4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

What new media technologies did you use?

3. What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

I felt it was important to gather audience feedback throughout the production of my three media products, as it allowed me to see how my target audience reacted to the different products and to find out what they thought about them. This enabled me to improve my product and create a final version which they liked and would consume. These are the different bits of audience feedback I gathered from my target audience for the different media products I created:

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

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? on Prezi

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

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

Final Product: Documentary V4

This is the fourth and final version of our documentary.


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Location Recce & Risk Assessment: Locations 4 & 5

Upon deciding to go back and film an interview with a victim of cyber bullying on 23/3/12, we carried out two location recces and risk assessments of the locations we were going to use.

Teacher Consultation

After a short consultation with our teacher, we have decided to do the following to our documentary to improve it:

Documentary Version 3

This is the third version of our documentary.


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Documentary Version 2

This is the second draft of our documentary.

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Ancillary Task 2: Results

My second ancillary task received a lot of positive feedback. My target audience liked these aspects of my double page spread:

• Main image. My main image is the most controversial part of my newspaper advert. However, my target audience liked how dark, weird and freaky the picture is and felt these things helped grab their attention. One audience member thought it was a clever visual metaphor representing the anonymity given to social network users. Below is a thought shower of the different words my target audience called the main image. I created this on Wordle.

Ancillary Task 1: Results

I received a lot of positive feedback from the questionnaires I handed out about my double page spread. My target audience liked these aspects of my double page spread:

• Fonts. They found the fonts easy to read and relatable to the theme of social networking. 
• Layout. They thought the layout was a bit simple but they found that it worked well. 

Final Product: Double Page Spread

This is the final version of my double page spread which will feature in the TV listings magazine, TV Choice.

Ancilllary Task 2: Audience Feedback Plan

I will show my newspaper advert to 10 people from my target audience and asked them to answer the following questions in a questionnaire:

1. What do you of the main image of the advert? Do you like it? If not, why?
2. Do you like the design of the advert? What do you like about it? If not, why?
3. Would you be interested in watching the documentary after seeing this advert? If not, why?
4. Do you think the advert contains all the information you need? If not, why?
5. Any other comments?

Ancillary Task 1: Audience Feedback Plan

 I will show my double page spread to 10 people from my target audience and asked them to answer the following questions in a questionnaire:

1. Do you find the article interesting? If not, why?
2. Do you like the design of the double page spread? What do you like about it? If not, why?
3. Do you like the typography (text font and size) used throughout the article? If not why?
4. Can you tell the article is about social networking? If not, why?
5. Would you be interested in watching the documentary after seeing this double page spread? If not, why?
6. Any other comments?

Final Product: Newspaper Advert

This is the final version of my newspaper advert which will be feature in The Sun.

First Draft

This is the first draft of my newspaper advert.

After reviewing it myself, and asking members of my target audience what they thought of it, I have decided to do the following to my first draft:

Production

I used Adobe Photoshop when creating my newspaper advert. I used several different formatting tools and options from this software to create my newspaper advert.

Layers
I used several different layers in the production of my advert. This allowed me to place the white text against the blue background. I labelled each layer so I'd know what each one contained. Using layers also let me lock layers that I was happy with. This helped me make sure that I didn't ruin my work whilst experimenting with other elements of it.

First Draft

This is the first draft of my double page spread.

After reviewing it myself, and asking members of my target audience what they thought of it, I have decided to do the following to my first draft:

Production

I created my newspaper advert on Adobe Indesign. I used several tools from this program when making my double page spread.

Gradient
I used the gradient tool to create a colour swatch that went from blue to white. I was then able to edit where the colours would start to fade into each other.

Day 2

Today I implemented the changes I planned to make yesterday. The article now looks better as the layout isn't as busy and the Twitter birds have made the article look more professional. The text size and font change has also made the article look more professional. However, the change in background colour has had the most impact on my article. The article now looks more modern and eye catching.

Day 1

Today I created my newspaper advert. I didn't take me that long to make as I was already familiar with the software and my thorough planning had given me a clear idea what I wanted make and how I should go about doing it.

Day 1

Today I inserted all of the text and images into my double page spread. I have also made some changes. These are as follows:

• I have decided to change some of the fonts around. The heading and main body of text shall now be Arial as I felt OCR A Std made the article look messy and unprofessional.
• I have also decided to change the font size of the lead paragraph to 15pt.
• I now intend to use two extra images of Twitter birds in my double page spread. These will be placed in the bottom right hand corner of the article. I will apply a transparency effect on them so I can place them behind the text.
• After looking at the background of my article, I have decided that just having the blue background is a bit boring. I have therefore decided that I will make the background a blue and white gradient. This will make the spread look more modern and suitable for my target audience.

Documentary: Feedback Action Plan

After reviewing the feedback left by our target audience and expert panel we have decided to do the following to improve our documentary:

Documentary: Rough Edit Expert Panel Feedback Results

Today we received feedback from our expert panel. This is the questionnaire they filled out.

Documentary: Rough Edit Expert Panel Feedback

We have sent our documentary to two experts in documentary production to see what they think of our product. We sent a general questionnaire for them to answer in relation to our documentary. However we have also asked them the following questions to allow use to get there expert opinion on our documentary.

1. Do you think this media product uses the codes and conventions of current affairs documentaries?
2. What channel do you think would be interested in airing this documentary?

Documentary: Rough Edit Screening Feedback Results

Today we carried out several screenings of our documentary to our target audience of 16-19 year olds. We then asked the 15 viewers to fill out questionnaires.

From the feedback we have found out the following things:

Documentary: Rough Edit Online Feedback Results

A few people provided us with feedback from the questionnaire we put on FaceBook. These are the questions they responded to: