Group 4 Evaluation Q1 Ahmad Wahab
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Evaluation Q1
How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and
conventions of real media products? The topic for our documentary is the technology in sports, and focuses on its advantages and
disadvantages. Our final product used and developed the forms and conventions of real media
products as well as challenging them.
Documentary
A convention we used that was also in this real media product was VoxPops. Voxpops are used to
show the public’s opinion on your topic in a way that isn’t formal, giving the audience the sense that
the information isn’t biased since it comes from random people. We asked the students at the sixth
form college for our VoxPop.
Another convention that is used in real media products is Archival/stock footage. This is material
that is found from a film library or archive. This kind of footage isn’t taken by the crew and is
generally past footages. These are used to show a
historical event based on the topic or to fill the
documentary in empty places to keep it flowing. One of
our main archival footage was the referee this was
effective
since the
point we
made
before the footage talked about how the audience can
now here the referee’s decisions and why he made
them. Archival footage was used in ‘Supersize Me’
Lots of our camera shots/angles in our documentary
were inspired by other documentaries. Panning,
establishing shots and over- the- shoulder shots were used in our documentaries as well as other
real media products.
VoxPop used in ‘Supersize Me’ Our VoxPop
Our Archival Footage
Archival Footage from ‘Supersize Me’
Establishing shots are used to show the location in which the documentary is set at as well as where
the research was done.
Over-the-shoulder was used in our documentary for one of the interviews; we did this to keep our
documentary
interesting by
making the
audience feel
involved with the
documentary.
Captions are used
in multiple real
media products to
give information
on the interviewee
and their
relevance to the
topic
An expert
interview is
footage of a
person who has a high degree of knowledge on the topic. For our documentary we asked three
experts, who have knowledge on sport or/and
technology. We talked to a PE teacher and a Media
teacher about the pros and cons of technology in sport as
well as a PE student from the college who has seen the
use of technology in sport. This follows the forms and
conventions of real media products since a lot of them
use expert interviews. I.e. Supersize Me
Establishing shot from our
documentary
Expert interview showing captions using an over-
the shoulder shot
Expert interview from ‘Supersize
Me’
Establishing shot from ‘Supersize Me’
We challenged some conventions, for example a common
example used in documentaries is the use of on-screen
statistics. We did this since we already mentioned some
statistics in the voice over, and thought that we didn’t have a
suitable place to place the stats on-screen.
Radio Trailer
From our research for radio trailers we found conventions and forms from real media products,
some of the conventions we used were;
Voiceover- Help persuade the reader to try the product and give information on the product
Music- Music would be used in radio trailers to keep the listeners interested
Advertisement – We included in our trailer information on when and where our
documentary was going to be aired
Several Speakers – Several speakers would be used so that the audience won’t get tired of
the same voice
Snippets from documentary – This was used to give the listeners a ‘taste’ of what to expect
in from the main product. For this we used our expert interviews and our VoxPops
A convention that we didn’t follow is the general time limit, which was commonly 30 to 40 seconds
in real media products. We used the extra time to place more varied content to help us keep the
listeners attention. We also decided not to included statistics or stats since this would overload the
listeners with information that could potentially bore them.
Magazine Double Page Spread
Our Double Page Spread
On-screen Stats from
‘Supersize Me’
We researched into multiple forms and conventions
that are used in double page spreads especially those
found on the RadioTimes. Drop cap is a common
convention used in real media products; this is when
the first letter of the article larger than the rest. We
also used this convention since it created a more realistic
look.
Columns are also another convention that is
used in multiple magazine articles as well
as the page numbers. These are
conventions that we used in our
magazine double page spread.
We also developed some conventions and forms in
our magazine article. We developed the use of
quotes; normally a quote is placed in other places of
the article and wouldn’t expand beyond the columns.
Our quote on the other hand goes across all three
columns.
Real media products would mainly use one image to fill
a space and although we had a main
image we also used lots of other
images to fill the page.
Our article and the ‘New Who’
Doctor Who article from the
RadioTimes.
Our article and the ‘Headlong’
article from the RadioTimes.
Our article and the ‘You’re the
boss’ article from the
RadioTimes.
Our article and the ‘Route to
Glory’ article from the
RadioTimes.