

The next part of our documentary we had to film was an interview with an independant sandwich shop owner. Fortunately we knew someone who owned a sandwich shop called Veronica's. We went to their shop on a Saturdy morning and filmed and interview there. Our first take was unusable because the interviewees phone rang. During the second take, a customer came in and we had to stop the interview. Our third take was perfect and we will be using it in out final five minuets. We also go establishing shots of the shop and various cutaways of a sandwich being made to use in the interview.

1. What is your favourite sandwich?

2. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option?

3. What made you want to run a sandwich shop?

4. Tell me about a typical day here?

5. Why do you think people like sandwiches? What’s the appeal?

6. Tell me about your sandwich range, most expensive, cheapest......?

7. What do you say to the criticism that sandwiches are unhealthy?

8. What would you consider the perfect lunch?

9. How do you come up with new fillings to put in the sandwiches and do you test them first or just put them on sale?

10. Do you have regulars and if so, do they always get the same?

11. What do you think the appeal is of sandwiches?

12. Do you do requests and if so, what was the most unusual?

13. What are the most and least popular sandwiches bought?

The majority of the interview went well apart from the interviewees phone went off part way through one of his answers.

Filming Vox Pops

At first, we tried to film Vox Pops in Liscard town centre on a Wednesday afternoon. We found that there were not a lot of people who were willing to answer our question. When we got back and captured the footage we saw that the framing of the Vox Pops wa quite poor and the sound did not work when it was captured onto the computer. We decided we would go out and do it again.

Planning Part 2

Sandwich Shop Owner
We filmed an interview with a sandwich shop owner in their shop by Moreton Cross, the questions were:

1. What is your favourite sandwich?

2. Do you consider a sandwich a healthy option?

3. What made you want to run a sandwich shop?

4. Tell me about a typical day here?

5. Why do you think people like sandwiches? What’s the appeal?

6. Tell me about your sandwich range, most expensive, cheapest etc?

7. What do you say to the criticism that sandwiches are unhealthy?

8. What would you consider the perfect lunch?

9. How do you come up with new fillings to put in the sandwiches and do you test them first or just put them on sale?

10. Do you have regulars and if so, do they always get the same?

11. What do you think the appeal is of sandwiches?

12. Do you do requests and if so, what was the most unusual?

13. What are the most and least popular sandwiches bought?

This interview was successful and we are using most of the questions in our documentary. While there we had to film the start of the interview twice as the owner looked at the camera while we were filming the interview, he kept moving and he also didnt answer the question with the question we asked. So we then told him and interviewed him again.

We also filmed cutaways after the interview and made sure they were relevant to the questions we asked and the answers we were given.


Dinner Lady
We also filmed an interview with a dinner lady. We based this interview in the cafeteria and filmed it in mid shot. The questions we asked in this interview were:

1. School dinners have had a lot of criticism over the years, why do you think this is?

2. How have school dinners changed over the years?

3. Tell me about the guidelines you have to follow when preparing school dinners

4. What do you consider to be the perfect lunch and why?

5. What do students prefer to buy, hot meals or sandwiches and why do you think they are popular?
6. Do you think sandwiches are healthy? Explain?

7. What do you think are more healthy school meals or packed lunches and why?

8. What do you do to attract students to healthier options?

9. What is your favourite sandwich?

This interview was also successful and the answers she gave were very detailed. We also explained the codes and conventions of the interview before she started so that we wouldn't have to film it twice.

During the filming of this interview we filmed cutaways relevant to the interview with the dinner lady and the interview with the school nurse. Both the interview and cutaways were successful and both will be used in our documentary.


School Nurse
For the healthy eating subject in our documentary we got an interview with the school nurse about healthy eating and the healthy eating of school dinners. We originally waned a dietician to interview but after numerous calls to the doctors, gym and hospital none were available for an person to person interview but some were available for an interview over the phone which could not be used in our documentary.
The questions for this interview were as follows:



This interview came out very successful. We filmed the interview in the nurses office in front of some healthy eating posters so the miss en scene represented the subject matter.

We filmed cutaways for this interview at lunchtimes while children were eating there lunch in the canteen.


