Evaluation question 2

How effective is your combination of your main

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Evaluation question 3

'What have you learned from your audience feedback?'


After we finished constructing our documentary, we presented this to a number of people for audience feedback. All the people present completed a questionnaire after watching the documentary, radio trailer and print advert.

Here is a copy of a blank questionnaire we got the audience to fill out after they had finished watching our documentary and looking at our print advert and listening to our radio trailer.

Here is also some more feedback we recieved from some websites such as YouTube and Facebook.

The feedback we recieved from people on YouTube was excellent and they both said that the documentary worked in different ways and we included some good information in our documentary the only real bad criticism we got was that of the vox popps and some of our cutaways.

This peice of feedback was from the Radio trailer we did. a huge part of the feedback was about how boring/monotonous the voice over was, this could be seen as our documentary's atmosphere was a bit boring at times. One of the pieces of feedback we recieved was about the rhetorical question we used which is great because we know we grabbed their attention.

We recieved excellent feedback from people on the social networking site Facebook. All of the comments are very positive which means we have succeded in making our documentary interesting to watch. One of the most occuring peices of feedback which we got was about how proffesional our documentary was which is a big acheivment for us.

We also put up our print advert on Facebook. We again received positive feedback from different audiences saying that they liked our print advert and thought it was very effective which is good because we have succeeded in making our product appealing to our target audience.

we designed a questionnaire to also gain feedback for our product. Here are the results from our questionnaire.

results on Prezi

results on Prezi

In conclusion the feedback we received was very positive for example how it links in together well and how proffesional it looks. The only reoccuring negative feedback we recieved was about the voice over being boring and monotonous, if we were to do the radio trailer again i think it would of been better to use a different person for the voice over.

Evaluation question 4

Research and Planning on Prezi

Photographs for print advert and screen grabs of the production

Adjusting the exposure levels of the photo gave the tanned look.

Using photoshop we were able to copy the channel 4 logo and position it in its conventional way to a print advert.

Print advert draft

Instead of drawing out a print draft, we decided to go on photoshop and just roughly try out what our print advert would look like.

We liked the idea of having an image with part of her tanned and part of her not tanned which raises the question in our documentary "what is to tanned?". After playing about with the image for a bit we decided it would be too difficult to produce a print advert which was aesthetically pleasing for an audience so we gathered up more ideas.

We liked this idea best because we thought the changing sections of tanned and not tanned worked well and our final print draft became similair to this idea we had. We decided to produce the print advert in landscape because it is conventional but when we had finished our advert it still had a blank background which we thought was boring, which was were the sunbed tubes idea came in. Our idea ended up being 4 sections and each section got more tanned as you looked around going clockwise which we found would be most effective.

Codes and Conventions of a print advert

After looking at a few print adverts in class our group came up with a list of codes and conventions used to make a print advert.

• 1 Main image which is strong and eye catching
• Image anchors text and creates a narrative
• Channel 4 logo is always on the right hand side, 3D and not too strong
• Central image sums up program
• Colours match the image or mood of the documentary
• Sponsorship is sometimes present
• Red, white and black are predominant colours
• Black behind the text, and no more than half way across the image
• Scheduling appears, including date and time
• Aimed to be published in lower, working class newspapers
• Could be portrait or landscape
• Minimum about of words
• Positioning statement is catchy and short and links into the documentary

Radio Trailer Script

Our group came up with a script for the radio trailer which uses the codes and conventions. This also helps the person who is doing our voice over and indication of the pauses and what is going into the script.

 

 

 

 

Music Bed: What Makes You Beautiful (instrumental)

Voiceover: Mr Bottom

(.) – Short pause

(1.0) – Longer Pause

_____ - Emphasis

“How far would you go for that bronzed body?

Mrs Battle: Your value is in your looks, and celebrities look good

“An average of 35 Million foreign holidays a year means people are browner for longer”

Vicki: Famous people have all got brown golden skin

“Between salons and self tan (.) even your average person can glow like a celeb”

Nicky: But there was no kind of health warnings, and the UVA rays give out radiation and this can cause different kinds of cancer

“A journey into the world of tanning (1.0) and how important it’s become (.)”

“How far would you glow?”

“Tantalising (1.0) Monday 5^th December (.) 8:30 (.) Channel 4”

Editing- Radio trailer

During the editing of our radio trailer we made sure our sound levels were all okay and the level of the music bed did not over shadow the voice over. We also took out extracts of our documentary to put in the trailer to make it conventional.

Codes and Conventions of a Radio trailer

• Music bed - no lyrics/instrumental versions, cannot overshadow v/o
• Sound effects anchor theme of doc
• Sound bites and/or extracts from documentary
• Intonation changes, i.e pitch and tone
• 30-40 seconds long
• Beginning must be clear as to grab audience
• Should intrigue audience
• V/O same person as documentary and is intercut throughout trailer
• Hint at what's going to be on the documentary
• Schedule at the end, usually with a different voice
• Pose questions
• Same theme and slogan as print and from the same campaign

After listening to many radio trailers in class we came up with a list of codes and conventions we saw in all of them. We will make our radio trailer to fit these codes and conventions

Voice over script

This is the voiceover script from our documentary:

In recent difficult financial times, 63% of people have had to give up their holiday abroad and seek other means, such as fake tanning and sun beds, to get that summer glow.

From sun beds to spray on, people have started to tan at work, home, and now even in the gym. So, why is this the case?

