Coursework
Evaluation:
by
Sou
Manhsinh


In
what
ways
does
your
media
product
use,
develop
or
challenge
forms
and
conventions

of
real
media
products?

To
begin
our
project
we
started
off
watching
a
range
of
documentaries
to
give
us
an
idea
on

how
a
real
life
documentary
should
be.
As
a
class
we
watched
the
documentary
film

‘Supersize
Me’
‐
a
man
called
Morgan
Spurlock
who
underwent
a
30
day
diet
of
eating

McDonald’s
food
and
only
McDonald’s
food.
The
style
of
the
documentary
was
a
mixture
of

fly
on
the
wall
filming,
visual
diary
entries
(filmed
by
Spurlock
himself)
and
formal
interviews

with
professional
people;
these
are
the
kinds
of
conventions
we
hope
to
incorporate
all
of

these
aspects
into
our
very
own
documentary.
We
then
watched
examples
of
former
media

student’s
work
to
see
what
material
is
expected

from
us.
After
brainstorming
ideas,
we
came
to

the
decision
that
‘Teenagers’
will
be
our
theme

for
our
documentary.
We
then
researched
into

the
topic
by
finding
articles,
watching

interviews
and
documentaries
–
one
video
clip

we
came
across
was
a
news
report
done
by

‘News
at
5’
about
teenagers.
This
was
the

perfect
video
to
take
inspiration
from
as
they

were
covering
the
same
type
of
topic
we
were

looking
for.
Although
it
was
just
a
2
minute
news
report,
we
can
use
this
as
a
base
for
our

documentary,
in
terms
of
storyline,
mise‐en‐scene
and
how
the
interviews
were
taken.

Another
documentary
we
looked
at
was
another
film
documentary
called
‘My
Big
Fat
Gypsy

Wedding’
which
was
filmed
and
distributed
by
Channel
4.
This
follows
the
lives
of
Gypsy

families
on
the
road
and
how
they
have
adapted
to
their
lifestyles.
The
film
received
such
a

positive
response
that
it
has
now
become
a
weekly
programme
for
channel
4.
Once

watching
all
the
documentaries
and
doing
the
necessary
research
we
are
now
going
to

incorporate
the
codes
and
conventions
into
our
own
documentary.
In
terms
of
format
we

focused
on
camera
shots,
background
footage
and
the
styling
of
the
documentary
–
we
took

inspiration
mainly
from
the
first
documentary
we
watched
that
was
‘Supersize
Me’.



The
documentary
contains
styles
that
we

thought
were
appealing
to
our
target

audience
in
particular
‐
teenagers
and

young
adults.
‘Supersize
Me’
used
a
lot
of

cutaway
shots
particularly
when
Spurlock

narrates
and
he
uses
a
lot
of
background

footage
to
back
up
what
he
is
saying
‐
this

was
a
good
convention
to
use
as
this
keeps

the
audience
focus
and
not
drifting
off


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

whilst
watching
the
documentary;
for
example
while
he
was
reading
out
the
statistics
in
the

beginning
of
the
documentary
the
scene
cut
away
into
images
of
McDonald’s,
food,
maps

and
visual
illustrations
for
the
comic
effect.


We
decided
to
use
this
convention
in

our
documentary
by
using
a
lot
of

background
footage
and
whilst
during

an
interview
or
when
the
voiceover
is

narrating
we
would
use
a
piece
of
film

to
navigate
the
words.
Such
as
the

interview
with
Media
Studies
teacher

Nick
Warring
whilst
he
was
talking

about
teenagers
in
the
media
we

cutaway
into
images
of
searching
the

internet,
news
articles
on
websites

and
images
of
teenagers
in
‘their

nature’.
I
was
really
impressed
on
how
much
background
footage
we
managed
to
get
and

how
relevant
it
was
to
a
particular
part
of
the
documentary,
even
if
it
was
random
footage

of
teenagers
walking
or
posters
we
found,
we
managed
to
incorporate
all
the
clips
in
to
our

documentary
and
I
think
that
is
a
strong
point
to
our
documentary
that
we
used
a
good

amount
of
cutaway
shots
to
keep
the
audience’s
attention
throughout
the
5
minutes
of
our

documentary.



