In what way does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

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What have you learned from your audience feedback?

After interviewing one person for my audience feedback, i have learnt that out documentary could have been a bit more different, other than that we did pretty well. We interviewed Teme who is a student at college. She said that the beginning of our documentary, when we have the cutaway of different magazines being chucked was very "professional", shows the audience that we used different techniques to make our documetary stand out.

The next question which was asked was "In what ways do you think it reflects generic conventions of fashion? Teme has said to believe that we followed all conventions as we included all the main bits, for example interviews, cutaways, voiceovers etc. Shows people who are watching this that we did follow all conventions in order to create a good documentary and made it as informative as possible.

What improvements would you suggest? Teme pointed out that if we actually filmed something from a live fashion event, would have made our documentary much better because it will show how we tried out different areas, and worked hard at finding things that have to do with our Fashion Tribes topic. However at the time of when we were doing our production, we were unable to film any fashion shows because there was no shows going on when we were free to film.

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

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Radio Trailer

Natasha's radio trailor 2010 by peterotus

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Documentary Analysis

In this documentary i will be analysing certain screen shots of it, using the four technical aspects. Wich include, editing, cinematography, mis-en-scene and sound.
The documentary which i have chosen comes from newsnight. It is about a former agent who had been tortured in uzbekistan by the people of the president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sARab9ahAg&feature=related...

 

The first screen shot i show, non diegetic sound is being played whilst showing the fighting. This sound goes in contrast with what is actually happening in this very scene, as the music played is very classical and slow... almost adding on more emotion, as what is happening is dreadfull and sad. Also the lighting in this scene is very low. This is used to add more tension in the scene, so the viewers are kept more interested into what is happening in this very scene. A medium shot has been used, so we can have a clear shot of the action taking place, aswell as it focusing on the main domains of the picture, which is the police officer fighting a woman.

In this screenshot, we can see that at the bottom right hand corner, the "bbc world news"- has been placed there so everyone can establish who is this documentary by. This enables them to publicize their channel. Also the footage taken is in black and white. This informs the audience that the video is old. This makes the documentary seem much more convincing and interesting, because the  footage is real and has been taken a while back, so we know that the topic that is being presented, has been going on for years. This shot is a medium wide shot, this is used to set the location and the scene. In this case there is a big riot, with the people and the police. This represents that there is havoc in their country that cant be resolved as it is all out of place.

The next screen shot i have chosen is a wide shot. The wide shot is used to set the scene, in this case it is a very clean and calm place, which goes against the story which he is tellin, which is violent and painfull. In this shot the two men are put in almost spot lights, where everything around them has been turned into black and white. This is done to highlight the importance of the two men who are now walking off to talk about the confession. Without mis-en-scene there would not be much detail in the documentary. The costume design is very eligant and sofisticated. This makes the documentary seem much serious and important as their clothes represent this.

 This screenshot shows alot of emotion of the main guy in the documentary. The director has done this by having a closeup shot of the mans face. This increases the tension and really focuses on his story with indepth.  "i see this nightmares in my dreams". This dialogue used is distressing. It connotes to the audience that this man has been scard for life by the tragedy he has had to face. The lighting in the back of the window is very high key. This represents freedom. As he is in a room now sharing the tragedy, behined there is light showing that his dispears are secluded around him, but outside is hope. The editor also blurs out the content behined him, so that the man is the main subject here and the main importance.

My Role In The Group

My role in our group is as Editor:
This means that i would be in charge of how our documentary/production will come together. My role would consist me of being responsible of camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects. As editor i will have to work very closely with my director so i have a idea of what she is trying to portray in the footage that she will direct, in hope that i will get a desired end result.