Question 1 – In what ways does your media

products use, develop or challenge forms and

conventions of real media products?

Throughout the construction process we

followed all the codes and conventions of the genre,

therefore we have not challenged or developed

these conventions

A4 landscape, versatile shape

Advert contains: slogan, title and scheduling information

Contains two main images which are striking and sums up the programme

Contains the TV channel’s logo

Print Advert

Radio TrailerGives the scheduling information at the end in the following order; title, date and time then the channel

The narrator outlines the narrative and poses questions that may be answered in the documentary

Extracts from the programme are used as we used vox pop and interview answers

A sound effects of a heartbeat is used instead of a music bed because we wanted to make it sound like a horror trailer to entice the audience more

Contains the slogan

The trailer lasts for 49 seconds

DocumentaryNarration • We used a male voiceover in our documentary

because we didn’t want to portray the stereotype that women have more fears than men

• The narrator speaks in Standard English and the narration also acts as glue holding the elements of the documentary together to construct the narrative

• The narrator is of a relevant age to our target audience

DocumentaryCamerawork

The interviews are framed either to the left or right of screen in either; medium close up, close up or big close up

Our documentary Professional documentary

DocumentaryCamerawork• Cutaways were used to break up interview answers • A variety of camerawork was used and on still images

the camera zooms to make it more visually stimulating

Documentary• Cut is the main edit used in our documentary so that

it does not distract the audience from the subject matter

• No fancy editing effects were used that may distract the audience, the only effect used was the fade in and fade out of the graphics

• Fade to white is used after the title sequence to make it more visually creative

• Questions from the interviews were edited out so that we could only hear their answers

Editing

DocumentaryNarrative Structure• Single strand• Non-linear

Sound• Music was used to create an atmosphere. For example

during the spider interviews we wanted it to come across as scary so we used the exorcist theme song. We also then used a Kings of Leon song so that it would be suitable and enjoyable for the target audience

DocumentaryMise-en-scene• Relevant to the topic. For example, for the spider interviews we

created a collage of spiders to make the background more interesting and also we did it because they were filmed in medium close up. For the fear of tall buildings, we filmed the interviewee outside the largest Cathedral in England. Then for the interview with the psychologist we just used a plain wall as the background as he was filmed in big close-up

DocumentaryGraphics• There are two lines; the first is the name and the second is

the relevance to the topic • First line is a bigger type size than second • Simple fonts and colours are used and they are consistent

throughout the programme as well as the length of time they are on screen

• Graphics on title sequence are more creative than the rest