Final Main Task

Here is my final Documentary: 

https://youtu.be/TUHKhqPr89I

Final Ancillary Task 2

Here is my final newspaper advert:

The layout was inspired by articles that Channel 4 often publish in newspapers - a simplistic approach of an image with grey boxes of text along with a grey Channel 4 logo in the same colour. 

To create this, I referred to this document. I made sure that I used a colour from their colour palette and a font similar to the Channel 4 font. 

Final Ancillary Task 1

Here is my double page spread for a listings magazine:

I decided to use the same background as my newspaper advert as using a plain white background made the double-page too simple and disconnected in terms of the documentary. 

Ancillary Task 2 Screenshots

Here is my Powerpoint with the Ancillary Task 2 Screenshots, uploaded to Slideshare

Ancillary Task 1 Screenshots

Here is my PowerPoint with the screenshots for my 1st Ancillary Task, uploaded to SlideShare:

Editing Screenshots

Here is my PowerPoint that I uploaded to SlideShare 

Editing Screenshots from AbbiejoanWilson

Editing Diary 8

After gathering photos from the HMV All Time Low signing that Billie attended, I began to place these photographs in the end section of concert footage of Frnkiero And The Cellabration. Doing this allowed for my final section of the first 5 minutes to be less out of place. I also shortened this section of concert footage along with my introduction. 

Production Diary 15

Today I finished my Newspaper advert. For the logo and box colour, I used a colour that Channel 4 use - I found the colours that they use from the booklet on their website. For my background, I decided to use a photograph of a pile of CDs, in order to relate to my documentary about music fans. I used the font Garamond for this - a font that I used in my double-page spread article. I would have used the font that Channel 4 use, however the font isn't available to download. 

Production Diary 14

Today I started my second ancillary task: a newspaper advert. For this I took inspiration from channel 4 newspaper articles - as my documentary is for channel 4- and their simplistic but effective layout. 

Magazine Article

Here is my article: 

            Channel 4’s eye-opening documentary, produced by AW Films, follows the lives of five teenagers with a common interest of music. Inspired by Music Nation, a series of documentaries celebrating the glory days of the UK’s underground music scene over the last 25 years, Road to Acceptance highlights the hardships for British Teenagers when identifying with certain music sub-cultures.

            With the growing widespread popularity of Social-Media sites such as Twitter and Tumblr and Media influence,  comes the increase of cyberbullying and negative stereotyping, particularly targeting fans of small sub-genres of music such as “Emo” and “Punk”, whilst also being targeted are fans of award-winning boyband One Direction. 

            Not only does the documentary introduce us to the five teenagers, Billie, Mikey, Hannah, James, and Sonja, but to their lifestyles revolving around their musical preferences. Whilst Sonja follows the lifestyle of a 1970’s Punk, Billie faces the hardships of dealing with the cyberbullying from identifying as an Emo. In contrast, Hannah the “Directioner” struggles with getting people to take her seriously as a 17 year old One Direction fan.

            Meeting the friends and family members of the teenagers gives an insight into how music has had the ability to change someone’s personality  and what affect it can have on close relationships.  

            As an audience, the documentary makes you question how and why we judge people based on the way they look, creating awareness of the  damage that the media can have on people that belong to a certain social group.

            One of the leading issues discussed in the documentary is how the Media has influenced  the opinions of the public through  fabricated and exaggerated news stories. One instanct that Emo girl Billie discussed is how the Emo communities reputation was harmed after The Daily Mail blamed the band “My Chemical Romance”- among the most popular in the Emo sub-genre for a teenage girl’s suicide.

Billie discusses how the articles written about the band tarred the reputation of the sub-genre, and is one of the reasons why the term “Emo” is so stigmatized. Mother of Billie, Dot, also discussed how reading those articles worried her.

“Obviously I was f***ing worried, as a Mam”

Watch Road to Acceptance on Thursday 14th May, Channel 4   to  learn more about the five teenagers’ stories  and hear what those closest to them really think about their love for music.

It’s a show that will open your eyes! 

Production Diary 13

Today I finished my first Ancillary task. For it, I used a four column article with the text wrapped around an Image of Billie - I used an image of her that was used in the documentary for continuity. Additionally, I decided on the documentary title which is: Road to Acceptance. I chose this title because it is a song by Green Day which included the lyric "We're all the same" which i felt was fitting for the article title of the documentary. Additionally, the documentary is about teenage music fans who are stereotyped and not taken seriously because of the music they listen to - the documentary is created to subvert the typical negative stereotypes. 

Production Diary 12

Today I started creating my first ancillary task of  a double page spread from a listings magazine. Originally, when creating my Flat Plans I wanted the layout to be similar to that of the article "The Boys from Brazil" that I had deconstructed. However, when creating the layout in indesign this proved difficult. Additionally, with the documentary only being the first 5 minutes of a documentary, I wasn't able to create this layout as only one of the five music fans that would have been in the full documentary is actually in the first 5 minutes created. 

Because of this, I decided to base my article off of "The Five Faces of Bowie" and "The Story of Now" articles.

Doing this, I decided to use a simple white background - like both inspiration articles used. 

Editing Diary 7

This week I have been editing the re-filmed footage and the footage of Billie's Mam and younger sister. Because of the audio problem with the last filming session, I bought a new tie-clip microphone to avoid any more audio issues. When editing, I found that this microphone was fairly quiet, however I rectified this by simple increasing the volume of the audio.