With a public split of what looks good, the debate between perfectly pale or brown and bronzed still stands.

But what is the influence tanned celebrities have on the public, and why do people need to look like their idols?

 

This might also change after our feedback so we can make it better.

Editing

We used the software Adobe Premier Pro to edit our documentary- at first i found this quite difficult but as we progressed my skills increased. We used this software to make our final product look as proffesional as possible. Here are some screen shots.

Edit decision list

This is our groups edit decision list and this enables people to identify what order we have edited our documentary in.

tape log sheet

This is our groups tape log sheet and this indicates what footage is used to be in our final documentary.

filming- Vox pops

In our documentary there are 2 different vox pops:
1) Do you tan and if so why?
2) (shows a tanned photo of Nicola Roberts and a pale photograph of her) Which do you prefer?
These are the questions we asked during our Vox Pops. These were definatly the hardest to film: the first time we did this it started to rain so people were less willing to answer questions, the second time we were filming we asked the manager of the place to use his shop but he refused. Eventually the third time filming this was succussful and we were able to get our answers.

filming- sarah fenlon

1. Do you tan yourself? If, so how?
2. Would you ever use sun beds? Why/Why not?
3. Do you know the risks of UV tanning?
4. Has your awareness and opinions of sun beds changed since your dad’s illness was diagnosed?
5. What advice would you give to sun bed users?
These are the questions we used for Sarah Fenlon. We had to also re film this interview because the first time her answeres were too short and the positioning was bad. The second time we filmed this she gave more informative answers and the framing was good. The mise en scene didnt really matter as much for this interview as it is only a short one and is more about her personal experience.

filming- Joe Deer

1. Why do you tan?
2. How often do you use fake tan or sun beds?
3. How often do you see clients in your workplace tanning?
4. Do you think that it make you feel more confident?
5. Does your work have any regulations considering the use of the sun beds?
These are the questions we used for Joe Deer's interview.We had to re film this interview because the first time the lighting was too bright and washed out his face and also he was sitting on a sun bed which made him have to lean forward. The second time we filmed this we did it in his office and for the mise en scene we used a poster from the tanning rooms inside his gym.

Filming- Bad weather cutaways

We decided to film on a cloudy rainy and windy day to illustrate to the audience in our documentary how poor the british weather was.

filming- Mrs Battle

1. What do you believe are the social reasons for tanning?
2. Do you feel celebrities influenced people’s lives and their feelings towards their own appearance?
3. Why do you think people feel the need to look like celebrities?
4. In your opinion how important are people’s perceptions of themselves?
5. Why do you think tanning has become such a key part of stereotypes and cultures?

These are the questions we used for the interview with a sociology teacher Mrs Battle. We believe this interview went really well and that there is no need to re film it. The mise en scne was excellent as it was set in her office in the school and the lighting was good. After the first question we Re filmed to get the framing right.

filming- Nicky

1. What are the risks of UV tanning?
2. Are these risks worse on sun beds than they are in comparison to natural tanning?
3. Have you ever come across anybody with burns from using sun beds whilst you have been working?
4. What advice would you give to those who use sun beds?
5. What are your views on what Nicola Roberts has done concerning the legal age of using sun beds?

These are the questions we asked Nicky who is a nurse.This was filmed in a consultants room in a surgery. We believe that the interview went really well. We used Nicky because she provides us with the more serious side of the topic.

filming- Vicky 1

1. Why did you set up a tanning salon?
2. Why do you think your customers tan?
3. Do you tan personally?
4. What advice do you offer your customers?
5. What restrictions do you have in place?
6. What are your views on the effect Nicola Roberts has had on the tanning industry?
7. Has this affected your business in any way?

This was the interview for Vicky the tanning salon owner of "Glow Sun Rooms"
Although the mise en scene was good and the framing was perfect, we had to re film this as the lighting was poor. We also filmed various cutaways and a working sun bed.

Preliminary Task

Title: It's better connected
Opening sequence + interview

Running order

This is the running order for our documentary. However it may change due to the content.

Research

This is all the research that we have conducted in search for interviews and secondary research etc.

Email Print Screens:

Tweets:

Brain Storm of Ideas:

Formal Proposal

Topic: Tanning

Title: Tan-talising

Type of Documentary: Mixed

Style of Documentary: Informal

Channel & Scheduling: Channel 4, Mondays at 8:30. This will pre-echo audience for Embarrassing Bodies.

Target Audience: Males and females, around the ages of 16 to 25.

Primary Research Needed:
1. Interview with psychology teacher, tanning salon owner, doctor, parent.
2. Interview with Nicola Roberts, Katie Price, Louie Spence, Peter Andre, members of the Geordie Shore and The Only Way is Essex.
3. Voxpops.
4. Voice over with Mr Bottom

Secondary Research Needed:
1. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful.
2. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
3. Foo Fighters - Cold Day In The Sun
4. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
4. Location i.e Liverpool

Narrative Structure: Non Linear

Outline of Content:1.
1. Opening Sequence.
2. Voxpops in Liverpool - do you tan, if so how?
3. Interviews with anyone suggested in primary research.
4. Cutaways - tanning salon

Resource Requirement:
- Camera, Tripod, Video Camera, Voice Recorder

brainstorm for the content of the documentary

Questionnaire results

Questionnaire results

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Video of Questionnaire results

Questionnaire