EVALUATION: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

           

                                       

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

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EVALUATION: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback

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

Audience feedback.

Newspaper advertisement production.

Before Lydia made the newspaper advert she had to plan out on paper what she would include, once she had done so she then took the photographs that we needed to create the newspaper advert in Photoshop.

This is a picture of a window that has been enlarged to fit 2 thirds of the screen to emphasis that there is outside and inside to the advert.

 She then added a black background to ensure that the bottom of the screen wasn't a plain colour.

 Next she added a photograph of a teenager playing an xbox and enlarged her by pressing ctrl+T

 She then cut around the edge of the teenager using the polygonal lasso tool, which ensure that she didn't get sharp edges around the image and the shape was still kept.

 She then added a buzz light year behind the third layer or the teenager, and enlarged the image my using ctrl+T, she tilted him slightly to the left to ensure the toy could be seen end emphasis the fact the toy was looking over her shoulder to come in.

 Next an action man figure was added, and enlarged again by using ctrl+T.

 Next a teddy bear was added, she made sure it was in front of the action figure but still behind the teenager, she also made sure that it was large enough to see the detail of the sad mouth.

 Next the channel 4 logo was added to the left of the advert. she ensured that it was positioned correctly and could be see against the background.

 

She then clicked the Rectangle tool and created a white box on the bottom left for the text of the show to be put on.

 Another box was added on top of the first rectangle, she then ensured that they were both coloured in white to make the text stand out against the dark background.

 The slogan of the documentary was then added to the first box by using the text tool and changing the size of the font to 36pt.

 The title, date of scheduling and the time was then added to the lower box, again using the text tool, ensuring the text colour was black and the size to be 23pt.

This was then the finished product that Lydia created for our newspaper article in Photoshop.



Drafting newspaper advertisement.

My group, Me, Lydia and Jess sat down when drafting our newspaper advertisement and all proposed a few ideas for the advertisement that would work well with our documentary and convey are slogan "You coming out to play?" we all decided together that the best concept would be to have a young person playing on a xbox, whilst sat in front of a window, behind the window would be three toys all looking sad and glum as in they had been deserted by the young person for the video game. This is a sketch that Lydia drew to give a brief summary of what would be produced.

Codes and conventions of a newspaper advertisements.

Recording and editing radio trailer.

Scripting radio trailer.

Music bed: Toy story soundtrack

Vox pop “My favourite toy was a...”

VO: In the UK last year we spent 16.7 billion pounds on toys.

Stewart interview: “You need batteries for most toys nowadays”

VO: So how have toys changed over time and how have developments affected the ways children play today?

Irene interview: “Children don’t play anymore”

Rob interview: “Now the children just want to play on video games, and don’t want to go out and play”

VO: Could it be that toys are actually unhealthy for our children and are making then anti-social?

VO: You coming out to play?

VO: Batteries not included, Tuesday 20^th December, channel 4.

Codes and conventions of radio trailers.

Radio trailers often use a T.V advert as a radio advert.

+ Voice over - Narrator outlines the narrative.
                     - Sometimes they pose questions that will be answered in the programme.
                     - Sometimes direct address is used "you" it intrigues the audience.

+ Extracts from the documentary are used.

+ Sound effects are used where appropriate.
     - Music bed also used where appropriate.

+ Slogan always used before scheduling information.

+ We are given scheduling information used at the end of the trailer.
    - Title, date and time, channel.

+ On average around 30-40 seconds.

Voice over recording.

Scripting voice over.

Jess worked on the voiceover for our documentary and constructed a brief idea fo what she would go for, we all sat down and went over the script and made the final decisions. Jess then went back and did a complete version of the script, she showed it to myself and Lydia and we both agreed with what she had presented, after all three of us agreeing on it Jess went and recorded it with our narrator. Here is our script .........

It is estimated that in the UK last year we spent around 16.7 billion pounds on toys. Toys are a big part of our lives, we learn through them, we grow with them, we have our favourites, and those that define a generation.

In today’s society we are surrounded by gender stereotypes everywhere we go. No more so than in toy shops, where the toys our children play with reinforce what it apparently means to be male or female.
Most toys today are electronic; they either need batteries or are plugged in. While these may be more exciting for children, they have also affected the ways they play and interact
Videogames have probably had the greatest impact on the way children play. There are over 5 billion different video games in the world today...  and still counting.

