Tuesday 28 December 2010

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:

Monday 27 December 2010

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/





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?

Thursday 23 December 2010

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:

Wednesday 22 December 2010

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)

Tuesday 21 December 2010

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:

Monday 20 December 2010

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:














Friday 19 November 2010

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