Final Version of Magazine article

After much deliberation the final edition of the magazine article has been finished, the basis of the interview has remained the same informing the audience of our opinions and the process of filming and editing, however we decided to change the background giving it a look that would better suit a magazine also making it more attractive to the audiences eye.

Prezi Presentation

These print screen images show my Prezi Presentation. Prezi is a innovative website that allows you to create a presentation with a difference.

The website allows you to flow from one piece of information to another, looking through each image.

I found this website and type of presentation really useful, it was interesting for the audience and fun to make. It also allowed me to use a creative way to display my information.

http://prezi.com/ifzsv5si-v1i/edit/#1

Audience feedback

Evaluation

Continuing on from a previous blog on my evaluation for my advanced portfolio, i have now completed the evaluation including slides on influences from other documentaries, the filming process and my ancillary pieces.

Audience Feedback

To gain the knowledge of constructive criticism we conducted a screening of our final version of the documentary to three students, all three were media students and this became apparent in their knowledge of the editing processes and the technical terms that are said. Overall they were all impressed with the fluidity of the piece and variety of people in the documentary, taking into account the positive and negative opinions of the students we will now go back to the documentary, editing it until we feel we have produced to the best of our ability.

Final edition of voiceover

After finishing the filming and editing process, we have now been able to post the final edition of our voice over. This narrates the documentary providing the audience with factual information and helps to connect parts of the documentary together,this took quite a long period of time as we had trouble choosing the right facts the were most relevant from the extensive research we had performed we also had to edit snippets that would fit in the restricted time period. In the end we decided that we would both narrate the documentary as the final workpiece was joint contribution:

Voice over final edition

Charlie: In today's society, television is seen as the gateway to learning, with such shows as family guy do we really know the real effects TV has on children? What do they see? And what do they learn? What's really going on behind the screen?
In this documentary we will be investigating the causes and effects these shows have on children.

Kate: From watching TV with friends to family, do we really know if its really acceptable in modern day and if children should actually be watching it?

Charlie: So does TV influence children's behaviour in the classroom?

Kate: But what happened when TV first emerged?

Charlie: With children watching an average of 19 hours and 40 minutes of television per week could it really damage their future lives? Or are programmes educating our children? If so, what shows do children watch?

Kate: In Australia a child spends an average of 18,000 hours watching cartoon. this is the same amount of time spent behind a school desk up to the age of 18. Is this good for education?

Charlie: With exams and tests at school , is TV a bad distraction during revision or does it help to teach important skills?

Kate: There are many shows such as The Simpson's that teach real ,orals. but what do the children really think of the cartoons?

Evaluation Powerpoint

With filming finished, my evaluation process now begins, during the Easter holidays I started to construct my evaluation PowerPoint which helps to show the links, videos and factual information in a clear and simple format easy for the audience to read and understand.

After experimenting on PowerPoint I decided that the colour schemes weren't right so I started to research backgrounds on Google, I was looking for a background that was simple yet colourful that wouldn't distract the audience from the information being displayed on the page. After exploring a few websites provided by Google I discovered these two images...

Both these images were very professional looking, they were both engaging enough but not distracting from the information. However when using the first image as a background it was pixelated and out of proportion, whereas the second image on the right worked really efficiently.

To provide sufficient information for the receiving audience, I used various techniques in conjunction to questions given by the exam board, one of these techniques used was word cloud from the website http://www.worditout.com/, a technique which artfully designs words relevant to your topic that will visually engage the audience.