Documentary: Phobaphobia

This is the finished media product, "Phobaphobia".

Radio Advertisement

Poster Advertisement

This is the finished print advertisement.

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The video above is just an example of what verbal comments were received.
Putting our finished documentary on social websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc., enabled a vast majority of an audience to view it, in particularly, teenagers. Because the documentary is aimed at people aged 16 and onwards, this was helpful in targeting if it engaged them or not like intended. Here are the some of the comments received via comments:
"This is good and quite interesting, there could of been better cutaways than what was used and graphics that are clearer to read."
"Editing flows but the intercutting didn't really balance out any side of a true, balanced argument. 6/10."
"Too many interviews, needs more cutaways and shots on location rather than in college."
From this, it can be improved upon the usage of cutwaways, graphics, interviews, and where they are placed/filmed if the media product was to be done again.
As well as showing the audience the documentary, the ancillary texts alongside such as the print and radio advertisement was thought to be linked. Here are some more comments when they were shown all:
"The colour purple adds to the theme of the poster and the documentary."
"The radio ad included some of the vox-pops and interviews from the documentary that made it recognisable. Although, it didn't really fit in what was said."
"I thought the radio advert wasn't clear enough but the print advert looks relevant and interesting."
This audience feedback allowed us to spot the mistakes made and alter them accordingly to what the audience want to see/hear in order to engage them at the fullest. The fact that they thought they linked showed that we had followed the codes and conventions correctly.
Two questionnaires were constructed and filled out by the audience, this was the basis of the media product and how the outcome relied/reflected on those answers. For example, most people favourited the colour purple to be the text colour of the graphics which is what they thought was suitable towards the subject matter of phobias, so that said colours was used. Overall, the audience feedback was a reliable source.

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