The
format
of
interviews
is
vital
in
any
documentary;
we
have
used
both
formal
and

informal
interviews
in
our
documentary.
The
formal
interviews
that
we
have
done
are
all

professional
people.
The
mise‐en‐scene
in
the
interviews
are
important
as
for
the


documentary
to
be
taken
seriously
we
wanted
the
right
setting
and
camera
angles.

Watching
3
types
of
documentaries
all
from
different
backgrounds
and
genres
showed
us

that
the
styling
of
how
interviews
are
set
out
are
all
carried
in
the
same
format.
Always
in

interviews
the
person
never
looks
straight
into
the
camera,
they
always
looked
at
the

interviewer
and
we
managed
to
achieve
this
convention
in
all
our
interviews.
In
each

interview,
the
interviewee
is
filmed
in
their
place
of
work
or
natural
surroundings
–
which


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

gives
the
audience
an
idea
of
who
is
being
interviewed
and
what
their
profession
was
if
they

happen
to
miss
the
caption.



Here
is
how
the
interviews
were
set
in
the
documentary.




The
informal
interviews
such
as
the
voxpops
were
easy
to
interpret
as
they
were
just
any

members
of
the
public
being
quickly
interviewed.
There
is
no
need
for
captions
and

background
noises
aren’t
blocked
out
too
much

as
the
clip
of
the
interview
is
only
a
few
seconds

long.
However
the
basic
codes
of
an
interview
still

apply,
as
the
interviewee
is
still
filmed
in
their

nature
of
place
(in
our
case,
many
of
our
students

were
filmed
at
college)
and
they
were
not
looking

directly
at
the
camera.





For
voiceover,
we
used
a
member
of
our
group
(Bethan
Milgate)
to
do
the
voiceover
for
our

documentary.
We
recorded
it
straight
after
all
our
editing
so
we
could
get
our
script
for
the

documentary
perfect.
I
thought
it
was
clear
and
understandable.
The
script
we
wrote
for
it

fitted
well
into
the
theme
in
terms
of
our
choice
of
words
and
phrases,
as
we
needed
to

appeal
to
our
target
audience,
if
they
felt
there
was
too
formal
and
there
was
too
much

voiceover
then
I
think
the
teenagers
to
our
target
audience
would
lose
their
interest.
I

thought
the
timing
of
the
script
aswell
was
well
paced
and
we
didn’t
over
accelerate
by

speaking
too
much
over
the
video
clips
as
the
interviews
and
footage
pretty
much
speak
for

themselves
in
the
documentary.



The
background
music
was
a
challenging
aspect
to
our
documentary
as
we
had
to
use
non

copyrighted
music.
We
needed
to
find
a
piece
of
music
that
would
suit
the
genre
of
our

documentary,
but
at
the
same
time
appeal
to
our
audience,
but
not
make
the
tone
of
our

documentary
too
serious
or
even
too
casual
and
also
keep
them
interested
at
the
same

time.
Soon
enough
we
found
a
piece
that
fitted
all
of
the
categories.
While
we
were
editing

we
originally
set
the
music
to
play
while
the
voice
over
was
talking,
however
we
didn’t

realised
while
watching
all
the
way
through
that
it
would
of
sounded
weird
having
music

after
every
other
clip,
so
we
had
to
find
another
piece
of
music
that
was
long
enough
to
last

Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

the
whole
5
minutes
of
the
documentary.
The
piece
of
music
we
chosen
is
quite
a
fast
pace

piece
with
an
up
tempo
sound
to
it.
This
fitted
well
as
it
didn’t
make
our
documentary
seem

to
serious
and
the
pace
of
the
music
worked
well
in
time
with
the
clips
and
voiceover.
I

guess
while
you’re
watching
a
documentary
that
the
music
is
always
there
and
you
never

really
notice
it
–
that
is
when
you
can
tell
a
documentary
is
successful
when
you
don’t
really

notice
the
music
as
it
is
fitted
so
well
into
the
clip
and
I
think
the
copyright
music
worked

well
in
our
favour
as
it
made
it
more
original.


