MEDIA STUDIESA LEVEL ADVNCED PORTFOLIO

DOCUMENTARY PACKAGE

MADE BY: MEHREEN NAEEM

How does your product use or challenges the conventions of other documentaries?

Camera Angles:• Most of my camera angles were

similar to those present in documentaries.

• But, majority of the angles were WIDE SHOT and MID SHOT.

This product is the documentary showing you and telling about CHILD LABOUR. It emphasizes on the current situation of our society where children are made to do work at a very small age.One thing I realized about my product is that, it is the combination of two different time of documentaries, observational and expository. When it comes to observational,

the conventions I followed are:• It have short interviews• There is a use of actual recording-

real events• The background sound is

synchronous• There is a use of natural

lightening, throughout.

And when it comes to conventions for expository documentary, they are:

• Use of voice over• Use of images,

text and titles• Editing

How does your product engage with audiences and would it be distributed as a real media text?

The target audience for my product is the general audience and with this documentary it is able to engage with the audience by showing them and make them aware of the current situation of our society.They will get to see that what these small children are made to do at such a small age.They might then start to raise their voice against child labour and try to finish it. Also through this product the audience will get to know the real value of money and education and they might start to value it.And lastly, the NGO’s will engage with this documentary by helping these children by not letting them do such hard work and provide with some education.

How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of branding?

My poster and website work together in the sense that they both bring out two colors of our flag. (green and white)The images added are same in 3 of them, the short write-ups and the taglines are same. This is how it will bring a sense of branding for the viewer.

How did your production skills developed throughout this project?

Throughout this project, I got to experience the pressure of filming a documentary.The reason I came up with the idea to make a documentary on child labour was seeing small children working on streets because of the pressure of earning money. They are basically hired and forced by the rich landlords to work.For my documentary, I did not require a storyboard but I still had to organize certain things. I decided to shoot in my own city where child labour is often seen regularly.For instance, the editing part was a bit struggle but then would ask my fellows and obviously my teacher who have been very helpful throughout.My main struggle was to put subtitles because of the time lapse it required but this just taught me to be patient. But all in all a skill I developed was to do great editing because that’s all matters.

BLLOGGER:Using Blog for uploading my coursework is very advantageous as compared to working on handwritten A4 folder. This way I can edit my work without any difficulty and easily improve the quality of my work. Similarly, if I am working in a group then we can have a more creative, collaborative approach.

I have learnt a lot from my teacher. He helped us in learning how to use the camera with different angles and the tripod stand.TRIPOD STAND:A tripod is a portable three-legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. Tripods are used for both motion and still photography to prevent camera movement and provide stability. In the same way, they reduce camera shake, and thus are instrumental in achieving maximum sharpness. A tripod is also helpful in achieving precise framing of the image. I have now easily learn how to work with tripod stand accurately.

CAMERA:A camera is an optical instrument that records images that can be stored directly, transmitted to another location, or both. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies.I use Canon DSLR 600D. its very easy to use it. I can now work on different camera angles and take different shots.

CAMERA ANGLES/SHOTS:There are various types of camera angles and shots. Out of which almost all are now on my fingertips. Some shots include: MID SHOT, EXTREME CLOSEUP, OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT, CLOSEUP and more.

EXTREME WIDE SHOT

CLOSE-UP

WIDE SHOT

How did you integrate technologies- SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND ONLINE- in this project?

1. SOFTWAREI used movie maker for my video editing and Microsoft wondershare too.Moreover, I used Microsoft PowerPoint for this presentation. I downloaded sound for the background music from internet.

2. HARDWAREThe image beside shows the hardware used for this project; the camera and those two different lenses which were used to take pictures and make videos required for the project.The laptop was used to store the footage, to edit, to come up with the final product. And it was also used to make my poster and website.I even used tripod stand to avoid any hurdle movements and avoid the camera from shaking.

3. ONLINEFor this project I used WIX.COM to create my webpage, who’s purpose is to sell the documentary. Which is brought out by the information. I wanted it to be fun so I added many images.I use TUMBLR to blog which was used to upload my project so that people can see and know about the steps I took to come up with the final project.

Webpage link: sananaeem1233.wix.com/mysite

PROBLEMS I EXPERIENCED WHILE MAKING THIS PROJECT?

Like anything in life, we do experience hurdles and a few bumps; so similarly for this project I had experienced a couple of problems. For instance:The Wi-Fi was being shifty always, so

blogging and creating my webpage at home was a bit difficult and also because it was the first time I made.

And last, my movie editing software was so slow that at times it would stop working or hangs up while editing is in process.

THANKYOU!