A2 G325 Evaluation A2 G325 Evaluation Kieran Goulding

In what way does your media In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real forms and conventions of real media productsmedia products

For the documentary that I have made, I have looked to use and in some cases challenge the stereotypical opinion that teenagers have with mobile phones. This was shown in the interview which I conducted with the Head of Year 13, at this point, he agreed that mobile phones did not affect teenagers complete, he stated that they could help teenagers. However with the product that I have done, I have looked to inform and educate the audience though the work that I have done. I think this was done in my documentary though the interviews that I did. It was important that I decided to use two people, this was a student and a teacher. However I do wish that I had used more than use one of both parties because then I would have gained a better understanding from the people who I looked at and interviewed. If more people were asked then I would have been able to find out their opinions and furthermore for them to agree or disagree on the impact is good or bad affecting teenagers.

To develop conventions in the work that I did, I looked at using the channel 4 style guide which was available to download from their website, I have shown in another PowerPoint the work which I have done though using the style guide, I used the style guide so that I could make my documentary fit to the market which I was set to do, this was for a channel 5 audience.

How effective is the combination How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary of your main product and ancillary taskstasks

The combination which I have created between my main product and the ancillary tasks is very effective because both of the factual insert and the radio advert had scenes taken from the completed documentary. The factual insert has been taken from one of the devices which the first interviewee says they do own and the radio advert is taken from the second interview which was done and at this point the stereotypical opinion is being challenged.

Looking at the mode of address though the tasks which I have produced, the audience is expected by me to understand and see that I have made these so that the audience knows that I have made this so that I can educate and inform them on what I feel about the topic and the opinions that others have. They will understand the preferred reading that I hope for them to gain. This preferred opinion will be seen more by the primary audience of my documentary, this will mean that they will watch it and apply it to what they feel about the topic and relate experiences that they have had. The secondary audience would watch what is being shown to them and will not apply it to themselves, this will mean that they will be interested in the topic and watch but wont do what the primary audience will do and understand how technology has affected their education and school lives

What have you learned from your What have you learned from your audience feedback?audience feedback?

To assist me when looking at the work that I did and possible improvements which could have been made, I have made a questionnaire which has been fully analysed using results on the previous PowerPoint.

I have mainly learn that I have done what the audience had expected me to and also bet some expectations which they had about the work that I produced.

As part of the feedback which I have found from the questionnaire, I found that the biggest point that the audience could have been done better was the title of the documentary. The first idea of the title for the documentary was to call it ‘Technology’ but once I found that this was engaging enough, I decided to change the title, I decided to call it ‘Technophilia’. The reason behind this was because it didn’t seem like a boring name to call the production and so it would make it become more appealing to the audience and would mean that I could have more people watch the documentary and express an interest in the documentary as a whole.

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

Throughout the work that I did, I used many different ways to make my whole task as engaging as possible for the audience, I did this by using many different technologies

The main product that I used was the use of a MacBook, this was a learning curve for me because I had not used a product like this before so I had to give myself some time to know how to use it, this was a disadvantage because if I knew what to do and how to use it before I started the construction stage of my work then I would have had an advantage. But, this did have an advantage, this was using the product and the software that was on their compared to what products are on normal laptops or computers. I say this because I used IMovie and Garage Band to do my work on the Apple product, however if I did not use a Apple product then I would have had to use windows movie maker, this would have meant that the end product that I would have produced would have been of a lower quality and this is what I wanted to avoid because if this was the case then I would not have felt that I had fulfilled the needs of the audience and would have produced very poor quality work.

To make my work available to be seen on Blogger, I had to use a wide range of internet pages to put work online. This ranged from using Scridb, Sound Cloud and Slide Share. Scridb was used to put word documents that I had created and turned them into PDF’s so that they could be seen on my website, this was program which I had not used before so this took some time to get used to it, but however this did work to my advantage because once I got used to how it worked, I was able to use it more and more and so it had made documents which I weren’t sure were able to be on there available to be saw by everyone who wished to looked at my work.

Sound cloud is a program which was used to make voice clips and the radio advert which I did able to be used on my blog page. I used this to put my voice recordings of my analysis of the documentaries as this would help make the content that I had already put on about the documentaries more interactive for the audience because they could listen to the response that I had instead of simply just reading the analysis that I had made.

Slide share was used because this was a program that I could put the PowerPoint’s that I made about my work on and also make them interactive for the audience to look at because I have made the PowerPoint's that I created informative and creative though the style that I have adapted in the work done.

This was hard to use at first due to confusion of embed coding but once I had came over this problem everything became straight forward and so this worked out well for me to use this type of software programming