One
code
and
convention
that
we
challenged
I

think
was,
when
a
documentary
introduces
a

question
and
then
leads
on
with
a
clip
of
an

interview,
we
came
up
with
our
own
idea

where
instead
of
introducing
the
question
on

voiceover,
we’d
asked
the
question
onscreen

using
a
mobile
phone.
→

This
was
an
original
idea
and
we
have
never

seen
it
been
done
on
any
of
the

documentaries
that
we’d
seen,
so
we
thought

we’d
try
this
idea
and
see
how
it
works
out.
I
thought
it
worked
well
and
really
suited
the

genre
of
our
documentary
as
teenagers
nowadays
are
always
glued
to
their
phones,
and
will

appeal
to
our
target
audience
as
the
majority
of
the
audience
will
be
teenagers.
Another

convention
we
added
to
our
documentary
that
appeal
the
majority
of
the
audience
was
our

little
introduction
of
the
students
holding
the
signs
of
stereotypes,
this
is
my
favourite
part

of
the
documentary
and
I
think
this
gave
out
a
clear
indication
to
the
audience
on
what
the

documentary
is
going
to
be
about.




In
addition
to
our
documentary,
we
also
had
to
create
a
magazine
article
and
a
radio
trailer,

which
promotes
the
documentary.
For
the
magazine
article
we
designed
a
double
page

spread
that
will
feature
in
the
‘What’s
On:
TV’
magazine.
Before
we
began
our
article

however,
we
did
some
research
into
real
professional
TV
magazines.
We
looked
at
a
number

of
popular
magazines
such
as
Radio
Times,
TV
choice,
TV
Times,
TV
&
Satellite,
etc.
But
the

one
magazine
we
focused
on
more
was
‘What’s
On:
TV’
as
we
thought
this
was
the
most

appropriate
magazine
to
promote
our
documentary.
We
looked
at
the
main
codes
and

convention
that
go
into
magazines,
such
as
having
mastheads,
captions,
images,
grab

quotes,
columns,
all
the
basic
features
of
what
a
magazine
article
should
include.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

We
took
an
article
from
‘What’s
On:
TV’
to
analyse
in
more
detail,
this
gave
us
the
bases
on

how
the
layout
is
set
in
‘What’s
On:
TV’
and
how
we
should
adapt
that
into
our
own
article.




Here
is
our
version
of
the
magazine
article:




Compared
to
the
real
magazine
article
our
version
looks
more
serious,
probably
due
to
our

choice
of
colours.
We
included
all
the
main
codes
and
conventions
such
as
Masthead,

byline,
captions,
grab
quotes,
main
texts
in
columns,
images
and
a
consistent
colour

scheme.
Although
the
other
article
didn’t
include
a
banner
or
the
magazine
logo
on
their

article,
we
decided
to
add
these
features
in
to
make
our
article
look
more
realistic
and

professional.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 There
was
some
struggle
into
finding
which
magazine
was
the
best
for

our
documentary
as
most
TV
magazine
are
for
specific
channels
such

as
The
Radio
Times
is
for
BBC
programmes,
while
TV
&
Satellite
is
for

Sky
channels.
Our
chosen
channel
is
channel
4
as

we
know
that
popular
documentaries
are
always

shown
on
channel
4,
such
as
dispatches.
As
our

documentary
is
aimed
at
both
adults
and

teenagers,
we
needed
a
mainstream
channel
that

both
teenagers
and
adults
watch
and
channel
4
fitted
into
that
category.

This
was
the
same
for
finding
the
appropriate
magazine
to
feature
the

documentary
on.


For
our
radio
trailer,
we
had
the
same
difficulty
into
finding
which
radio
station
will
be

suitable
to
promote
our
radio
trailer
on.
We
listened
to
a
wide

range
of
radio
stations
from
Radio
1,
2
to
Capital
FM,
Heart

FM,
etc,
we
came
to
the
conclusion
that’s
the
radio
station

BRMB
will
be
the
most
suitable
for
our
documentary
as
BRMB

is
a
mainstream
station
providing
music
from
the
80’s,
90’s
and

today’s
music
–
music
that
our
target
audience
listen
to,
which

is
a
big
advantage.
They
also
do
advertisement
slots,
which
is
what
we
need
to
promote
the

documentary.



At
the
beginning
of
the
year
we
listened
to
a
few
trailers
and
news
reports
to
find
some

inspiration
on
how
to
go
about
on
creating
out
on
radio
trailer.
The
best
one
we’ve
listen
to,

are
the
ones
on
Radio
1,
although
that
is
not
our
chosen
station,
we
thought
the
quality
of

how
they
do
their
news
reports
and
advertisements
of
their
programmes
came
to
a
high

standard
and
we
wanted
to
reach
for
the
same
level.



