Codes and conventions of radio trailers and posters

Codes and convention of radio trailers

From Documentary’s
- Must announce the title, and the day, time and channel at the end of the advertisement
- Must have a music bed, track underneath, and heard extracts from the programme
-Involve snippets from interviews
Our radio trailer from documentary


An example of a real radio trailer from the BBC


Voice over
-Outlines the narrative
-Sometimes poses questions which will be addressed in the programme
-Teases the audience
-Voice over has to be appropriate to the programme
-radio trailer normally lasts between 30 and 40 seconds


Codes and conventions of posters, adverts

- Strong image should be used
- Got to be a minimum of words
- There has to be a main slogan which stands out
- Has to show the name of the programme
- Has to show the logo of the channel, and has to stand out
- Most posters are portrait
Pics of posters

Individual Editing

Individual editing

After we filmed all the footage for our documentary we used Adobe Premiere software to edit it and constructed the first five minutes of our documentary. We also had a logging sheet which we kept logs and an order of what footage we had filmed, and what we didn’t film. The first thing we worked on was the opening titles to our documentary, originally we had planned to start the programme with a montage of clips from our overall documentary, but after making our minds as a group we decided it would look more effective if we started the documentary of a montage of different clips of the different subcultures we where doing about in the programme, all cutting after each other before our title.

Our title 'Fitting In' appears in the middle of the screen on a black background and out fades into the documentary. After trying out the different fonts and styles for our title, we decided to just have the word 'Fitting' in the screen in a red font and then the idea of the 'in' in the word 'fitting' which would be changed and highlighted in blue so it symbolizes 'fitting in'. After trying it out and playing it back we decided it did look eye catching and decided to have that as our opening title. Which would appear on the screen over an image of one of the subcultures, which then the screen fades to black into the background.

While editing we found that there where a few errors which we needed to change, for example when looking at our running order we had planned to have a voxpop after our opening titles, which had worked well but we were stuck on having something in between the voxpop and our interviews’ that would link the programme together. We where originally going to use footage from Lee Evans' stand-up show DVD as he criticizes teenagers, but after playing around with the footage,we decided it was not relevant and the information we wanted from the DVD was too short to use anyway. In the end we found clips from music videos by artists that have been known to have a strong link to some of the subcultures we have used in our programme. Which included Eminem and Marilyn Manson, we mixed the archive footage together with more still images of subcultures and teenagers so we decided that it would link to the voice over we could use to introduce the documentary.

I then helped to edit through the six interviews that we had filmed with Dean Carr, Callum McIness, Mr Quinn, Lisa Smeadley, Lee Farragher and Josh Gilroy. We wanted to use their answers but to also make some sense when putting together. I found that Josh Gilroy's answers were not of any use; even though we had eight minutes of an interview with him none of his answers were use able because they did not fit in with the theme of the programme. This was because we could not interpret what the questions were that he had been asked.

In Deans and Callum's interview they both gave appropriate answers to their stereotypes . With Lisa and Lee's interviews we saw what it felt like to be stereotyped but they did not necessarily follow their stereotype. Mr.Quinn's interview is the main vocal point of our documentary in the way that it is the first interview in the running order and his explanation of what a subculture is sets everything in motion, its the foundation that states what this documentary is about.

We decided to edit the interviews together to create meaning. Which would be to have Callum's interview starting off the interviews with the teenagers cutting straight into Dean's interview. Dean mentions at the end of his interview the stereotypical view people have on scallies and we thought it would link well if Lee's interview cuts and comes in straight after Dean's explanation, which worked very well.
After all the interviews had been edited and where put into order, we went through all the other footage to decide what types of cutaways we could use for each different interview. The main cutaway we thought was amazing as it stuck like glue was Mr.Quinn's interview as he talks about teenagers as he says '...the way they dress' and we edited it exactly to put footage of teenage emo kids that Joel filmed walking down the street, so we used that as the cutaway. A lot of the cutaways we used for Lee, Dean and Lisa where mainly still images which we had found on the Internet. Which they did link to what the two interviewees said. However we also had to film a pan down of Lee and the clothes he wore on the day of his interview so it would indicate with a line what he said in the interview'"the clothes I wear for college'".

