evaluation for our documentary

8/8/2019 Evaluation for Our Documentary

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Evaluation for our documentary

1). In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms

and conventions of real media products?

Picture 1 is a print screen of our documentary beginning, the part with our

documentary title. This title fits with our documentary because it is about education. The newspaper cut outs make it seem more effective.

Picture 2 is a print screen from the student protest, due to the rising tuition fees

the government have so gladly decided to make, so that our country can be put

back into order again. It is a long shot, so that more detail can easily fit in.

Picture 3 is a print screen of an interview cut with Starbuck Coleman, about

what he feels the tuition fees increase has created. His name is in a blue

rectangular foreground, and is in white writing. These two colours stand out from each other, and from the background, so that you can see it clearly.

Picture 4 is a print screen of more newspaper cut outs with a voiceover saying,

Students are facing an average debt of £15000 a year, and this is what would

become even worse as the tuition fees rise.



Picture 5 is a print screen of an interview cut from Andrew Rosindell. As you can

see, it is split up into two things. One is the interview of Andrew Rosindell, and

the other is a part of what he says, put into text format. This is usually found in

some documentaries. If not, then found on the news, usually with the phone call

conversation.

Picture 6 is a print screen of students working in an apprenticeship. This

apprenticeship is engineering, and this is one of the many jobs found in

apprenticeships. The voiceover in the documentary, tells you that there are over

190 apprentices, and our documentary shows a few of these.

Picture 7 is a print screen of a cutaway. This cutaway is of parliament, and there

is also an insert of 2 MPs that you see throughout these few cutaways. This is not

usually seen in documentaries, so we made an exception and decided to use the

insert in that way.

Picture 8 is another cutaway, with a voiceover talking about debt . This is a

cartoon picture, which clearly gives you an understanding of student debt. Most

people would react to this picture with laughter, and therefore would watch

more of the documentary.

Picture 9 is a print screen of another interview with students who were at the

protest, and how they thought the protest was like. You hear them saying that this protest with the passionate protesters getting violent, was a long time

coming, ever since the government decided to increase the tuition fees.

You may have noticed that the logo HCTV is in all of these print screens, as this is

the production of our documentary. HCTV means Havering College Television,

and Havering College is where our documentary was made.



2). How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary

texts?

The effectiveness of my main product and ancillary texts is that they all fit with

our documentary Education Treadmill. The documentary we have done is about

education in Universities and Apprentices, and the differences between them.

With my newspaper advert, there are two piles of books, which give you the

understanding that it is to do with education. The logo HCTV is also on this

poster, so that you know that it is to do with the same thing. As well as this, the

poster has things that the documentary hasnt, like for instance, the date and

time that it will be aired. Well, thats what adverts are needed for, to give thedetails not given in the documentary. This is also included in my radio trailer so

that people, who listen to radio, would still get an advert for our documentary.

This combination of texts would give a wide variety of audience feedback and

also give them something to think about, before they decide to watch the entire

documentary. We have also been told to make a voiceover commentary for our

documentary, which must be at least two and half minutes or at most two and

half minutes.

The voiceover commentary would be very effective, as it would tell you about

what our documentary is expected to show you. Being only two and half

minutes, there must be a lot of stuff involved, as a lot of things need to be

explained. Alexs group in media A2, has done a voiceover commentary for his

music video, and that is very effective, telling you what the video is about and

what it includes.

3). What have you learned from your audience feedback?

As our media product is on youtube, we would have had audience feedback on

the finished result. And as our finished result is about University, Apprentices



and has the student protest, we may have a fair amount of replies, or of course I

could be wrong. When I checked the video, it only said 25 views and 1 like. This

is bad for our documentary, because I dont think our audience is able to reply to

our video, unless they dont know what they are looking for.

Taking our questionnaire from our pre-production, we had used the results that

we gained, to help us make our documentary as good as we could. As well as

this, now that the documentary is complete, there is another questionnaire that

is going around. Its a questionnaire I done, for audience feedback on the

completed product.

The above questionnaire is a print screen of a completed questionnaire,

answered in light with our completed documentary. This questionnaire was

completed by one of our audience, his name is Charlie, and he has given us clear,

critical answers to each question.



y 1). Which idea out of the above, did you like or prefer the best?

y The idea to use various cutaways in order to keep the audiences

attentions very clever.

y 2). Why did you like or prefer this idea?

y I choose that choice because it gives it a professional look.

y 3). In what ways do you think it reflects the typical generic conventions of

other types of Documentary, or other Documentaries within this genre?y It shows the information needed and doesnt leave anything out, which is

something that you would need in an educational documentary..

y 4). What improvements would you suggest to us, for us to reflect on?

y I believe it would have been much more true if it were a young student

voiceover and not an establishment voice of a certain class and age that

says BBC Radio 4.

The above text marked with bullets, are the answers to the four questions in the

questionnaire. These answers came as a reply back to me as an e-mail using

messenger, and they are also critical for our documentary. Question 4 clearly

tells you if there could be any improvements to suggest, so that we can reflect on

this. His reply to the question is, I believe it would have been much more true if

it were a young student voiceover and not an establishment voice of a certainclass and age. This is a strong criticism, and we couldve included a younger

student in with our documentary. We can improve on this next time we do a

documentary like this.



Another questionnaire Ive been given back, with answers, is from a female

student, and she admits to spotting no faults in the documentary in with

question 4. The below text has the answers to this questionnaire reply.

y 1). Which idea out of the above, did you like or prefer the best?

y Cutaways that fit with the voice over.

y 2). Why did you like or prefer the idea?

y I think it made the whole documentary flow very naturally.

y 3). In what ways do you think it reflects the typical generic conventions of

other types of Documentary, or other Documentaries within the same

genre?

y It has the same look and feel as other documentaries, the same general

conventions.

y 4). What improvements would you suggest to us, for us to reflect on?

y I actually found no faults whilst watching this video and think you did a

very good job. Well done.

This we can also reflect on, and it seems that we dont need to make any

improvements in her eyes. But also, I think the list I made, isnt really that good.

It feels as though I didnt make enough choices, but all the ideas in the list are

what I could find in the documentary.

So this question is now concluding with this. There have been clear explanations

to what we have learned from our audience feedback, by the use of e-mailing

questionnaires, and giving people printouts of the same thing. We have had



answers to the printouts, and there has been a clear explanation to what we

learned from this.

4). How did you use new media technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation stages?

One type of media software I have used is messenger. This isnt new software I

have used, because I began using this to send messages last year, so I knew how

to use it. When I used messenger, I sent a questionnaire around to people I knew

about the documentary, so that I could get some feedback for the evaluation. I

had managed to get some feedback, and the feedback is written in the 3 rd

question.

As well as this, in order to begin this evaluation, final cut pro was needed. Final

cut pro is where the editing took place, and its a great piece of software to use

for the beginning of editing. For the evaluation, the finished edit had to be placed

onto an empty disc, which Thibaut kindly did for me. The edit from final cut pro

was converted onto the disc, for the evaluation to commence.



The above picture isnt a complete picture of final cut pro, but its the closest to

final cut pro without all the editing of tapes etc. For most of our research, we

used different Internet sources to complete the work we were given. That way,

we could then place the work onto blogger.

For blogger, we had to place all the work onto it, and make it neat as well. The

use of Scribd was very important, because we needed to keep our work in a neat

format, and Scribd was the best thing for it.

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