While
listening
to
the
many
radio
stations,
we
worked
out
the
main
codes
and
conventions

are
on
radio
trailers
and
wrote
down
what
we
had
to
include
in
our
own
trailer
–
jingles,

clips
from
our
documentary
such
as
interviews
and
voxpops,
voiceover
for
information,
a

backing
track
and
also
short
and
fast
paced.
I
think
we
achieved
all
of
these
conventions
in

our
radio
trailer;
we
used
a
backing
track
that
is
fast
pace
and
doesn’t
over‐shadow
any
of

the
voice
clips,
we
added
sound
effects
such
as
‘tuning
in’
clips
at
the
beginning
and
echoing

at
the
end
of
the
trailer
to
make
the
listener
focus
on
the
last
information
as
its
details

about
the
programme,
the
echoing
effect
also
makes
it
sounds
like
it
last
longer,
which
gives

the
illusion
that
its
stuck
in
your
mind.
We
chosen
the
voxpops
and
interviews
that
stick
out

from
the
others
in
the
documentary
and
highlight
the
main
issues
that
our
documentary
will

be
about.
I
think
our
trailer
is
very
straight
to
the
point
and
ticks
all
the
right
boxes
into
a

good
standard
radio
trailer,
although
its
only
30
seconds
long,
it
contains
all
the
vital

information.
Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

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


The
main
objective
for
the
documentary,
magazine
and
radio
trailer
is
to
make
it
appeal
to

our
target
audience.
As
our
target
audiences

are
teenagers
aged
between
16‐
25
and
adults

over
the
age
of
26,
we
needed
a
very

mainstream
product
to
sell
to
them.
Our

documentary
is
open
for
a
wide
range
of

audiences,
so
gender
and
social
classes
isn’t

really
an
issue
for
our
audience.
However,

people
who
mainly
watch
the
channels
4,
E4,

BBC3
and
are
interested
in
documentaries
are

vital.
More
students
are
likely
to
watch
our

documentary
more
as
the
topic
is
about

teenagers
and
because
the
topic
is
teenagers,
adults/parents
might
be
remotely
interested

to
learn
more
about
the
younger
generation.


The
documentary:


We
included
a
mixture
of
both
teenagers
and
adults
in
our
documentary
to
keep
the

consistency
of
having
the
right
mixture
of
people
for
our
target
audience.
We
got
students

to
do
voxpops
and
then
adults
to
do
the
main
interviews;
which
I
thought,
gave
out
the
right

balance
in
the
documentary.
We
included
opinions
from
both
perspectives
as
we
didn’t

want
to
give
out
a
biased
opinion
against
teenagers
and
we
focused
on
issues
from
both
the

adults
and
teenagers.



The
Magazine
and
Radio
Trailer:

In
terms
of
promotion,
I
think
the
magazine
article
works
in
the
favour
of
promoting
our

documentary
to
the
older
side
of
our
audience
as
we
can
probably
guess
that
not
many

teenagers
buy
the
magazine
‘What’s
On:
TV’.
While
the
radio
trailer
is
for
the
younger

audience
as
more
teenagers
would
listen
to
the
radio
rather
than
buy
a
magazine.



To
keep
the
consistency
of
brand
identity
we
had

to
use
the
same
sorts
of
images,
texts
and
clips

on
all
3
media
products.
Our
main
source
is
the

documentary,
so
that
provided
us
with
all
the

images
and
audio
clips
for
the
magazine
and

radio
trailer.
We
used
the
same
title
for
each
text

to
show
that
we
are
promoting
the
programme

Teenagers:
Good
or
Bad?
We
used
the
same

images
that
appear
in
the
documentary
to

feature
on
our
magazines.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

The
stereotypes
that
feature
on
the
beginning
of
our
documentary
are
part
of
our
magazine

article
↓




We
got
Bethan
to
record
the
voice
over
for
both
the
documentary
and
radio
trailer,
to

indicate
that
we
have
the
same
presenter
from
the
same
programme
that
is
promoting
the

documentary
on
the
radio
trailer.
We
used
two
voxpops
clips
and
an
interview
from
the

documentary
to
feature
on
our
trailer
that
talk
specifically
about
the
main
issues
we
will
be

covering
in
our
documentary
and
will
draw
into
the
attention
of
the
listeners
of
BRMB.



