Tuesday 7 December 2010

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Documentary Commentary

Dvd commentary- Script
We decided to use the song teenage kicks by the undertones as it would successfully represent teenagers and also in our target audience it would remind them of their teenager years
We used black and white coloured pictures to show the way teenagers have changed dramatically in the past 50 years
We interviewed Mr Jeff Hughes as he is a highschool headteacher and so deals with teenagers every day we decided to use relevant cutaways during his interview to break it up a bit and keep the audience interested
We then interviewed Mr Ron Stromberg a parent of teenagers on his opinions of teenage violence
We decide to use cutaways of teenagers as they would relate to our documentaryWe then used a series of cutaways and footage of the Millbank riots to show how the media portray teenagers and how this effects the overall impression of teenagers in general
We then cut to our voxpops as we find it important that the public should be able to have their say on topics such as this.We then cut to images of teenagers as we were presenting important information in our voice over about the statistics of teenage antisocial behaviour
We then cut back to Mr Stromberg to get a parents view on if there is more teenage violence than in the past when he was a teenager an how the influence of weapons has changed the outcome of teenage fights
We then cut to Mr Hughes as his opinion is a complete contrast to that of Mr Stromberg
We cut to Miss Emily Patterson to get a teenage perspective
Then we cut to Mrs Margaret Marshall to get a grandparents view
Followed by Mr Steve Patterson to get another pa
rents perspective on what could be done to stop teenage violence
We used a clip of Worlds Strictest Parents to show how teenagers are stereotyped as drunk louts which are irresponsible and only care about getting drunk playing games and having sex
We then cut back to Mrs Marshall to ask her what she thinks teenage violence is caused by and how this effects her, we used cutaways to further te point of teenage violence
We then asked Ms Susan Ashurst a teacher at a local highschool on her opinions of teenage violence and how teenagers act whilst in school we used relevant cutaways to break the interview up as it might have been t
oo long to some members of our target audience
We then used a clip of Kidulthood a fictional account of teenage behaviour which brands itself to be as close to real life as is possible.
We then asked Mr Andrew Marshall on his views of teenage stereotyping and teenage violence
We finally asked Mr Patterson on how teenagers could improve their stereotyped image to one of a better nature

*Unfortunately blogger and Youtube do not accept WAV. files, I am currently working to convert my commentary audio into another format to upload*
My media product conforms to the basic conventions of a real media product as it uses cutaways to further points made by the interviewee as was the issue of framing and making sure the shot looked professional in the time allotted to it, we looked at many documentaries to study their various framing techniques and what would look best in our documentary, we found that a majority of documentaries film the interviewee a quarter of the way into the frame with their head three quarters of the way up the frame to ensure that the audience are watching the interviewee and there is nothing distracting them.

We found from our target audience research that our audience’s favourite colour was red so we used red in our titles to relate to
this, we did this to ensure that the target audience would enjoy the documentary as there is nothing worse than the target audience being dissatisfiesd with the end product.

We also left space for introduction titles to be inserted so that our audience would be able to identify with the interviewee. We also used a majority of plain backgrounds so that our interviewees would be the main focus of the documentary rather than the images and shapes in the background.


This documentary advert follows the basic codes and conventions of a channel 4 documentary advert as it used
A Channel 4 logo
A photo-shopped relevant image
All documentary information is in a box
All information is relevant










Our documentary also follows these codes and conventions as it also has
A Channel 4 logo
A photo-shopped image that is relevant to the topic of the documentary
Documentary information is in a box
Documentary information is relevant to the audience





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