When deciding which song to use which would come on as soon as the documentary started, i came up the idea of the song, "teenage dirt bag". I thought the song was highly appropriate as it linked in very well with the subject of the documentary, as it is based on teenagers and their different subcultures. I overall think that the song which was used put the over all effect to our documentary.

Overall I reckon the editing process went very well. We also did not have to film anything extra because because we had enough footage, however we did have to add quite a lot of achieve material to link the whole programme together. I also agree that the way we have edited our interviews and archive footage, and the way the archive footage is used as cutaways worked very well overall.


The screen grabs below are examples of editing which we had done while making the documentary
This picture above of the women was used to make the voxpop at the beginning of our programme which was showed after the montage of pictures which introduced the documentary
This screen grab above is proof to show that we edited Lisa Smedlys interview, cutting out the questions which we had asked her and the unwanted information we did not need.

The two screengrabs of the "Fitting in" is showing how we made the title for our documentary

This was the original font we had decided but because it did not look proffesional we did not use it

The screengrab above was used for a cutaway in Mr Quinns interview. It was used when he said about says " children behavouring differently" we had to edit this so that it was long enough for when Mr quinn said that line.

The screengrab above was also used at the beginning of the documentary during the voxpop.

Storyboards and logging sheets

1. The interview of Callum

Here are the uploaded images from the storyboards we drew out when planning our interviews and mise-en-scene and also the planned images for our opening titles (contains interview plans for Callum McIness, Lisa Smeadley, Lee Farragher, Josh Gilroy, The Sociology teacher):

The mise-en-scene of Callum, are magazines that relate to blood and violence. Callum is wearing a dark top which symbolises Goths.
2.The interview of Lee

The Mise-en-scene for lee was just a plain white background as it doesn't show anything as he is not involved in any particular social group, but gets labelled as a scally because of what he wears. 3. The interview of Dean

The Mise-en-scene for Dean was a can of fosters, television and his belongings at the side of the television to symbolises a typical lads bedroom.




4. The interview of Lisa

The interview mise-en-scene of Lisa, was a typical goths bedroom, with a red wall plastered with posters of Mariyln Manson and other posters associated with goths.

The Mise-en scene of Josh Gilroy was similar t Lisa's mise.en-scene apart from he had posters on the wall associated with Emos and not goths.

This is the evidence of the Logging sheets what we did. Of the filming we decided to use and the filming which we did not use.

Whilst filming and editing we made a note of the times each shot was taken on the camera and how long the shot was and what the shot contained, this made it easier to keep track of the footage we had captured and easier to determine which footage we'd use in the final cut of our documentary.

Individual Filming and voice over script

While filming and the documentary I took part in all filming apart from two interviews as the place and time was inconvenient for me. The two interviews which i did not take part in was Lisa Smedleys and Josh Gilroys, these two interviews where filmed by one of my group members, Joel.
However the filming i did take part in involved recording the interviewee while another group member asked the questions, and the other taking pictures of us doing so to show evidence.
The first interview we did was with Callum McIness. As this was our first interview we where not fully confident with recording and getting the framing right and lighting right. Easily mistakes where also made for example the microphone was turned off so when it came to capturing there was no sound. Therefor we had to film it again. Also the lighting was too dark and the pictures did not symbolise Callum properly as they where not seen due to poor light. The second time we filmed Callum we over came our mistakes and it was filmed perfectly. This time we made sure the light and framing was perfect, making sure that the posters in the back ground could be seen, and we made sure that the microphone was switched on. However when we did our first recording, we did it in a classroom, and when we came back to re filming the second time, we could not record in there as a class was in there. Therefor we had to go to the dinner hall as it was the only place available where it was quiet. In the middle of recording we found that we got intterupted a number of times by dinner ladies as they kept making noises in the background, by opening doors which echoed, causing us to
repeat questions and answers. This was not a major problem as we can just take it out when it comes to editing.