Permission for use of " You've got a friend in me"

In our documentary we used the Toy story theme song, to avoid any issues with copyright I emailed Walt Disney Records to ask permission for the use of their song, they still have not got back to me.

I did not get a reply from Walt Disney Records but have proceeded to use the song in the documentary. 

Editing

After we had uploaded all our footage to Adobe premiere pro we started to cut it up and arrange it around to create a smooth flowing documentary. 

We uploaded our interviews and started adding cutaways inbetween answers so it ran smoothly.

We started getting rid of any gaps so interviews cut from one to the other.

We then started rearranging stock footage so interviews were spread out.

We started to remove and free space making sure there was no silence between all our clips.

We then edited pieces of our work by speeding things up.

We started to edit the music so it faded in and out of clips and didnt cut straight away.

We added dissolves in stock footage so things faded in and out.

We rearranged and added further stock footage and cutaways so they related to peoples answers.

We then added graphics to signify the persons relevance to the documentary.

We added the voiceover over empty spaces so the narrator could hold together disparate elements of our documentary.

This our final timeline of the 5 minute documentary with no gaps and no silent spaces to create a smooth flowing 5 piece.

Edit decision list.

Logging.

Perc library interview.

Friday 18th November. Myself and Lydia filmed an interview in Perc library in Liverpool. We had to phone up and e-mail the library to ensure that they could get an interview and once we had set a date they had to travel by train to Liverpool.

We set the camera up in the play centre and ensured the background suited the documentary. We had to make sure the interviewee was framed correctly before we could film. We then asked the interviewee several questions, once we had filmed we made sure that the sound quailty was good enough to use and went back to school to edit.

We captured their work on Adobie premiere pro and edited out the questions so that the interview ran smoother without questions interrupting.

Filming Video gamer.

Thursday 17th November.  Lydia and Jess went to film a video gamer, First they set up the camera to make sure that he was framed to the correct side, they then made sure that the background suited the documentary.

They asked him several questions about why he likes games, what his favourite are and what are the best consoles to play on.

Next they came back to school to edit out the questions so just the answers can be heard, making it run smoother. They also added in footage of games, and xboxes to put inbetween each answer which made it run better than having cuts between each answer.

Interview with second and third Grandparent.

Sunday 6th November. Jess and myself filmed Jess's two next door neighbours, we asked them the same two questions as their grandparent.


We set the cameras so that they framed the interviewees properly and ensured that we had enough light on them to be seen on the camera. Because we couldn't get toys around the interviewees we had to zoom in on their face to make it fill most of the shot but still framed them to one side to stick to the codes and conventions of recording an interview.


Once we had finished, we came into school and edited out the questions so just the answers could be heard. We also added cutaways in and over the questions to make them run smoother.

Filming our opening titles.

Friday 4th November. Lydia, Jess and myself filmed the opening title for the documentary 'Batteries not included' by using children's building blocks. The set out the blocks first to ensure that we had enough to spell out the title, we then made a background, and made sure that the lighting was right.


We then filmed it as a stop start, so moved the blocks and recorded, stopped, moved the block more and pressed record again. We did this to every block until it spelt out their title.


We then sped up the footage to make it look as if the blocks are moving by themselves into place.

Filming two children.

Friday 4th November. Lydia and myself filmed Rebecca and Ella for their children's interview. Firstly we had to create forms for their parents to sign to ensure it was fine for them to film their children.
Once we had permission we recorded the girls playing with their various toys, dolls and teddy bears they had.

Once we had stock footage we then filmed the two girls separately and asked them several questions about their toys; what they like about them, dislike, what they would like to get for Christmas and which toy was their ultimate favourite. We had to make sure that we had the background correct and that the girls stayed in the frame.

Next we came back to school to edit out the questions, cut up the stock footage into separate clips so we could then put them in between their answers and placed them all together to make two interviews.

Interview with first Grandparent.

Thursday 3rd November. Myself and Lydia went to film an interview with Lydia's Granddad. We travelled to Birkenhead and interviewed him in his living room, we set the camera up and did sound checks to ensure the microphone was working, they then sat two teddy bears on the couch with Lydia's Granddad; one old and one new.


We then ensured that he was framed to the left properly and asked him several questions about toys and games he used to play when he was younger.