Linking
all
3
media
texts
was
a
difficult
one
in
my
opinion
as
we
had
chosen
a
topic
and

target
audience
that
is
very
broad.
It
was
good
in
the
sense
that
we
can
gain
a
wider

audience
for
our
documentary,
but
this
means
we
had
to
use
appropriate
clips
to
suit
both

the
teenagers
and
the
adults
watching.
Although
we
wanted
mainly
teenagers
to
be
the

majority
of
our
audience,
we
couldn’t
go
totally
into
a
‘teenager
only
zone’
as
we
involved

issues
that
may
concern
adults,
so
we
wanted
adults
to
watch
aswell.
As
our
chosen
channel

was
channel
4,
we
didn’t
have
the
advantage
of
having
a
brand
magazine
to
feature
our

article
on
like
the
BBC
programmes
on
radio
times
or
have
a
particular
radio
station
that

promotes
their
channels
programmes
such
as
Radio
1.
However
on
BRMB,
they
provide

advertisement
slots,
which
work
out
well
for
us
as
listeners
of
BRMB
have
the
same

audience
profile
as
us.
What’s
On:
TV
is
a
magazine
aimed
for
mostly
TV
fanatics,
which
is
a

good
advantage
for
us
to
get
our
article
noticed,
as
they
can
recommend
whether
or
not
a

programme
is
worth
watching.


We
also
did
a
questionnaire
for
our
3

productions
and
one
of
the
questions
we

asked
was
whether
or
not
all
3
productions

have
a
consistent
‘brand
identity’
and
the

majority
of
the
voters
agreed
that
all
3

consisted
‘brand
identity’.
This
showed
that

we
were
successful
on
linking
all
3
media

products
together.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

What
have
you
learned
from
your
audience
feedback?


After
officially
completing
all
3
media
texts,
we
had
to
carry
out
questionnaires
to
receive

some
audience
feedback
on
all
our
media
texts.
We
created
3
different
sets
of

questionnaires
for
the
documentary,
magazine
article
and
radio
trailer
and
printed
out
20

sets
each
for
our
media
class
to
fill
out.
We
used
a
range
of
open,
closed
questions
and

rating
questions
so
we
can
gain
as
much
feedback
as
possible.
I
will
display
the
results
in
the

form
of
graphs
and
then
explaining
the
results
underneath.


Results
for
Documentary:




We
first
asked
the
basic
questions
of
age
and
gender
in
the
questionnaire
to
show
us
the

age
range
of
who
is
watching
our
documentary
and
whether
or
not
the
opinions
they
give

later
on
differ
from
one
another
on
their
intake
on
what
our
documentary
is
about
and
if

their
ideas
are
universal
between
the
males
and
the
females
or
are
they
completely

different.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
then
went
straight
into
asking
whether
or
not
our
documentary
went
through
enough

resources
and
information
for
our
chosen
topic.
Everybody
answered
yes,
which
meant
that

we
were
successful
in
providing
the
right
clips
and
interviews
in
the
documentary.




As
our
target
audience
is
aimed
at
both
teenagers
and
adults,
we
wanted
to
find
out
if
the

viewers
thought
same.
The
majority
of
the
votes
said
that
our
documentary
is
aimed
at

teenagers
aged
15‐18
and
19‐25,
which
meant
that
we
achieved
our
objective
of
making
our

documentary
viewable
for
both
adults
and
teenagers
and
it
was
clear
to
the
audience
who

the
documentary
was
for.




We
then
asked
if
our
music
and
mise‐en‐scene
suited
our
documentary,
was
the
tone
of
the

music
suitable.
The
majority
of
the
viewers
said
yes
–
with
the
majority
vote,
it
looked
like

we
picked
the
right
piece
of
music
for
our
documentary.
As
for
mise‐en‐scene,
all
the

viewers
voted
yes
for
choosing
the
right
places
to
film
our
interviews
and
voxpops.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
asked
what
the
best
features
on
our
documentary
were
and
which
were
effective.
As

you
can
see
this
is
a
mixed
response,
which
shows
that
everything
in
our
documentary
was

effective
and
relevant
to
our
topic.
This
meant
that
our
documentary
was
successful
in
all

areas
of
the
codes
and
conventions
we
used
in
the
documentary.




We
then
asked
if
the
viewers
would
actually
watch
our
documentary
on
our
chosen
channel

that
is
channel
4
and
whether
or
not
it
was
suitable
for
that
specific
channel.
The
majority
of

the
viewers
voted
yes,
while
one
suggested
that
our
documentary
should
be
aired
on
BBC3

(which
we
actually
considered,
but
decided
against
it)
as
a
result,
we
had
chosen
the
right

channel
to
air
our
documentary
on
and
the
viewers
agree.