This is a picture of me setting up the camera before Callums interview Joel took this picture before we started filming This picture was taking as i was filming and Brian was asking the questions

The second interview i took part in was the interview with Mr Quinn ,the Sociology teacher. As i recorded the interview, Joel asked the questions. At first the i made sure that the framing was right so that the eye line was third the way up on the camera. When i thought everything was ok to film, i began recording. But first I and Joel decided to do a dummy run to check if everything was working. After we had done our first bit of filming we played back to check, everything was fine but yet again no sound, that's when we realised that we had forgotten to switch the microphone on. After realising there was no sound we switched the microphone on and we carried on with the interview. However as i was recording, Mr Quinn was sitting next to a computer with a blue screen, after a few minutes i realised the screen went from blue to black. I did not know if it would have effected the recording, but hopefully we can take it out when it comes to editing.
The third interview i did was Dean Carr,s interview, i did everything on my own as Joel and Brian could not make it. Normally when we do interviews there is always another group member there to help so that someone was not left doing everything on their own. As i did the interview on my own I found it hard to keep on top of everything as I had to get the framing right, make sure everything was working at the same time as asking the interviewee the questions and recording the interview at the same time.I found that in between questions i had to keep moving from the chair where i was asking questions, then going back to the camera to make sure it was still recording, telling dean to keep looking at the chair and not at me when i was moving. When i first asked Dean the questions, he couldn't help himself but laugh as he felt ashamed and he did not know how to answer to some of the questions being asked. I found this frustrating as i wanted to get it over and done with and he was not taking it seriously. When i played it back, i then realised that the microphone was not switched on therefor i had to rewind the tape back to the beginning so that i recorded back over the unwanted recording.

The second time i recorded and asked the questions, dean was sensible and co-operated well to the questions being asked, this time the microphone was switched on. However we then had interruptions in the background, as people outside the room where shouting in at dean asking him questions not knowing i was recording him. He then had to explain to them that we where filming and to not make noises outside the room as it was distracting us. When we finally did the interview, everything was fine and the framing and lighting was correct. All the interruptions we had in the background can be taking out when editing which is not a problem.

This picture was taking of me setting up the camera just before i began filming Dean Carr,s interview.

The forth i took part in was the interview with lee Farragher. Yet again I recorded and Joel asked the questions while Brian supervised and took pictures. As i was recording lee, at first i had to keep rewinding the tape back to the start as he kept laughing and kept answering stupid answers to the questions being asked. When he had calmed down we continued filming and we did not re film. However when i was recording i noticed that Lee was keep going in and out of the eye line as he kept moving around a bit. However we can edit out the bits we do not need if necessary where he happens to move a lot in. Joel took this picture of me as i was preparing the video recorder and the framing just before i began to record.

The voice over script script of our documentary

Opening Title Images play- “Goths, Punks, Scallies,Moshers, all names given to groups of teenagers today, groups in society called subcultures, so what is a subculture?”

Opening Title

Voxpop

“There is a lot of stereotyping of teenagers today, and most teenagers conform to that stereotype because they are part of one of the subculture groups but why do teenagers feel the need to be apart of a group?”

Mr.Quinn Interview

“What do the people who have been stereotyped in the past think?”

Callum McIness interview
Dean Carr Interview
Lee Farragher interview
Lisa Smeadley interview

“So there are people who conform to these subcultures for a feeling of belonging and to give themselves an identity but is peer pressure something that exists in these groups? Take the story of Rhys Jones for example, he was shot and killed by Sean Mercer after he was caught up in a crossfire between two groups, groups that conformed to one of the stereotypes of subculture.”