Completed Documentary

Above is the our completed documentary, something that was important to include within the completion of blogging. From the documentary shown, it is clear that the extensive use of planning and preparation has resulted in an overall successful documentary.

Evaluation Questions Presentation

Now that I have completed the remaining slides to my evaluation, I have decided to show the finished PowerPoint to the other members of my group. I was able to show this on PowerPoint's slide show, reading out each slide as my other group members watched. From presenting the PowerPoint, I was able to recieve some feedback and suggestive areas that could be improved. For example, one member of the group, Hester, said that the overall presentation was effective and the conclusion stood out, however, one of the slides potentially contained too much text and could be split in to two slides to make it more visual. This is something that I will take into consideration and contemplate changing. Overall, the evaluation questions appeared to be relevant to the specification and I was able to get sustained feedback from the group.

Completion of Supporting Pieces

Now that I have a firm understanding of what an interview layout requires, I've been able to produce my own interview, conforming to the expectations of magazine layouts. I have chosen to use a block colour for the background, therefore audience attention can be focused on the information instead of a complicated background. This also helps to reflect the genre of the article, keepin the colour scheme soft and easy on the eye. I chose to use white 'Baskerville Old Face' font, in order to create variation and so the text stands out against the contrasting background. I found the interview simplistic and straightforward to write, as I was able to incorporate information that I had learned throughout the course, for example, just how dangerous driving can be. The picture used within the interview I felt created impact, being easy on the eye but also creating effect, something that I wanted to create throughout the article. The title, as mentioned previously was designed on dafont.com, again keeping in with the simplistic tone of the article, something that I felt was pivotal to show throughout due to the sensitive and personal subject of teenage driving.

Group Supporting Piece

We have decided as our second supporting piece to create a radio advert, in order to relate closely to our documentary. Whilst I created the narrative, we decied that Leanne would do the voice overs, in order to create different roles within the group. This is something we found fairly simple to complete, only needing a couple of run-throughs before we were able to complete our final advert. We experimented with different sounds that we could potentially incorporate into the advert, however, finally decided on finishing the advert with a 'police siren' sound, relating closely to the advert. In order to create the advert, we used a software called 'GarageBand' on the Mac computers, something that we haven't used before, however, found simple and relatively easy to use. This was a successful yet different group task, something that we were able to complete with structured research.

Continuing Supporting Piece 1

I have created one page of my double-paged spread for a magazine so far and am currently completing the other side, which is where the interview will be placed. I have chosen to create an interview who lost a friend in a car accident, similar to the one shown within our documentary, as well as incorporating the idea that the person being interviewed had watched our documentary. I have created, as part of one of the questions, her reaction to this and made it relevant to the documentary as well as the topic being discussed, linking into elements of the documentary. In order to create an effective looking and detailed interview, I will need to continue to condense the information created so far and include visual effects, such as images and potentially a relevant background in order to relate closely to my target audience. This is something I will aim to do once I have finished coming up with appropriate context.

Evaluation Questions

Now that the filming process has been completed, during the Easter break, I have begun creating my PowerPoint Presentation, displaying the evaluation questions and showing some of the work we produced as a group through the use of screenshots and images. I researched different wallpapers at google.co.uk in order to create an orginial PowerPoint, as well as experimenting with colours and fonts. I decided to keep the PowerPoint fairly simple in order not to attract attention away from the information. I have used the questions given by the exam board as a guideline in order to help explain such features as how our documentary appears to be conventional and the results from audience feedback. This is something I have been working on over Easter, however, will need to include further visual effects and images used within our documentary on the Mac computers, something that I will complete when we return. This screenshot is shows the development stages towards completing the evaluation process.