We
then
asked
how
our
documentaries
compare
to
other
real
documentaries
and
is
it

leveled
up
to
that
kind
of
standard.
The
majority
of
the
viewers
agreed
that
we
achieved
a

believable
documentary
and
circled
it
very
good.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
asked
viewers
if
they
found
our
documentary
interesting
and
give
reasons
into
what

they
liked
about
it.
100%
of
the
viewers
answered
yes
and
said
that
they
thought
it
was
an

interesting
topic
to
focus
on,
it
relates
back
to
them
as
a
teenager
and
they
didn’t
find
it

boring
–
which
is
really
the
main
point
of
the
documentary.




We
finally
asked
what
needed
improving
on
our
documentary
and
whether
or
not
our
title

was
suitable
for
our
topic.
The
majority
of
the
viewers
said
that
the
opening
sequence

needed
improvement,
which
I’m
quite
surprised
at
as
I
thought
that
was
our
strongest

feature
and
my
favourite
bit
of
the
documentary.
Although,
35%
thought
that
the
title
of

the
documentary
isn’t
as
promising
as
it
sounds,
90%
of
the
viewers
thought
it
was
simple

but
effective,
which
is
what
we
wanted
from
the
title.



Judging
from
these
results
it
looked
like
everybody
liked
our
documentary
and
we
had

achieved
all
our
objectives
in
choosing
the
right
target
audience,
channel
and
creating
a

good
documentary
that
in
suited
for
both.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

Results
for
magazine
article




Firstly
we
asked
the
readers
what
was
their
first
impression
of
the
magazine
article.
The

majority
of
the
readers
thought
that
the
magazine
looked
appealing
to
them
while,
5%

disagreed
and
voted
poor.




We
then
asked
them
on
what
they
thought
about
the
layout
of
the
article
and
if
it
attracts

you
into
wanting
to
watch
the
documentary.
The
majority
agreed
that
the
layout
was
very

good,
while
others
voted
good
and
average.
The
readers
also
voted
yes
for
the
magazine

wanted
them
to
watch
the
documentary,
while
the
rest
voted
no.




We
then
asked
the
viewers
to
rate
the
quality
of
text
and
images
in
the
article.
As
you
can

see
both
have
received
a
mixture
of
results.
The
majority
of
results
for
texts
rated
that
the

quality
of
text
was
above
the
score
of
6.
In
terms
of
the
quality
of
images,
the
results
are
the

same
with
the
readers
rating
the
images
above
the
score
of
6.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
then
asked
the
readers
to
rate
from
1
–
10
(1
being
not
suitable)
if
our
article
was

suitable
for
our
target
audience
of
teenagers
aged
16‐
20.
Again
this
was
a
mixture
of
results

but
the
majority
rated
above
the
score
of
5
for
suitability.



From
these
results,
it
looks
like
there
is
a
mixture
of
opinions
for
the
magazine
article.
I
felt

that
the
article
was
our
weakest
product
out
of
the
3
media
texts,
however
most
of
these

results
gave
a
positive
outcome
for
the
magazine,
which
meant
that
we
created
and

achieved
an
acceptable
magazine
article
to
promote
our
documentary.


Results
for
Radio
Trailer




We
firstly
asked
the
most
important
question
and
that
was
whether
the
sound
quality
of
our

radio
trailer
was
good
enough.
85%
of
the
listeners
voted
‘very
good’,
while
the
rest
voted

good,
which
shows
us
that
everything
was
clear
and
up
to
a
good
standard.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
then
asked
the
listeners
on
what
they
thought
about
the
music
and
voiceover
in
the

trailer.
The
majority
voted
that
our
choice
of
background
music
was
very
good
to
average

and
that
the
voice
over
was
very
good
also.





We
asked
whether
our
radio
trailer
would
attract
the
listener
into
watching
our

documentary.
85%
of
the
listeners
voted
yes,
while
15%
said
no.




The
majority
of
the
listeners
agreed
that
our
radio
trailer
is
suitable
for
our
target
audience

of
16‐
20
year
olds,
while
5%
voted
no
and
said
that
it
should
be
aimed
at
a
much
older

audience.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

 

We
asked
whether
or
not
our
radio
trailer
suited
our
choice
radio
station
that
was
BRMB.

