Media evaluation:

At the beginning of our A2 Media Studies course we were briefed that for the contents of our coursework we would be required to produce a five minute documentary extract, a forty second radio trailer as well as a double page spread based on my group’s chosen topic. After discussing possible topics we came to the conclusion that our chosen topic would be the recession and its impact of young people.

I was then introduced to the documentary theory ‘documentary modes’ developed by American critic and theorist Bill Nicholas. Nicholas believed that all documentaries fit into a certain ‘mode,’ or can have different aspects of a mixture of documentary ‘modes’ which are poetic, expository, observational, participatory reflexive and performative.

Poetic mode aims to stress a specific mood or tone in order to persuade the audience to lean towards the filmmaker’s subjective viewpoint of the subject. Expository mode uses a narrative voice over also known as the ‘voice of God’ to reinforce the views of the filmmaker in the documentary as it strengthens their argument of the subject, something noteworthy about these two modes is that although they are clearly different they work hand in hand together in order to support to view that the filmmaker is attempting to emphasis in their documentary. Observational mode is what the public would most associate documentary with as they are used heavily in wildlife documentaries. This documentary mode uses the fly on the wall perspective as the filmmaker cannot interactive with the characters and can only film their actions. This documentary allows the characters to have a greater sense of power that all over documentary modes. Reflexive mode demonstrates consciousness of the process of reading documentary, and engages actively with the issues of realism and representation, acknowledging the presence of the viewer and the modality judgements they arrive at. Participatory mode is another popular documentary mode used in numerous documentaries today and involves the filmmakers moving away from behind the camera and becoming the subject of the documentary an example of this is Morgan Spurlocks ‘Super-size me’ documentary. Performative documentaries stress subjective emotional responses through personal, unconventional means in order for the audience to create their own interpretation of the documentaries events and often autobiographical in nature.

When applying these documentary modes to my own documentary I believe it predominately mode my documentary uses throughout is the expository mode. The reason why I decided to use the expository mode is because it is extremely popular in professional documentaries on television and therefore by using a well-known convention in our documentary will allow our documentary to mirror previous professional documentaries that have used this convention and therefore will create greater realism for our documentary prompting our target audience to watch our documentary. The expository allowed the documentary to seem more factual as a result of the statics as well as dates and figures we included. This documentary mode also tends to be rhetorical throughout in terms of the way the narrative communicates to the

audience, in order to appeal to their emotions of the recession which overall it proved it by very effective and allows our documentary to have a greater sense of professionalism which we ultimately invite our target audience to watch our documentary. However, although we predominately use the expository mode there is an element of poetic mode within our documentary. My evidence for this is my documentary throughout aims stress and provides a strong argument that ‘rising tuition fees are unfair.’

In order to ensure that my own documentary would be a success, I began to research and critically analysis professional documentaries. Some examples of documentaries I analysed are Supersize me, Teenager heroine epidemic and Panorama recession crisis.I first documentary I analysed was a documentary that revolves around renowned filmmaker and television producer Morgan Spurlock consuming solely a McDonald’s diet for 30 days. From watching his documentary I discovered a wide variety of codes and conventions, I and felt I could incorporate some of their conventions into my own documentary.

From the two images present the similarity is evident. Firstly the rules of thirds apply to both documentaries. The rule of thirds is a principle that an image should be imagined as divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, in order for the image to proportioned equally on the page or in this case the screen. Another similarity in codes and conventions between my documentary and the real life documentary ‘Super-size me’ is that both documentaries have their characters looking into ‘dead space’ this was crucial to have in our documentary as not only does it create realism but it doesn’t make the documentary seem pre-structured and rehearsed which would result in making our documentary look fake and unrealistic.

Moreover, from the same images it is also clear at the persona which they both aim to create. In Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super-size me’ to individual to revealed to be a professor at a university, the documentary helps to build this identity as prop use of glasses have intelligence and sophisticated connation’s helping the audience believe that this man is a university professor. I aimed to display mise-en-scene in my documentary also and did so in many aspects. Firstly the women’s prop, an ID card immediately makes it evident that she is a professional in the college and helps reinforce and establish her position in the documentary as a mentor for young people. The use of the prop which got its inspiration for ‘Super-size me’ aids in making the women look specialized and professional which in turn results in the documentary seeming to appear realistic and believable. In addition, the women’s clothes also aid the documentary is appearing genuine as similar to the gentlemen on ‘super-size me’ they

Super-Size Me Documentary:

My Documentary:

are both clothes for a working environment which have a sense of authority and expertise which helps reinforce the idea that the individual being interviewed is a relevant and qualified to be apart and give input and advice in our documentary. Furthermore, the setting also plays a vital role in establishing the believability of the documentary as like the professional documentary my documentary has books, folders and leaflets stationed around my interviewee. This again assists in making the documentary seem realistic as the use of books in the background aid the interviewee once again to seem professional and qualified to be in this documentary which helps the documentary seem authentic which will appeal to our target audience, enticing them to watch our documentary.

