Production: Ancillary Posters V1

After asking my focus group which image they prefer I used two of my images which they identified as their favourites to produce a final piece for each. I will then change elements on the posters and gain audience feedback on the final pieces and decide on an end product. 

Production: Ancillary Poster Pt1

I added my chosen font and text: "Fighting for First, New Documentary, Starts tonight 10pm" On top of a white box in my chosen carefully researched and downloaded font. At the moment I have decided to keep the colours plain and simple, I will soon try some different variants. I can now add this to my other images to see which one works best and gain some audience feedback and see which variant my focus group like best. 

Production: Ancillary Poster Image Editing

I wasn't happy with the colours or exposure of one of my images so I decided to improve the quality of it in Adobe Lightroom. I slightly decreased the exposure to make the image less bright,  I then upped the contrast to make the colours pop more. I also played about with the Highlights and Shadows until I was happy with how they where exposed before changing the Whites and Blacks. I also bumped up the Clarity as I like the way it adds a dirty look and I feel this is suitable to the image as it shows grit and determination. 

 

Production: Channel 4 Font

I had a look on a variety of websites and it has come to my attention that many people have had a similar problem to what I have encountered. However I found a page that recommended a font supposedly similar to the channel 4 font so I found a website to download it and installed it on my mac. 

The Font recommended is: Etelka Pro. I found a variety of styles of the same font that I will be able to use for different parts of the product. 

 

Audience Feedback: Images for Ancillary Poster

I asked 2 members from my focus group which of my 4 chosen images they preferred. They both gave different responses so I will focus on these two images. I will still however, make an example for all 4 images then get feedback on what they prefer as a finished product.  

Production: Ancillary Poster Images

After searching through all my images and footage I have narrowed it down to 4 best potential images to be used for my Ancillary Poster. These images are as follows: 

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I will use all of these images to produce an example of an ancillary product and decide upon the best one with the help of my focus group to give audience feedback. 

Production: First Edit

Production: Adobe Media Encoder

Another programme I have used is Adobe Media encoder. I used this to export my videos from Premier Pro as this allows me to choose all of the export settings. I can choose the frame rate along with the resolution etc. 

Planning: Storyboard

Observation: Micro Elements

In my interviews I have included very specific costumes in order to show the generic conventions of a cyclist to make him easily recognisable. I asked my model to wear a Castelli top (which is a well known cycling brand) and specific bottoms along with other extra items such as helmet and gloves.

I also filmed the interviews at a cycling specific location in order to add to this to keep it authentic. 

Production: Logo overlay

In order to overlay the channel 4 in my documentary I found an image of it online. This was a JPEG with a white background which I wanted to remove. In order to do this I opened the image in photoshop on a transparent canvas and used to magic want tool to remove the background and then exported it as a PNG file to keep the transparent background.

I will also be able to overlay this image on my ancillary products. 

Production: Archive footage

I have gone on youtube to get some archive footage of the olympics to help add to my narrative. I found a clip that I found relevant and used Quick time player to record a section of it from which I will pick and choose what specific small parts I want to use by cropping and cutting it in Premier Pro.