1. A2 Media Evaluation TV Documentary Sophie Edgington

7. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. The person suits the environment. Person is framed slightly to the left looking across dead space . Looking to the right of the camera and not directly in it. OUR DOCUMENTARY REAL DOCUMENTARY Mise-En-Scene Person framed slightly off centre looking across dead space. Caption to say who the person is and what they are an expert in.

11. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products. We had to create a double page magazine article to promote our documentary. We decided that it would be in Radio Times as our documentary is going to be on BBC2, but also Radio Times is a more high brow TV listings magazine and so our target audience are more likely to read this over the other ones on the market. As we have made a polemical documentary , the article also had to draw attention to what our documentary is going to be about. As you can see, our magazine article follows the majority of a real double paged article. Although it could be argued that we have challenged some of the conventions by not having a main image but also the amount of text present on the page. Personally I feel it was quite risky that we did not have a main image as all that we looked that did have one, but overall I think it worked out quite well. Article Title A Standfirst Date and time of showing A subheading A grab quote A final word. Images A page number The article A colour scheme Images taken form the actual documentary

18. 3) What have you learned from your audience feedback? We were pleased to find out that are documentary was rated on average an 8 our of 10. We took this as people enjoyed it but also thought it was good from a media perspective. We were pleased to see our other ancillary products were rated quite highly too, which we thought was very positive feedback. We asked whether our opening montage grabbed their attention. We were quite disappointed to see that a lot of people said that it did not. We tried to be as similar to the actual TV documentary montages as we could but comments like ‘it should have been more fast paced’ were made which made us think that it could have been better if we had decided to speed it up or make it shorter so it did not go on for as long as it did.

19. What have you learned from your audience feedback? Most of the people who answered our questionnaire said that the article did follow typical conventions of a real double page spread. This was good as initially we had some doubts whether the article would suit our audience. Unfortunately when people were asked who our products were aimed at only a small percentage said our correct target audience . Most people said it was aimed at teenagers, which was the target group we were trying to avoid. This showed us that we should have maybe done a little more research into our target audience instead of the channels or magazine that they would be in. Although there was a small percentage that did say it was aimed for parents, the documentary may have been misunderstood by other people making them think it was for a younger audience, maybe just because it was about social networking.

20. What have you learned from your audience feedback? We did have a few results that we did not expect to get from our audience feedback but overall we were pleased with our results. People said that our documentary was informative enough and that there was continuity between all 3 of our products. Everyone we asked said that there was a clear brand identity between the products, which was a surprise to read. Only 1 questionnaire said that our documentary was not informative and 1 that said there was no continuity. This did not bother us as most people said that overall they enjoyed the documentary and from our feedback we think that it was a successful project.

27. How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? When creating our magazine article we had to use InDesign . This is the screen with our article in it. We added the title by making a box [1] and adding text over the top afterwards .[2] We had to make 3 columns [3] so we could split are text up neatly making it look more professional. We added our images and gave them all captions , again using the text tool. We also added frames around our images such as number 4 , by using the draw box tools. We changed the colours of everything using swatches [5] and we kept the same colour scheme throughout because it looks more professional. We added a drop shadow behind pictures [6] to make them stand out. We used the grab tool [7] allowed us to move different text boxes and images around, but it edit them we had to go back to the black mouse [8]. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [6] [7] [8]