I also decided to use an establishing shot of the college, I decided to do this as it was a convention I found in all of the documentaries I had critically analyzed and research and seemed only logical to have a familiar convention in my documentary so that the audience can relate this documentary to previous documentaries they had watched. The use of the establishing shot will also help set the scene for my documentary and is useful as it helps

breaks the sections between my interviews and voiceovers

My documentary has a presenter, I found this a relevant convention to use because when I watched ‘Super-size me’ I found the presenter to be welcoming and friendly. I believed that if my documentary used the same approach it could improve my documentary significantly as the warm, hospitable approach will entice and invite my target audience to watch my documentary which will increase the number of rating my documentary achieves resulting in my documentary

becoming a success.

However, one way in which my documentary challenges codes and conventions are that in Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super

My Documentary:

My Documentary:

–size me’ a hand held camera is used. I decided not use a hand held camera in my documentary for various reasons firstly, when I researched why hand held camera are used I discovered that they are predominately used to make the audience see the events of the documentary through the events of the main character. Or they can be used to reveal the character’s feelings for example fear. Initially I thought of possible ways in which I could use the hand held camera in my documentary but when reviewing my storyboard and the way I wanted to shoot the documentary I decided it would not be relevant for my documentary and therefore decided to leave it out as I thought it would neither benefit or improve my documentary.

The most obvious convention to use in my documentary is the interviews. Our interviews were spilt between young people and experienced professionals which is similar to the way ‘Super- size me’ filmed their documentaries as throughout it was a mix between McDonald enthusiast and experienced food expertise. Firstly, a for my research and watching documentaries in my own time it is clear that the

mainstream of documentaries have interviews, I felt that this code and convention had to be used and should not be ignored as it may alienation our target audience because without interviews that documentary may seem amateurish and ill thought of. I decided to mirror ‘super-size me’ me interviewing two sets of groups, one group affected by the topic – the recession and the other giving advice on how to combat and resolve the problem. I decided to shoot the documentary in this way so that so the target audience can get both sides of the subject. Nevertheless, on way it which my documentary’s interviews challenge codes and conventions are that for all of the students I interviewed they were all males. If given the opportunity to create another documentary I would alter this as I believe there should be a mix of both male and female students in order to display that this is a problem for all young people regularly of their gender in order to seem not biased and focuses solely on one side of the argument.

Another convention we used which once again used and developed media codes and conventions was the use of found footage. I decided to use found footage because I believed it to be a useful way of splitting my documentary away from my interviews and presenter as using solely these two conventions could make my target audience feel bored and they would therefore lose interest in my documentary. However, the use of the found footage gives my target audience something new to look at and will maintain my target audiences’ interest and attention on my documentary. My found footage was used to give statics and illustrations of the recession; I believe the statics used through

my found footage will benefit my documentary as these will make my documentary appear more professional and will therefore draw not only my target audience to watch my documentary but also others who are interested in watching a professional, well explorer topic which are affecting people across the UK.

Another convention I used and paid particular interest to when construction my documentary was sound. From my research I discovered sound fell into certain categories such as background music, presenter, voiceover, diegetic and non-diegetic. I decided to use background music as from the documentaries (Super-size me and Teenager Heroin addiction) I discovered that they both use background music. The background can also benefit the documentary as the type of music used can portray the style of the documentary, for example in ‘Teenager Heroin addiction’ the music was heavy and fast paced in order to depict the sinister and evil aspects of drug use. For our documentary we used soft music, we did this particularly in the opening of our documentary as we wanted music that would be appealing to our target audience and invite them to watch and continue to watch my documentary in addition, my evidence that soft music will appeal to my target audience is through my questionnaire.

I also decided to use special effects in my documentary, I first decided to use special effects because I discovered they were used heavily in super-size me and therefore I wanted my documentary to be just as good as the documentary I am basing it on. I numerous special effects in my documentary, some examples include a cross dissolve. The cross dissolve allowed me to create a slight gap between interviews, the presenter and voiceover which made sure that my documentary was not just a block of text without any gaps which made sure boredom did not occur to the audience.

Magazine Double Page Spread:

The second piece of my coursework was to produce a double page spread magazine article

revolving around my topic- the recession. Once again I researched and critically analysed magazines double page spread articles in order to gain an understanding of them. From this I discovered a variety of codes and conventions which I planned to instrument in my own documentary. The first convention I used in my double page spread was the masthead. The masthead is a crucial part of not double page spreads but many types of publications such as newspapers and leaflet. The masthead acts as a title and also gives information on the topic it is based on.

Another code and convention I used was the drop caption, I decided to use this as it was on all of the double page spreads i analysed and would aid in making my double page spread seem more professional.

I decided to use a pull quote as once again it was in all of the magazine articles I analysed plus it is a way of getting the attention of my target audience as it is something that is affecting them which therefore my appeal and attract them to reader my article.

We also used images all of students in a college environment, I did this because of target audience are predominately students and will be in a similar college as this on and will therefore attract them to read about a topic that is affecting them.

I also decided to display the time; date and channel the documentary would be broadcasted. I decided to use this convention as without it our target audience would not know when or where to watch our documentary and it therefore crucial to the success of our documentary.

Moreover, I used headlines, due to the fact they were in every double page spread I analysed. This was useful as it gave who give the target audience information on the topic our documentary was about.

However, one way in which my magazine double page spread differs from other double page spreads is the layout. Coventionally the layout would be a large image that reflects the topic on the left hand side of the page and text on the right hand side on the page. I chose to ignore this covention and have a greater mixture of text and images because I felt using only one image would seem ameturish and rushed but using more that one would show that I had put thoght and effort into it plus, this allowed me to have a greater amount of text on both pages as this is a topic that must have great detail in it as it is a wide and extensive topic.

Radio trailer:

Before contruction my radio trailer I watched a variety of professional ones in order to gain an understaning of them and filled out my findings on my ‘radio trail analysis’ grid.

Although my topic is a serious one affecting many people in the UK I

did not want to have a grim voiceover as this will be an unattractive quality and may lead to our target audience not watching our documentary. Therefore I decided to use a calm, relaxed voiceover, as the audience can recieve all of the information about my documentary and a more composed voiceover will seem more appealing and make the radio trailer and the documentary seem more professional prompting my target audience to watch the documentary which will led to it becoming a success.

I also mentioned the time, date and channel of my documentary, due to that fact that this is the most common convention used in radio trailers and would therefore only seem logical to have it in our radio trailer. This is important to have in our radio trailer as without it my target audience would not know when to watch our documentary.

Overall, i believe I used numerous codes and coventions of documentary, radio trail and double page articles and although at times I also challenged them i still believe this not only aided but improved my coursework pieces and will lead to them becoming a success with my target audience.

Media question 2

Along with my television documentary I also produced a radio trailer along with a double page spread magazine article. The finally two coursework units were contructed to help sell and advertise my television documentary, and therefore it was crucial that they blended and worked well together. Our target audience for my documentary is males and females as the recession will ultimately affected everyone regardless of their gender. In terms of age I am targeting an age range of 18-25 as this is the age who I feel will be affected by the rising university tuition fees and rising youth unemployment due to the recession. My target audience’s social class will be stationed on the C2/D border line as these are the two classes who will feel the full force of the recession and the affects that have followed. When discusing lifestyle we discovered through research that young people have an interest in music, going to the gym and cinema. We decided to incorprate some of this in our documentary in order to display the problems our target audience are having in managing their fiances and being unable to do the things they enjoy due to the recession.

My radio trailer consisted of our footage from our documentary and both contain similar aspects such as revealing facts, young peoples and experienced professionals opinions, ways to resolve the recession and the impact the recession has had on our society e.g. rise in crime, unemployment and tuition fees, it is for this reason that I

believe they link and blend well together as they both convey the same message throughout. In addition I also used the same background music and voiceover, this will definitely create a strong relation between the two media products and help create a musical slogan. Having the same background music and voiceover on both media products will help my target audience remember my documentary due to the beat they hear on my radio trailer.

I decided that my radio trailer should be on radio 4 as from my discussion with my target audience through focus groups I discovered that it is a popular radio station with them. My other evidence that radio 4 would be the ideal radio station to promote my radio trailer is because on average radio 4 capture 10.83 million of our target audience every week. Due to the popularity radio 4 has with our target audience I believe that once our target audience listens to our radio trailer they will then be enticed to watch our documentary on channel 4.

The magazines article on the uses the image of a student, I did this to show the audience of someone they will expect to see and hear in the documentary. I felt this links the documentary well with the magazine article as it directly shows something that the audience will see when they watch it. However, I felt the magazine double page spread does not appeal to my target audience as much as my radio trailer as it was a lot harder to build a relationship between it and my documentary, something I would change if I had the opportunity to do it again.

Media 3

In order to gain feedback on all of my media products I conducted a small scale pilot study through the use of a questionnaire and get it to 20 individuals, and posed the following questions:

Questions for my documentary:

The results from this questions show that a large percentage of the 20 individuals that took part in this small scale study pilot felt that the sound levels were consistent. I paid particular emphasis on this as it was an important part of the documentary. However the remaining 30% felt it was not consistent, this is useful information to know and can aid me if I had the opportunity to create another documentary.

70%

From the results it is evident that a large percentage agrees that they can hear the sound dialogue clearly. I am satisfied with this result as it shows a large majority are

pleased with the sound which I focused on heavily when constructing the documentary.

I am very pleased with the results of this question as it evidently shows that my documentary was a success with my target audience which was the purpose of its creation.

Were The Sound Levels Consistent

YesNo

Can You Hear All Of The Dialogue Clearly

YesNo

Does The Documentary Flow?

Yes No

85%

100%

This question shows that a large proportion of the people who completed my questionnaire believed that my interviews were relevant to the documentary, this was very important to get right because if it were not my documentary could have suffered and may have led to it becoming a failure

This was a crucial to achieve as it is a key convention of documentaries, from the results it is evidence that my documentary is successful in accomplishing this.

This was the most vital question to get a positive result on due to the fact that this question determined whether my target audience felt my documentary was a success. From the results it is clear my documentary was a success and it did appeal to my target audience which was the purpose of its creation

The editing was another crucial convention to master and be performed correctly in order for my documentary to have

Are all Of The Interviews Relevant To The Topic Of TheDocumentary

YesNo

81%

19%

Does The Music Suit The Docu-mentary

YesNo

How Successful Would You Say The Documentary Is?

Very Successful

Successful

OK

Just About

Not At All

89%

60 20

10% 8%

2%

89 15 10

a professional appearance. From the results I feel I achieved this which strengths the previous evidence that my documentary was a success

Questions for my radio trailer:

The sounds levels were a top priority to get correct as the audience can only hear the content on the radio which was therefore extremely important to get it right in order to make our radio trailer a success, which from the questionnaire results evidently shows we did.

How Successful Would You Say The Editing Is?

Very Success-fulSuccessfulOKJust AboutNot At All

Were The Sound Levels Consistent

YesNo

69%

31%

When constructing the radio trailer I paid particular concentration to the editing. I did this because from my research into radio trailers I discovered that the editing had to be strong in order for the radio trailer to be successful. From the results it is evident that my target audience believed my radio trailer’s editing to be strong which therefore shows that my radio trailer overall was

strong and successful.

From the results shown it is evident that a large majority of my target audience believed my radio trailer did flow and evidently demonstrates that it was a success. Although 15% of my target audience believed it did not flow this is only a small

percentage and the 75% outweighs this small minority greatly. This shows that overall my target audience believed my radio trailer was successful in blending and flowing together.

From the results shown it is evidently that in a certain degree my target audience did believe my radio trailer to be successful however, it is evident that they believe there is room for improvement. If given the opportunity to construct the radio trailer again I would put my emphasis on the radio trailer in order to ensure a greater level of a

How Successful Would You Say The Editing Is?

Very Success-fulSuccessfulOKJust AboutNot At All

75 15 10

Does The Radio Trailer Flow

Yes No

75

15

successful rating from my target audience.

Magazine article questions:

When researching double page spread articles I discovered that the language used is very important in attempting the lure and entice your target audience to watch your

documentary. From the results I believe it is evident that my target audience do find the language used suitable which will in turn attract them to watch my documentary as ultimately make it a success.

It was very important to stress the genre and the style of the documentary in the magazine double page spread in order for my target audience to be appealed to watch the

documentary and from the results it clearly shows that I achieved this. However, we did receive feedback in ways that we could have improved the use the double page spread through use of images which was ‘using experienced professionals not only young people’ although young people are a main focus point of my documentary it also focuses on experienced professionals also therefore, if given the chance to attempt to reconstruct my double page spread I would add images experienced professionals to strengthen my magazine article and ensure of wider range of my target audience and others audiences watch my documentary.

How Successful Would You Say The Radio Trailer Is?

Very Successful

Successful

OK

Just About

Not At All

Did The Language Fit The Style Of The Magazine Article

Very SuccessfulSuccessfulOK

Does The Images Used Support The Style/Genre Of The Documentary

Yes No

15

5%

95 5%

From the results it is clear that are large proportion of my target audience believed my magazine double page spread was successful in its message to appeal them to watch the magazine.

From the results it is evident that the majority of my target audience would watch my documentary after reading my double page spread this was the main purpose of the creation of the double page spread and clearly demonstrates the it was a overwhelming success. Although 2% of my target audience would not watch the

documentary this is useful information because I can use their criticism and make sure I do not make the same mistake again if I have the opportunity to produce another double page spread. Overall this 2% in a small minority and does not have much effect on the overall success of my double page spread.

To conclude I believe all the results show that all three of my media products were successful and I have also received constructive criticism which I can use to my benefit if given a chance to produce any or all three of the media products again.

Question 4:

Research and planning was critical in order form my construct a successful television documentary as well as a radio trailer and double page spread. Although I

How Successful would you rate the magazine article

Very successfulSuccessfulOK Not at all

75

20

5%

After Reading The Magazine Article Would You Watch The Documentary

Yes No

98

2%

would later use media technologies I began simply using paper and plotting ideas for my documentary. I did this through the use of mind maps and by creating a storyboard to depict the events of my documentary. Once my topic was selected and how I would go about depicting my documentary I began to research my topic. I first began about doing this by using a variety of newspapers and article websites such as BBC, The Guardian, The Daily telegraph, The Times and The Sunday Times through the use of the internet. These websites were extremely beneficial for our research and planning into the recession and it gave me facts, figures statics as wells as the public’s personal stories on how the recession has affected them. This allowed me to strengthen my knowledge and outlook on the recession and equipped me with a variety of information which I then planned in incorporating in my documentary.

After gaining insightful knowledge on the recession I then turned my eye to television channels in order to establish which television channel would be the most suitable to broadcast my documentary. I then began going to various television channels and looking on their documentary channels, I then began to look for any documentary programmes that were similar or were is some way compatible to my topic – the recession. The television channels I researched were BBC One, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Three. I discovered that BBC three was the most suitable and most compatible

television channel to broadcast my documentary, I came to this conclusion as all of the documentaries I found on their website and by watching BBC Three documentaries through YouTube and BBC iplayer that their documentaries focus on social issues in our society that are affecting young people, this is the exact genre of our documentary and therefore I believe this makes it evident that BBC

Three was the most suitable choice.

All of the coursework that I or a member of my group had done was then to be uploaded onto Blogger.com; this is where the group first started their journey into researching and constructing documentaries, radio trailers and magazine articles and shows the process we have all made from the beginning. This website was useful as it allowed us all to work together, share ideas and strengthens each other’s coursework.

When all our researching and planning was completed we then began to put our theory into action by using all of the information we had collected to actually produce the documentary. To film the footage for our documentary we used a Canon HG20 High Definition Camera, this was a very useful and had integrate design making it was easy to take shots as well as filming our characters. The camera allowed us to zoom in and out which was useful when we wanted to frame a shot or make the shot apply to the rule of thirds. We were also

able to manipulate the lighting, we did this because in some areas

where we took our shots the lighting was very bleak and the camera allowed balancing the lighting which aided in our documentary to appear professional and well planned. Moreover, we also took photographs with this camera which allowed us to manipulate and edit them when producing the magazine double page spread. The camera was relatively light and easy to hold and we did this was taking shots for our magazine article however, when it came to filming our interviews and voxpops it was essential that we used a tripod. The tripod allowed centring the camera in order to get a straight shot which from our research suggest we key to get right, it also allowed us to use a variety of other shots such as panning and zooming in and out without the camera moving or shaking. The only negative aspect of using the tripod was that it was difficult to keep moving to different locations to film different setting as at first it was difficult to fold up after using it and was fairly heavy.

