Audience Feedback

To gain some audience feedback I created this questionnaire on Google Docs and shared it via my blog, Twitter and Facebook.

Construction: Ancillary Product - TV Listings

Now I have completed my documentary, I have begun creating my ancillary products. After carrying out research on TV Listings and Newspaper Advertisements for documentaries I have begun creating my ancillary products using Photoshop.

Firstly I have used the rectangle tool to create the basic layout of the TV listings page. Following my research I decided that the featured documentary should stand out from the other listings therefore I have created a 'Pick of the Day' style 'Must Watch' section on the right page of the TV Listings.

I then created four boxes and titled them accordingly

In the image below you can see how I have added the date onto the page and continued to use a blue colour scheme.

Construction: Editing - December 10th

I have now nearly completed editing my documentary

During the editing process I have added clips which I wish to use as cutaway shots furthermore I needed to reduce the audio of these cutaways. To achieve this using iMovie, I selected 'Audio Adjustments' and this allowed me to reduce or increase the volume of my selected footage accordingly. The image below is a screenshot of the Audio Adjustments menu on iMovie. (Click to enlarge)

Below are two screen shots showing my editing process; you can see where I have inserted a song which I have edited using Garageband. You can also see where I have inserted titles and text narration:

Construction: Additional filming

During editing I had noticed where different shots could be useful and improve my documentary excerpt. So this week I have completed filming all of my footage, by carrying out another interview, filming a 'presenter' to introduce and narrate the programme, and filming a variety of footage which I will use as cutaways.

Construction: Choosing and Editing Footage - November 4th

In todays lesson I have continued with the editing of my existing footage and I am in the process of planning which footage I wish to add to my documentary. To do this I am viewing my footage and pinpointing which parts of my interview would be made more interesting with a relevant visual and listing these parts in a Microsoft Word document, which is shown in my screen shot. 

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Whilst editing my footage I have found a clip which I wish to re-film but only as a voice recording. I feel that what my interviewee has said would compliment a particular cutaway shot and so I will record her speech again, but using a dictaphone for clearer sound. A still image of the cutaway shot can be viewed above, click to enlarge.

This is the chosen speech I wish to record: 'Like most other jobs here at Havens Hospices my job isn't a nine to five role. I don't come in, do it and go out again, it's with us all the time.'

Construction: Editing - November 1st

I have now filmed my footage, however I do intend to film more next week. I am currently editing the footage I do have using iMovie, I have changed the brightness of this footage and inserted a cutaway shot. Here is a screen shot of the beginning of my editing process:

On iMovie I am currently trying out and using different tools to edit my footage. For example, to brighten my footage I have used clicked 'Video Adjustments', which then enables me to adjust the; exposure, contrast, saturation and brightness of my footage. The image below shows the 'Video Adjustments' toolbox.

Construction: Photographs

I visited the local 'Big Society' store to photograph some various images which I wish to use for my ancillary products. I edited these photos using an Apple iPhone application called 'Instagram'. I adjusted the aesthetic appearance, e.g. to highlight the sign. Click to enlarge the images.