Evaluation (Question 1)

My  main product uses quite a lot of the forms and conventions of real media documentaries, I made it following the research id done into real short documentaries to make sure that my own documentary would easily fit in with the real ones. The first form I stuck to was the narrative of the documentary by piecing together the interview clips with lots of shots of riding. This style of documentary is very popular on websites such as  ‘pinkbike’ as it allows the film makers to condense a lot of the narrative into a short space of time while also showing off the riders skills. I also tried to keep a very fun and flowy style to the filmed clips and the editing of the documentary, this was done to try and mirror the style and delivery of real sporting documentaries. As for mise-en-scene I didn’t want to make the rider look too professional like most other documentaries, I wanted to keep the video very relaxed and fun to make the audience see that anyone could take part and enjoy this sport. This is where some other documentaries of the same genre fall short as they make the riders seem extremely professional almost to a level where people may start to think they couldn’t do what the riders in videos do, this is the opposite message to my own documentary as I wanted everyone to see and be inspired to ride more than they do now.  Another convention I stuck quite rigidly too was the cinematography aspects of filming the riding. I tried to use similar shots too real life sports filming to make sure that my video clips looked just as stylish and fast paced as real documentaries.

My T.V. advert was fairly basic, however I did base it on the adverts I have seen and on the ones I researched at the start of the projects. After analyzing these I tried to keep the basic layout of the page the same with a large, bold tittle to sell the program and catch the audiences eye to make sure they  tune in too watch the documentary. The other part of the tittle is a bit lower down on the page to show it’s a separate it from the riders name, this is also why they’re in a different font to one another to make sure they weren’t too similar or blended into one. I used the same font from the ‘Six Months In’ for the time, date and channel at the bottom of the page. This was just done to create some link between the tittles, and also separate the main tittle and the secondary name of the documentary. The only real way I challenged the normal conventions of a T.V advert was with the image as a background, I did this to make the background of the advert stand out from most other adverts id looked at. However when the image was in colour it was very hard to get the colours right for the tittles and information, changing it too black and white was a good solution to this problem as it made the tittle colours stand out even more than before.

The magazine double page spread sticks rigidly too the normal conventions of magazines layout and forms. However the imagery and style of the page is slightly different to most magazines, I made the page look slightly more exciting with the use of a bold background picture and the smaller images of riding. The background image works amazingly in black and white as it allows the images on top to really stand out from the rest of the page, the image itself is also part of what makes it work with the rider on one side of the pages with the article around him to make sure he stands out.  The typefaces I used was the same fun and more scriptive font for the tittle and the same colour scheme as well, this is the same for the sub tittle as well however I did stager the individual words on the page to create some more interesting shapes rather than just a straight line of text. I tried to make the smaller images look as if they were ontop of the magazine rather than just part of the page, this doesn’t follow the conventions of most double page spreads as most would have neatly arranged the images to go along side the text.  This was not the style I wanted to go with so I decided to make the images look more 3D to make my DPS more fun and energetic than most of the same style magazines.