In what way does your media product use[1]

In what way does your media product use[1]

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  A2 Media Studies:Coursework Evaluation Irving Sewell
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  In what waydoes your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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  Documentary The documentary wasthe opening five minutes of a TV documentary it was called ‘ Cyber Bullying, The Dark Truth’ it was about cyber bullying amongst teenagers. It was filmed in the The sixth form College, Solihull. We also had to make a double page spread for a TV listings magazine and a Radio trailer for the documentary. This was a factual documentary that was addressing a real issue for many teenagers of today. The documentary was about the growing problem of cyber bullying (mainly through the growing use of social networking.)
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  Bill Nicholas documentarytypes This type of documentary is This type of documentary This type of documentary has fragmentary , they tend to use speaks directly to the viewer no narrative and has minimal symbols. Continuity editing is and they usually propose a intervention. It can be referred not important and they are strong argument. to as ‘observed lived life’ usually impressionistic This type of documentary is This type of documentary This type of documentary is a more personal approach. draws attention to the nature of fragmentary , they tend to use The film maker gives a view documentaries and more likely symbols. Continuity editing is and tells a story to deal with ‘realism’ not important and they are usually impressionistic
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  Interviews The majority ofour interviews were vox pop interviews which are used a lot in documentaries especially ones that are on a serious topic. This allows the view to see how different people feel about the issue and see their views. We also had expert interviews that were used to give the viewer more factual information about the issue
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  Different types ofcamera shots
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  Use of facts Thisgive important facts to the viewer
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  Super Size Me Super Size me is an American documentary we looked at. It was too do with the issue of eating fast food and the affects it has. It was a documentary that followed the film maker round 24/7and showed his journey throughout. Like our documentary it was addressing a serious issue and displayed facts of the topic such as obesity rates like our documentary This is an example of something similar in showing the bullying facts. the two documentaries. When watching There was a number of things in Super Size Me, our group thought the way Supersize Me used that influenced the expert interviews were positioned and choices on how we wanted our the names on the bottom left hand side documentary to look. was a good way to position our own expert interviews.
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  Comparison to realdocumentary (Supersize Me)
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  TV Listings article Incomparison to a real TV listings double page spread (picture on the right). Our double page spread seems to have many codes and conventions of real media products such as the images used that are actually from the program, bright colours to attract readers, bold text that stands out, the name of the programme and the colour seems to fit the topic. However when looking at a real media product on the market our double page spread looks basic and there is a lot of unused space on the two pages where as on a real media product both pages space are fully used. You could say that our magazine challenges codes and conventions by having one page that it just images what is not really common amongst many TV listing articles.
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  Radio trailer • Wemade a 30 second radio trailer on BBC Radio 1. It included voices from the documentary , the time, date and what channel it would be broadcasted on (BBC Three). The Radio trailer was made on Garage Band. Using the same program we created a background instrumental for the trailer. • We thought BBC Three would be the ideal channel to broadcast the documentary on because BBC is a very popular TV channel amongst teenagers. • The radio trailer did not really challenge any conventions of a real media product as it was more a traditional radio trailer with previews of the documentary and information on when to watch it
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  Conclusion As a conclusionI think the media products our group created was very similar to real media products on the market. I think they developed and challenged forms of real media products because they were alike but they also had their own individual elements to them which made them better