Food Tech Teacher
We filmed an interview with a food tech techer at Weatherhead about the cooking skils the pupils have when they join the school, healthy eating and sandwiches. These are the questions we asked:

1. Why do you think young people are choosing to make sandwiches instead of cooking a meal?

2. Do you think that sandwiches are a healthier option for lunch and why?

3. What are peoples cooking skills like when they come to this school?

4. Tell me about the sandwich project you teach in year 7?

5. Why do you teach it?

6. Whats your perfect lunch and why?

7. Do you think pupils should be taught healthy cooking from an earlier age and why?

8. Whats your favourite sandwich?

This interview was succesful and will be used in our documentary. We also filmed cutaways in a food tech lesson of year 9's making starters for a food project. These cutaways will be used in the interview.

Planning

This is the Mise-en-scene for the nurse interview:
















This is the Mise-en-scene for the sandwich shop owner interview:

This is our storyboard for the opening titles of out documentary:

Here is the Mise-en-scene for ou ionterview with the sandwich shop owner:

Running Order

Documentary: ‘The Perfect Lunch?’
Channel: Channel 4
Duration: 27 minutes

Primary and Secondary Research for Documentary

Primary Research:

• Interview with sandwich shop owner - Mise-en-scen of the shop and asking questions about the health of the sandwiches and which ones are popular etc.
• Vox Pops - Question: 'What's your favourite sandwich?' and picking the most interesting answers.
• Interview with nurse - Mise-en-scene of her office with poters about healthy foods and sandwiches in the background whcih we borrowed from our food tech department. Asking about the health of sandwiches on the market and health of school dinners and she gave us leaflets with information on the could be used for our voiceover.
• Interview with school dinner lady - Mise-en-scene of the kitchen in the background with other dinner ladies preparing the cafeteria. Questions about the health of school dinners and how they have changed over time.
• Interview with food tech teacher - Mise-en-scene of classroom in the background. Questions about what they teach students and the sandwich project in the year 7 and about the skills they have when first coming to the school.

Secodary Research:

• Archive footage from various TV shows
• Footage from 'Friends' - Ross' sandwich, Joey's sandwich in the police car, Pheobe trying meat.
• Footage from 'Scooby Doo'.
• Footage from 'The Simpsons'.
• Sandwich adverts - Subway, Hovis etc.

Formal Proposal

Topic: Sandwiches
Type of Documentary: Mixed
Style of Documentary: Informal
Channel: 8-30 pm - Wednesday
Scheduling: Channel 4
Target Audience: Teenagers/Young Adults

Primary Research:
Interviews
Vox Pop
Location for filming
Dietician/Nurse
Sandwich shops and owners

Secondary research:
Archive footage
Sandwich history
Internet Research
TV shows

Narrative structure: Open, Non-linear

Outline of content:
History of the sandwich
Vox pop – “What’s your favourite sandwich?”
Interview with shop owner
Interview dietician
Still images – most expensive sandwich
Cutaways - Sandwich getting eaten, making a sandwich
Childrens school dinners
Interview with a dinnerlady
Sandwich facts

Resource requirements:
Video camera
Still camera
Compute – adobe premier to edit
Voice recorder
Microphone
Studio

Brainstorm of Content for Documentary

Here is the brainstorm we had whilst deciding the conntent for our documentary:

Questionnaire Results (Voice Recordings)

Here are some voice clips of people answering questions from our questionnaire.

Questionnaire Results

What is your favourite colour?















This question will help us design the colour scheme of our documentary.

What is your favourite TV channel?













This will help us decide the channel that our documentary will air on.

What is your favourite genre of music?
















This will help us pick the music bed for our documentary.

At what time of day do you watch TV the most?















This will help us pick when to air our documentary.

How old are you?














We asked people who fall into the target audience range. This will help us create our documentary so it fits our target audience as best it can.

Are you male or female?















We asked twice as many women as we did men because, stereotyically, women will be more interested in a food programme than men.

What is your favourite sandwich?















The most popular sandwich turned out to be chicken, this will be used as a fact in our voice over.

Where is your favourite place to get a sandwich?













This shows that most people think 'Subway' is the best place to buy sandwiches from and this will aslo be used as a fact in our voiceover.

Why do you eat sandwiches?












This shows that most people eat sandwiches becuase of the taste, this will also be used as a fact in our voiceover.

Do you make your own sandwiches?













This shows half of the people in our survey make their own, this will be used in our voiceover.

Do you consider sandwiches to be a healthy option?













This shows most of the people we asked do consider sandwiches a healthy option.

What do you have with a sandwich?













These results show that crisps are the most popular thing to eat with sandwiches.

When do you usually have a sandwich?












This shows that most people eat sandwiches for lunch, this will be used in the voiceover.

How often do you eat sandwiches?














This will be used as information in our voiceover.