Evaluation

My documentary Binge Britain:Brighton is about the effects that binge drinking has on more than just the consumer. Examples include:

• Emergency services
• Societies

This was the purpose because once we had chosen are final idea we watched several documentaries that are about alcohol and are shown on BBC THREE. We did this so that we would be aware of:

• Opening credits
• Types of shots
• Framing
• Camera technique
• Editing techniques
• Voice over narration
• Use of archive footage
• Reconstructions

The documentaries that we watched included:

• Sun... sex and suspicious parents          BBC THREE
• Cherry goes drinking          BBC THREE

The conventions that the above documentaries use are:

• In both above documentaries the opening credits are made specific to the documentary and at some point have the title appear. 
• The types of shots that are used in the above documentaries include:
• Tracking
• Panning
• Mid shots
• Close ups
• Establishing shots
• Some of the ways the documentaries above used editing:
• To overlap voice overs and footage
• Cut between shots from different angles
• Change the meaning of the footage
• Only the Cherry goes drinking documentary used archive footage in it. This is because it helped to emphasise the message

Ways that my documentary, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real documentaries

Above are the conventions of the topic of documentary that matches ours. The conventions that ours uses are:

• Opening credits
• Types of shots
• Framing
• Camera technique
• Editing techniques
• Voice over narration
• Use of archive footage
• Reconstructions

Our documentary has opening credits. This is because our documentary is one that will be broadcasted regularly as a series but every episode will be in a different city in Britain.

The types of shots that our documentary used include:

• Mid shots
• Tracking
• Panning 

We had a very innovative technique to doing the tracking shots as well as the tracking and then panning shots because we did not have the necessary equipment for doing tracking shots normally. The innovative technique involved using a tripod and a trolley. We used a trolley so that we could move the camera with the shot still being steady.

 Also when we thought about the framing of the shots we had to ensure that there wasn't any objects or anything else that would make the shots and in turn the documentary look amateur.

When we had all of our footage we edited the lengths of the footage so that it wouldn't be to long and boring and so that no unwanted narrative or content was included. we also in several parts detached the audio and had the interviews cut to footage that was being described. The below example shows before the cut and after the cut to the reconstruction.

A way that we developed the conventions was by including a reconstruction. The bottom image above this is a still from the reconstruction.

The effectiveness of the combination of my documentary and the ancillary tasks

In general one of the things people associate with alcohol is night, because of this I ensured that both ancillary tasks where took and that the images used where not bright and obvious to what they are. As I have ensured that the ancillary tasks fit the topic of the documentary and the purpose I believe that the combination is very effective. Below at the top is the Poster and at the bottom is the Double Page Spread.

Things that I have learned from our audience feedback

Since finishing the documentary we have put it on YouTube and on Facebook. The feedback that we got included:

• Gives a good view on the effects on the society and services
• Not bad for amateurs
• Nice video. Very well mad :D
• Awesome video

From the feedback from our audience I have learn't that our documentary would be successful as I didn't get any criticism on anything that other people would change if they where to create one similar the ours.

Ways that we used new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages

For the research before the documentary I used several new media technologies. Examples include:

• New websites
• Blogs

I used news websites as they show all of the stories that each news corporation has covered. The news stories that I used where about:

• Bad statistics and binge drinking          BBC NEWS
• Binge drinking costing billions          BBC NEWS
• Binge drinking raises cancer risk          BBC NEWS
• Polish photographer documents four years of drunken revelry in Cardiff          THE TELEGRAPH

Also all stories that new corporations are reliable due to not being able to print anything that they have proven to be true.

I also used blogs when researching so that I could get ordinary and experts opinions on why binge drinking is such a problem.

When planning our documentary we didn't use any new media technologies as we where required to sketch out the storyboard and ancillary tasks by hand. However, we did use Microsoft Word to create our:

• Shot lists
• Scripts

During the construction of our documentary we used iMovie on Apple Mac computers. This allowed us to move the different scenes around whilst adding sound and music. It also allowed us to record narration while watching the scenes and then add transitions between the scenes so that they would not jump too much.

For the evaluation of the documentary and ancillary tasks I used blogspot to show all of the work that I have created. I used blogspot as blogs as it is being used by the media now as a less formal way of getting opinions on what they are doing.