Evaluation

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






Use Of Mise En Scene

Use of Voiceovers

After carefully listening, watching and making appropriate notes on real media products (radio advertisements and documentaries), we produced a script for both our documentary and our radio advert. Our voiceover opened our radio advert by asking a rhetorical question to attract the target audience, this question is then answered and followed by a clip taken from our documentary. A “voice of god” style voiceover is used in our documentary to address the viewer. No codes and conventions are challenged or developed in any way.


Use of Archive Material




Our Archive Material is taken from the extremely popular film Sex and The City as the main characters in the film are constantly pictured wearing high heeled shoes, and also because within the film there are various clips of models walking in heels on runways. Archive material is important as it is normally used as a cutaway. Using achieve material allows the documentary to appear more valid and reliable as it uses pre-existing material. We got our Archive Material from the DVD Sex and The City and converted it in school with the help of a Media Technician.



The Use of Music




A code and convention of documentaries and radio ads if the use of a music bed. Using a catchy music bed in relevant places is vital when trying to attract your target audience. We cut down parts of songs that fit in well with our documentary and radio advert. This is typical of a real media product as relevant music is always used.


The Use of Graphics

Here is an example of the graphic we used throughout our documentary. We chose pink because it's a girly colour and communicates well with our target audience.

This graphic is taken from a real channel 4 documentary.


The Use of Cutaways

Our Annotated Print Advert

However, we then decided to change the background of our print advert and have a grain overlay to emphasise the heels, signifying what the documentary is about. Our finished and final print advert is pictured below.