During the planning stages of this documentary we came up with some different ideas on how we would like to convey this one was to get several different interviews with vegans and health experts, another was to do only video diaries, in the end we decided to go the proactive route and have one of us become vegan and use video diaries to track how it effects us while also including interviews with health specialists.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our documentary follows the media conventions of a typical investigative documentary such as using interviews and video diaries, as seen in these images we used typical name plates and interview styles, we also placed the name of the day at the top of each video diary.
I believe that my ancillary tasks link into the documentary perfectly as they both convey what we are trying to show, the double page spread has a nice interview with the film maker while including pictures of the cast and main character holding the contrasts of a burger and a stick of celery, my poster is just one lone object, that being a chicken bucket filled with fruit that conveys the message we are trying to get across which is a meat eater suddenly becoming vegan for an extended period and how different these 2 things are. In both our ancillary tasks it is clear what we are trying to advertise and when the show shall air and what channel it will be on, they are simple to read with the poster containing little writing and just one picture to impact the viewer.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
To gather our audience feedback we uploaded our documentary onto YouTube and Facebook to see what our audience thinks about it, the feedback was overall positive with one saying that it could easily be on BBC Three, but we also learned that we could have done more as there was demand for the documentary to continue as most of the comments wandered "what happened next?"
We used multiple new media technologies to help us edit and complete our documentary and ancillary tasks, we started with the internet and computers using them to aid us in the planning and research aspect of the documentary, we only used one camera and a tripod to do the filming as it was all we needed. We also used lots of different software such as iMovie and Adobe Photoshop to do the editing and design of our documentary and ancillary tasks respectively, these technologies were very important when it came to editing as without it we wouldn't have been able to create our documentary to such a high standard.