100%
of
the
listeners
voted
yes
and
thought
that
it
suited
our
chosen
radio
station.


From
these
results,
this
shows
that
our
radio
trailer
was
successful
into
creating
an

acceptable
radio
trailer
to
promote
our
documentary.
We
managed
to
achieved
all
the

codes
and
conventions
and
portray
them
well
in
the
trailer.



Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

How
did
you
use
media
technologies
in
the
construction
and
research
and
planning
and

evaluation
stages?


There
are
many
technologies
that
we
have
used
throughout
this
project,
ranging
from

cameras,
to
microphones,
to
computers
and
Apple
Macs,
etc.



For
the
research
and
planning
stage,
we
used
the
internet
and
our
own
resource
and

knowledge
to
do
our
research.
In
the
early
stages
of
working
in
the
classroom,
we

handwrote
everything
such
as
brainstorming
our
ideas
into
what
top
we
should
do,
to
how

we
should
set
out
the
documentary
and
the
places
to
find
these
sources.
Whatever
planning

we
did,
we
made
sure
we
transferred
all
our
ideas

on
to
our
blog;
here
you’ll
find
all
of
our
blog

entries
that
my
group
has
done.
I
used
Microsoft

PowerPoint,
to
display
our
brainstorm
of
ideas
and

put
it
as
a
blog
entry.



When
researching
into
our
chosen
topic
that
is

teenagers,
we
browsed
the
internet
into
finding
anything

remotely
linking
to
teenagers.
We
went
on
Google
and

typed
in
‘Teenagers’
to
see
what
results
we
could
find.

We
found
lots
of
news
reports
on
the
BBC
website
old

and
new
and
we
put

links
on
our
blog
to

show
where
we’re

finding
the
resources
to
create
our
documentary. 


We
also
went
onto
YouTube
to
find
previous
news

reports,
clips
or
home
videos
that
TV
channels
or
other

people
have
up
loaded
that
involve

teenagers
to
feature
on
our
documentary.
Again,
we
have
uploaded
an

embedding
link
onto
our
blog.


The
construction
process
of
the
project,
we
used
many
different
technologies.
For
the

filming
process
we
used
a
camera
‐
Canon
HG20
camcorder,
a
tripod
–
to
keep
all
our

footage
straight
and
shots
in
frame
and
a
microphone
boom
and
headset
–
to
record
all
our

interviews
and
voiceover.
Before
we
went
off
to
do
our
recording,
we
watched
a
small

tutorial
of
how
to
work
the
camera
and
tripod
as
an

introductory
lesson
to
start
us
off.
These
objects
were
very

easy
to
use
and
we
had
no
difficultly
whilst
recording
around

college
and
Solihull.
After
each
session
of
filming,
we

uploaded
all
our
footage
onto
the
Apple
MACS
using
the

cameras
USB
lead.
We
had
almost
3
weeks
of
filming,
so

each
lesson
we
tried
to
film
as
much
as
we
can
possible.



Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

During
the
filming
process,
for
our
background
footage,
we
had
to
go
into
Solihull
to
film
the

streets
and
shops
to
feature
in
the
documentary.
We
had
to
email
the
members
of

Touchwood,
Solihull
to
see
if
we
are
able
to
film
in
the
town
centre.
We
also
had
to
contact

Solihull
Police
Station
by
email
to
arrange
an
interview
beforehand,
before
we
started

filming.
We
have
uploaded
all
of
our
replies
onto
the
blog.






 

We
uploaded
all
our
footage
onto
the
Apple
Macs
using
the
USB

lead
provided.
We
made
our
own
folder
onto
the
video
drive
of

the
Apple
Mac
so
all
our
saved
clips
will
be
backed
up
and

wouldn’t
get
lost
if
anything
was
to
happen
to
them.





We
are
now
ready
to
begin
our
editing
process.
We

had
4
weeks
to
edit
and
produce
our
documentary.

