Added Interviews

Over Christmas holidays we conducted two more interviews that will be included onto to our documentary.
The first interview is with a children's TV director Ken Grumbaum who gives his views on modern day children programmes and how he feels these programmes affect young children. having 6 children himself he shared with us his thoughts of the shows and whether they are seen as good or bad TV for children.
The second interview is with a local parent who describes their thoughts and concerns to their own children's reactions as they watched violent shows. Some of the shows they mentioned depicted violence and some inappropriate language. However not all the shows were of a negative view and some resembled a learning and resourceful nature. Once again proving the balance in our argument of TV because of the pros and cons in the viewing material.
By adding these interviews to our documentary we will have the full perspectives from parents, teachers to industry experts, this will give our audience a more balanced argument allowing them to become more educated on the subject.

Developing the Magazine Article- Supporting Piece

This is a developed version of the magazine article, after creating the first draft we decided that the article layout wasn't effective as we thought it would be, so after changing the layout to a satisfactory place we then started to review the actual interview itself.

When we reviewd the wording of the article we both agreed that it was missing more information on the creative process so we decided together that we would talk more about our views of the documentary, the making of and the technical side of the production. After re-reading the edited interview we found that the artcile had become more effective in promotion terms and looked more professional.

Media on supporting documents

To help give our supporting pieces a more polished and overall professional look, we decided that we would look on the Internet to find fonts for the documents that were different from the typical word fonts that you can find on Microsoft word, the resulting website was http://www.dafont.com/
On this website you can scroll through hundreds of different fonts from stencils to calligraphy.

On the Posters I created I decided to use stencil because my aim with the posters was to catch attention and to invite the audience in. These fonts below are just some that I considered and used...

Preliminary Interview Article

These two pages were the first drafts that we created for our interview. This interview was created to promote our documentary, to give both sides of the argument to the audience and then let them make their own decision based on what we have reported, and that we don't come across as too biased against the argument.

The interview explains our own ideas and views about the documentary, we thought that this was relevant for our audiences to know because it gives them better understanding as to why we made the documentary in the first place.
We decided on a total of four pictures because we didnt want the article to seem too crowded and jumbled, so after much deliberation we decided to keep it simple and well informed. The final four pictures are one each of us working and a profile picture each.

As our first draft of the interview i'm very pleased with how it is written, how our views are put across to the audience. If i had to improveit the article i would rearrange the presentation to make it look like it was being inserted into a newspaper.

Advertisement Ideas

Recently in lessons we have been coming up with ideas in which to promote our documentary.
such ideas included magazine or newspaper articles, posters, TV advertisements, interviews and radio adverts. considering the time deadline we have we decided from the start that we would advertise using a method that wouldn't cost us too much time but was still up to quality of standard, therefore we decided that we would focus mainly on posters and interviews for magazines or newspapers.
After deciding on these two medias we decided to split the workload so charlie would be writing the interview and i would be creating the posters, by splitting the workload we were able to use the best of our abilities to create the highest quality of work.
The posters i created were based on shocking the parent, so that when they saw the poster they would become insecure about the amount of time their child watched TV for, therefore making them to discover more about the subject.
I decided to use a monotone colour palette and the stencil font because it makes the poster more eye catching to the audience and because their is minimalist information on the poster it will cause the audience to want to research about the documentary more.


















This second poster is'nt as bold as the first poster but the image shows the violence that can be on TV that children watch to parents.
If you notice that on the bottom of each poster i have written that the documentary is on channel four and is based on dispatches.
We decided on this because dispatches are a series of documentaries dedicated to revealing the truth to their audiences and shocking them.

After discussions with our teacher we soon realised that we could not place dispatches on the posters due to copyright laws, so we decided instead to replace it with "march 2010".
The resulting posters ended like so...