When we had finished with the interview they logged the counter numbers and started to edit it. We edited out the questions we asked to make the interview run smoother, we also added cutaways and stock footage in between/over answers.

Filming Adult (Miss Stewart).

Wednesday 2nd NovemberLydia and I had to interview an adult on their view of toys these days, we asked Miss Stewart, and asked her a series of questions.

We ensured that she was framed to the left but had to use a Big close up because we couldn't find an appropriate background that could provide the correct mise en scene without relocating the interview. We made sure the camera was on a tri pod, and attached a microphone to ensure that the interviewee could be heard in the interview.


Once we had filmed we then logged and captured the interview on Adobe premiere pro, we edited the questions out from in between the answers of the interview to make it run smoother when editing. Once we had edited it all out we then added cut aways over the top of the interviewees specific questions to make sure that there was no jump cuts through out the interview.  

Filming toy shelf.

Wednesday 2nd November.Myself and Lydia constructed our own toy shelf from toys we had both collected we found a shelf in our media room which we cleared and added our own background too, the toys were a mixture of gender, age and stereotypes as we thought this would be perfect to introduce are documentary. We panned across the toys and zoomed in and out exploring a variety of different ways, we logged our footage and then captured it on premiere pro and later edited it to fit with our documentary, we will narrate over this section and have also included a music bed underneath of toy story's you've got a friend in me.

Interview with toy shop manager Neston.

 Jess interviewing the owner at Carousel.

 Jess interviewing Carousel owner this shows our set up of camera, mic and tripod.

 Long shot of our interview getting alot of the shop in.

 Lydia capturing stock footage and cutaways.

Lydia capturing stock footage, phot of the shelves we got.
We travelled to Neston to film an interview with a man who owned and managed the toyshop Carousel.
Unfortunatly there was no sound to the interview and we could not use it.

Vox pops.

Tuesday 1st November.Jess and Myself filmed a vox pop in liscard cherry tree centre outside game station. We asked 19 people the same question: 'What was your ultimate favourite toy as a child?'.

After filming everybodys answers we came back to edit them on Adobe Premiere pro, we then decided that two of the answers we filmed were not framed well enough to go into our documentary so we decided to cut them out.

We the moved on to cut out Jess asking the questions to every person and put all of the filmed answers together so they cut into each other, instead of having the constant question interrupting the flow of the answers in the vox pop.

Filming stock footage.

Me, Jess and Lydia, recorded the shelves of shops so that we could use the video for stock footage, we will use it between interviews to introduce new stories and a new interview.
After filming we logged our footage on to our sheets and captured it all on adobe premiere pro were we cut up the footage and matched it up with other footage in our documentary.

Interview questions for video gamer.

What do you like about video games?

What is your favourite video game and why?

What consoles do you play video games on?

What is the best type of console and why?

Is there a console you don't like? why?

Are there any games you want? why?

What features do you like about these games?

What kind of games do you want to make?

List some games which feature the same ideas you want to include in your games?

Interview questions for children.

Tell me what your favourite toy is, tell me about it?

Tell me about toys you don’t like? What do you dislike about them?

Tell me do you like video games? Yes/No why?

Tell me what do you prefer videogames or toys?

Are there any toys you want right now?

Interview questions for Grandparents and parents.

Tell me how play has changed since you were a child?

What types of toys did you have as a child?

Tell me about your favourite toy as a child?

Are there any toys you used to have on sale now? If so what?

Tell me how have toys changed since you were a child?

What do you like about toys that you had when you were young?

Tell me is there anything you dislike about toys these days?

Interview questions for toy shop manager.

Tell me what is your most popular selling toy?
Tell me why is it so popular?

Tell me how have toys changed over the years?

Tell me are there any toys on sale now that you used to have as a kid?

Tell me what do you enjoy about your job?

Tell me what toys are popular with girls?

Tell me what toys are popular with boys?

Tell me what toys are popular with both sexes?

Tell me what do you think the future for toys is?

Tell me what has the impact of video games had on the sales of conventional toys?

Planning.

 Childrens letter blocks, in a mess in the middle of shot.

 Stop, start recording letters start to move around.

 Letters start to arrange forming words.

Finally once sped up and played altogether the letters move to form our title, 'Batteries not included'.