Final Product

Evaluation Question 1

'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?'


Our documentary along with the ancillary texts uses the forms and conventions of media products in a number of ways. In the construction of our products we carefully followed the conventions that we identified at the start of the project.

Question 1

This is an annotated image of the timeline and the script of our radio trailer,  highlighting the codes and conventions of the radio trailer. These were made after listening to radio trailers for 'Storyville' and 'Special Needs Pets', the latter being on Channel 4, which is the same channel that our documentary is going to be shown on.

Question 1 - Print Advert on Prezi

Evaluation Question 2

'How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?'


The Audio below describes how we have combined the 3 texts to create an effective and coherent product.

Evaluation Question 3

'What have you learned from your audience feedback?'


After we finished constructing our main and ancillary texts, we presented this to a number of people for audience feedback. All the people present completed a questionnaire after watching the documentary, radio trailer and print advert.

I recorded some of my audience feedback using the social communication service called skype. This allowed me to use video call to interview a member of my target audience. 

Question 3 - Audience Feedback on Prezi

Evaluation Question 4

'How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages'


We used a variety of new media technologies in every stage of the creation of our main and ancillary texts, and these have been used in combination to make the production as efficient as possible.

For the research and planning of our documentary, we used the internet to research a topic more and to gain a contextual understanding of our topic, and we also utilised Microsoft Office, specifically word, excel and powerpoint. In Office we created questionnaires for our target audience, created the results in excel and presented the results efficiently in a powerpoint. I have chosen to develop on these points in the prezi below.

This video explains the new technologies that were used in the creation process, with the main programme that was used being Adobe Premiere.

I have decided to present the media technologies that I used in my evaluation by annotating screenshots of the different tools that I used.

Production and Photographs For Print Advert

These are the photographs that we took for our print advert. We used two models to experiment between different composition and hair.

These are the screengrabs of the production of the print advert

Changing the exposure levels of the face in different sections gave the appearance of the tanned. Adjusting these levels gave the colours we needed to make a timeline of tan.

Using the transform tool we made sure the Channel 4 logo was the correct size and positioned centrally on the page.

Print Advert Draft

Instead of drawing out a print advert draft, we decided to produce 3 mock ups of possibilities for our print advert quickly in photoshop.

We liked the idea of contrasting levels of tan, so this was a juxtaposition of two different images, one who is very pale and another who is very tanned. We liked this idea, however felt that the execution to create an eye catching and interesting, and not scary, image would have been too difficult, so we took the idea of different levels of tan further. 

To develop from our original idea, we used the same image and divided it into sections, with 2 different coloured skin. We found this to be more effective, however we decided to experiment of how to split up the section.

This mock up is most similar to our final design. We have decided to split the face into 4 sections, with different levels of tan in each box. We decided landscape would be best so the face is even more prominent. At this point we still had a blank background, which is where finally the inspiration for the tubes of a sun bed came in. Also we decided to have each box have a different degree of tan, and each section is more tanned as if you're going round a clock face.We found this to be the most effective.