We
used
the
program
‘Final
Cut
Express’
to
do
all
of

our
editing.
We
first
had
to
log
and
transfer
all
our

clips
onto
the
program,
so
we
had
to
cut
and
delete

any
unwanted
footage
or
cut
down
any
unnecessary

footage
on
certain
clips.
We
then
imported
all
the

clips
onto
a
separate
file
where
our
video
will
be

edited.
Final
cut
express
was
easy
to
use
once
you

get
use
to
the
Apple
Macs;
everything
was
all
drag

and
drop
and
using
the
tools
such
as
adding
an
effect

was
simple
aswell.
We
managed
to
finish
all
our
editing
in
the
allotted
time
and
I’m
very

pleased
with
the
outcome
of
our
documentary,
considering
the
fact
I
have
never
used
the

program
‘Final
Cut
Express’
as
I’m
not
a
regular
user
of
Apple
Macs.

Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

On
to
the
radio
trailer,
we
used
the
same
process
of
filming
and
recording
for
the

documentary,
but
instead
we
didn’t
do
any
filming,
we
just
recorded
the
voice
over
for
the

trailer.
We
used
previous
clips
from
the
documentary
to
base
our
voice
over
and
then
added

them
to
the
trailer.
We
then
uploaded
the
clips
onto
the
Apple
Macs
in
the
same
way
as
the

documentary
and
then
logged
and
transferred
chosen
clips
onto
a
separate
file.
We
created

the
bases
of
the
trailer
such
as
editing
together
the
voice
over,
interviews
and
voxpops
on

‘Final
Cut
Express’
and
then
saved
it
as
an
audio
file
and
made
adjustments
to
it
in
the

program
‘Garage
Band’.
‘Garage
Band’
is
a
similar
program
to
‘Final
Cut
Express’
but
its
use

is
purely
just
for
music
based
items.
It
has
more
variety
in
sounds
and
effects,
which
we

used
to
our
full
advantage
on
the
trailer.
Compared
to
‘Final
Cut
Express’
the
level
of

accessibility
and
easiness
is
the
same,
but
‘Garage
Band’
did
have
more
of
selection
of

effects
which
I
enjoyed
and
had
more
fun
with.




As
for
the
magazine
article,
we
used
our
skills
from
the
previous

year
of
creating
our
own
magazines
on
the
programs
Photoshop

and
In
Design.
We
first
wrote
the
main
texts
onto
Microsoft
word

as
it
is
easier
to
write
on
a
word
documentary
rather
than
writing
it

straight
onto
In
Design,
as
we
might
lose
the
text
if
anything

happened
and
we
know
we’d
have
a
back
up
saved
on
the

computer.
We
then
created
the
magazine
on
In
Design.
We
took

pictures
from
our
documentary
to
use
as
main
images
on
the
article.
To
save
the
images
we

screen
capped
the
video
on
the
scene
that
we
wanted
as
a
picture
and
saved
the
files
as
still

images.
We
then
edited
the
pictures
on
Photoshop,
to
add
in
effects
or
to
just
purely
resize

the
pictures.
We
then
began
to
work
on
the
layout
of
our
magazine.

We
used
effects
such
as
shadowing
on
both
the
images
and
texts,
we

made
our
own
flashes
and
banners
and
created
grab
quotes
from
the

interview
to
anchor
an
certain
image.
As
we
had
previous
experience

on
using
the
programs
In
Design
and
Photoshop,
there
was
no
trouble

in
creating
our
magazine
article.





Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring

And
here
is
the
outcome
of
our
magazine
article:




After
7
weeks
and
filming
and
editing
we
finally
finished
our
project!
The
final
thing
we
had

to
do,
was
burn
our
documentary
on
to
DVD
discs
to
take
home
and
of
course
hand
it
in
to

our
teacher!
To
do
this
we
used
the
program
iDVD
6
on
the
Apple
Macs,
where
we
just
drag

the
movie
file
onto
the
disk
menu
on
the
program
and
then
it
would
just
simply
burns
the

movie
file
on
to
the
blank
DVD
disc. We
are
now
able
to
watch
our
documentary
from
the

comfort
of
our
own
home!


Our
last
and
final
task
is
to
gather
some
audience
feedback
from

our
fellow
class
mates
on
what
they
think
of
our
3
media
texts.

We
designed
3
questionnaires
for

each
media
text
and
then
wrote

them
up
on
Microsoft
Word.
We
printed
out
20
copies
each

to
hand
out
to
our
class
and
then
transferred
the
results
on

the
program
Microsoft
excel
to
produce
pie
charts
to
display

our
results.
The
results
are
now
up
on
our
blog.


Sou
Manhsinh

A2
Media
Studies
‐
Nick
Waring