Moreover, as wells as using a camera and a tripod it was crucial that we used recording equipment for the sound, because from our research and general knowledge of documentaries it is essential to get the sound right otherwise the documentary will lack and will look amateurish and unprofessional. The equipment we used was a directional microphone for our voxpops and interviews to record the sound and used Sennheiser headphones to ensure that the sound levels were correct and to ensure that no unwanted noise mixed in with our interviews such as background noise or other

students talking who were no needed. Our environment being a college was loud for most of the time when filming therefore we came up with a solution which was using a quiet empty classroom and conducting our interviews there.

When all of our filming was complete we used an Apple iMac to editing our footage to form our documentary. At first we found the editing quite complex however, after repetition and instruction by our teacher is some became easy

and second nature. To editing our footage we used Final Cut Express and used this programme constantly from the beginning to end of our documentary. To begin to edit our footage we would have to ‘log and transfer’ the totality of our documentary footage and then watch and sort out all of the footage that we wanted and did not want for our documentary.

We then renamed all of the footage that we wanted to use in our documentary so that we did not become confused by the numerous amounts of footage and then went onto begin to edit. Below is an example of our documentary of what it looked like during the editing stage.

My group’s unedited footage A window to watch our documentary

Editing toolsVisual footage

Timeline for documentary

Whilst using final cut express we all we given the opportunity to edit and become familiar with its tools, throughout the editing process we used a variety of tools such as transitions. We used this tool a lot through firstly because it was a major convention used in documentaries which we discovered through ‘Super-size me’ ‘Teenager Heroin addiction’ and various other documentaries we watched. Moreover, it was a useful way of breaking up the interviews, voxpops, presenters and establishing shots which made sure of audience would not get bored and encourage them to continue to watch our documentary.

An additional tool we used frequently was the razor blade tool particularly for our interviews and voxpops. For our interviews that we some points were not

valid or relevant to our documentary or were too long, the razor tools allowed us to select the section of the interview that we wanted to use and discard any unwanted footage. This was a useful tool and allowed us to adjust our clips easily with little effort.

The sound levels tool was another valuable tool we used throughout the editing process, it was essential that the sound levels were correct

and this tool allowed us to pan, centre and balance the sounds levels to the frequency that we wanted. This was a simple tool to use however, it was crucial that we used it so that we could produce a high standard documentary.

Moreover, we also used the text tool often, we decided to use this tool because from watching our model documentary ‘Super-size me’ we discovered that the professionals or people of note or importance to the documentary were named visually. We decided to adopt this to our documentary as it helped in making our documentary seem more professional and raise a high level to our documentary.

To produce music for our documentary we decided to make it from scratch by using a programme called ‘Garage band.’ We create simple background music for our documentary by used it predominately for our radio trailer.

When using media technologies for our radio trailer Garage band was the main programme we used for its construction. Garage band gave us a variety of sounds to mix and play with until we were happy with the sound we produced. The music options we were given were ‘cheerful, urban, electronic, guitar, piano, drums etc. The controls were easy to use and once we were happy with the music we created we simply transferred it into an mp3 file and added it to our radio trail etc.

Our magazine article required use to use two pieces of software which were Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Adobe InDesign CS6. To begin to create our double page spread on Adobe InDesign we open a double page spread and then began to import all the images we wanted to use. After all of our images were selected we then used Microsoft Word 2010 to begin to attempt our text for our article. Once our text and images were arranged and complete on the double page spread we then began to add codes and conventions of double page spreads which we had learnt from our research such as masthead, pull quote, headlines, caption etc.

Once my double page spread was complete I then wanted to edit my images because some of them had people in the background looking at the camera and or in other shots I wanted to add an effect. For both circumstances I had to use a tool of Adobe Photoshop CS6 known as the magnetic lasso. This was a useful tool that ensured that any areas of the images that I wanted removed could be done so easily with minimal effort. From my research editing the images correctly was an important convention that must be done correctly, and when I look at my double page spread I feel I have achieved that.

To conclude, I feel my research, planning construction and feedback of my documentary, radio trailer and double page spread was successful and I am happy and proud with the coursework me and my colleagues produced and I believe it has be accomplished to a high standard.