Production: Documentary Audio Fade

I wasn't happy with how when I inserted one of my interviews the audio seemed very jumpy as he started talking. To counter this I wanted it to slightly fade in terms of volume. In order to do this I found a tutorial and then used the effects tab in premier pro to apply a constant power audio crossfade transition and then made it shorter so that the volume increased quicker. 

Planning: Final Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment by George Crocombe on Scribd

Production: Ancillary V2 Changes

After asking a member of my focus group for feedback I went back into inDesign and made the changes they recommended. I removed the colon after the name of the documentary as it is not necessary and doesn't match convention.  

I then exported it again with the changes made. 

Audience feedback: Ancillary Poster V2

I asked a member of my focus group for feedback for any little changes I could make to my second production of my Ancillary poster and this is the feedback I received. 

Chris seemed to love the piece in general. The only piece of criticism he gave was to remove the colons after the title fighting for first as they don't follow conventions of other media products. 

Audience Feedback: Questionnaire

I asked for feedback to see if people thought that my narrative structure was good and interesting. Every single person that answered my questionnaire agreed that it is a good idea and very interesting and engaging. This tells me that my documentary has a strong narrative structure and will be appealing to the target demographic. 

I also wanted to find out  if people liked the name of my documentary. In order to ensure the answers are legitimate I asked the question by asking which name people preferred as I felt if I just asked if they like the name people would be tempted to just say yes, so by doing this I will get more accurate feedback. Regardless of this my results still show the name of my documentary is the most popular receiving all but 3 of the votes.  

As the quality of footage is very important to a successful piece I wanted to ensure that the audience thought the footage is of a high resolution. 100% of the people I asked answered yes, meaning the equipment I used is good enough and I don't need to improve anything. 

Having an appropriate target audience is important to ensure that the product is being produced to meet the expectations and need that these people will have from a documentary. The general answer was younger people from older teens till about 30, and mainly males as all of my footage shows male cycling and doesn't represent women. 

Following codes and conventions is an important aspect to creating a piece as this allows the audience to recognise the product. 94% of people agreed that my product did this.

From my questionnaire I can see that my first ancillary product poster is by far the most popular. Due to this I will go with what people like the best and use this as my final product. 

My posters must follow conventions of real products to allow them to easily be identified. 100% of people agreed that they did this successfully meaning that they will be easily seen as fit for the purpose by all people. 

Brand identity is very important, this is created by all products sharing similar features and due to this clearly relating to each other. All of the people in my questionnaire agreed that my poster relates to my documentary meaning I have a strong sense of brand identity and it will be clear that the poster is advertising my documentary. 

Production: Ancillary Poster V2

After producing my first set of ancillary products I decided that I was not happy with the images that I had used as the resolution was less than desirable. This was due to the images being screenshots from my footage. I did this to ensure that they gave an accurate representation of what will be in the documentary and be extremely relevant, this did however mean the images where rather pixelated. Due to this I searched through all of the images I have from previous races and found an image that I liked. It shows my actor in a previous race in his kit, which he is also wearing in my footage and at a venue that is also included in my footage.

In addition to this the image is more visually pleasing as he is coming towards the camera and is obviously at the top of a hill. This adds to the narrative. In both of my other images he isn't facing the camera and is riding away.