Ancillary Task

When creating the Ancillary Task, we wanted our piece to reflect a mimic of the guardians film magazine articles in G2. We also took inspiration from other magazines like the Times Culture and Radio Times. Many Film magazines help to promote up and coming TV Series', documentaries, Blockbuster Films and low budget films. We felt that our Documentary 'An Apple a Day...' would be best suited in either G2 or Times Culture as the documentary is aimed at a sophisticated, historically interested and broad minded person. We started off by figuring out the articles layout and planning which photos, we had taken, we wanted to include in the article. A lot of the photos we chose we ended up editing in photo shop to either brighten them up or give them an interesting pop art effect. After reading many articles that were written about documentaries, a similar interest to ours or a related style of writing; we used this inspiration and technique of writing to compose our own article to promote our documentary.

We started off by writing the basic information that people would want to know first thing before reading the article, information like the date it will be played, channel, time, genre and what it is about. We then focused on talking about the production, the film makers and including witty humour throughout to keep the reader interested. We kept the majority of the writing plain and simple with the colour black but for the heading and sub-heading we changed the colour to make it stand out at a first glance. A film reel is situated at the right hand side of the piece and photos taken by our self and editing have been placed in the reel slides.

We thought this would add a stylish look to the magazine article. The end result turned out better than we all thought, the effort and time taken to produce the piece was worth it for the final copy which stood out and had a great witty descriptive writing piece.

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Audience Feedback of An Apple A Day...

After completing our Documentary after hours of hard work and time consuming filming and preparation days, we felt that it wouldn't be fair to just leave the film how it was and how we thought it should be. This is where the Audience feedback comes in. We asked two sets of groups to watch and comment on our documentary, one group being the rest of our Media Class, helping us to give a professional eye on our work, and the other being a set of friends who are interested in and participate in some way into the drama and media world.

After watching and giving us feedback we came back with many comments, both positive and negative. Some positive ones which stood out to me would be that they liked the integration of the shots being spliced together, but still keeping in theme and in the storyline of the documentary. Also the interviews and natural atmospheric sounds which were used instead of music, the interviews were said to give a realistic vibe to the documentary.

Some negative and constructive comments that were given, were used to help change and improve our film, things like; one person felt the title's font should be the same, and to just use different colours to help make the title stand out. Another thing being some people noticed a jumping at the start of one of the scenes, this was quickly edited out and made to look professional again.

Overall i feel that the audience feedback was a good thing to get as it gave a second set of eyes to look at the piece, they were able to distinguish things that we hadn't even thought or noticed to be a problem, this meant making the documentary more professional and to the highest standard we could do.