Sunday, 29 April 2012

Ancillary task: Double page spread


Here is the final print of my double page spread.


After looking at many double and single page spreads to give me ideas, I decided to begin mine. I got the background image of pencils of google because i thought it would be slightly different to many, seeing as most double page spreads contain a plain background. Using snapshots from our documentary, i added in the ones which were relevent to my article. Here are the snapshots:







I noticed many articles in TV magazine contain snapshots from the relevant scene, such as if there were a fight scene in a soap drama, there would be a snapshot of the fight, or if something tragic were to happen, there would be a snapshot of it to lure the viewers into watching it. For example,


 I also noticed much articles about individual celebrities such as singers or actors contain a more posed/staged photo which is why i opted for just the snapshots. Here is an example of this:


Left page                                                                                          Right page

I emphasised particular quotes from characters, for a better chance of attracting viewers. For example, emphasising the quote "Im just fed up really - all the teachers picking on me" in a different color font, bigger and bolder may help to attract viewers by making them ask the questions 'what happened? 'are the teachers actually picking on him?'. The contrasting quote of Mr Kernan "Hes one of the small group of students were going to have to clamp down it" also makes the viewer want to watch the documentary and find out if he is as misbehaved as Mr Kernan says.

Ancillary Task: Poster

Here is a final print of my documentary poster.


The thing i found most difficult about creating my poster was matching the font as close as possible to Channel 4's. Although this one is not very similar, it is the closest i think i can get. 

Planning: TV listings double page spread



Here is a plan for my double page spread. I will probably change a few things when i actually create it however it will not be far off this.

Ancillary Task - Documentary Poster

Here is my draft of what i am aiming for my documentary poster to look like.



I have taken note of previous documentary posters that i have looked at and used very similar conventions in order to make my own look realistic. I have positioned my 4 logo on the right hand side, with the title and breif information on block colour on the right hand side. My image is central, focusing around the main character of our documentary (Brad). Although the lighting is quite bright or natural on my draft, on the real photo i am planning to take it into photoshop and edit it in order to have more of a lighting focus around brad and the centre of the photo, hopefully this will draw attention and inform the audience Brad will be the main character or one of the main characters featuring in the documentary. The date will be changed on my final poster to Wednesday the 5th September.

Questionnaire Evaluation

In total we handed out 20 questionnaires, 10 to females and 10 to males. From the questionnaire, we concluded that our target audience are most interested in Fly on the wall and Reality type documentaries, usually shown on Channel 4. We used this information and decided that it would be appropriate to show the documentary we have produced on Channel 4. The type of documentary we decided to produce is fly on the wall but because we found our target audience also like reality documentaries we also tried to incorporate this into what we produced. Many participants said they enjoyed watching 'Educating Essex' so we thought it would be a good idea to produce a similar documentary to this because it seems that it is something that interests our target audience. We got a mixed response from an equal group of females and males, from all differant age ranges. We discovered that people of all ages and genders would be interested in a School based documentary, however more so females then males. We found this discovery very useful because we thought Teaching Teens would therefor satisfy everyone. 

Planning: Questionnaire

Me and my group constructed a questionnaire in order to discover what kinds of documentaries most people are interested in watching, and what their favorite elements of a documentary are in order to ensure our own documentary contains these things. 



1. Gender
Male
Female


2. How old are you?
younger than 10
10-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
50+
3. What is your favorite type of documentary?
Mockumentary
Observational
Reality
Educational 
Fly on the wall
Other

4. Do you watch documentaries often?
Yes- Lots
Yes- Sometimes
Yes- Rarely
No- Never

5.What channel would you normally associate with documentaries that you like?
BBC
ITV
Channel 4
Sky
Other

6.What is you favorite ever TV documentary?
.........................

7. What is your favorite TV documentary currently being shown? (N/A if none)
........................

8. What do you look for in a documentary that you would watch?
.........................

9. Would you be interested in a fly on the wall documentary based in a secondary school?
Yes
No

10. What channel would you expect to see this documentary on?
BBC
ITV
Channel 4
Sky
Other

Planning: Voiceover