First draft of radio trailer script

Graffiti: Is it art, vandalism or politcal free speech. HCTV investigates this topic.
Graffiti is often seen as vandalism. (take apart out of the script.)
However graffiti can be seen as art. (take apart out of script.)
(include the last bit of samatha magmey's interview.)
Watch the full documentary on HCTV on the 12th March 2011 7pm.

First draft of newspaper advertisment

Above is my idea for my newspaper article, i thought it had incorporated all the various aspects in the title of our documentary. The shops and the people along side the graffiti being keeping it in touch with reality, but being the people who believe it is vandalism and the people trying to cross over the graffiti are the ones trying make a statement believing that graffiti is art and they are standing up for what they believe in which includes the poltical free speech part. I decided to keep the writing plain and small so that no attention is drawn away from the main image and i thought the deep blue worked well against the lighter, water shade of blue in the image.

Codes and conventions of a newspaper adevertisment

      Images

Clear connotations

A logo

The date and time of the realse

The name of the documentary

Consistency

Typography (font)

Images should be simple and represt the content of the documentary, they should be engaging and presetenting a controdiction. Typography of newspaper advertisments is usually upper case. The writing needs to be clear and easy to read. The name and the date and time of the realse should be very visable. The logo should also be easily seen so that the company is well recognised and this will all create consistency throughout the newspaper advertisement.

Codes and conventions of a radio trailer

One minute in duration

Name  of the radio

Date, time and what radio channel

Featuring

Sample interviews from documentary

A clear voice over

Music

Catchy and exciting

A radio trailer needs to engage the audience in the same way a newspaper advertisement does. It is important to give the right amount of information without giving to much.  The music within the radio trailer should identify with the genre and the topic being discussed within the full documentary. Sample interviews are a good way to get the audience to be more enuthasic about the documentary and it is always a good idea to say about any guest speakers. A clear voice over is essential as the audience need to be able to hear things such as the date and times being said within the radio trailer. All these things help to make the the radio trailer catchy and exciting.

A radio trailer

A documentary

Subject matter research

Everyone has an opipion about graffiti its costs the council thousands of pounds every year to remove it but also in todays society it is modern art. Graffiti is a form of vandalism but people see it as street art that keeps youths away from harder crime. Kieran Dunn, a teenager says 'graffiti is more art than crime. If someone has put that much effort into their piece they can't be doing it just to get somone angry.' Young graffiti artists see graffiti as a form of expression. Due to the anti-social behaviour act in 2003, people can now be punished for graffiting and it is now illegal to sell spray paint to under 16's. However new laws are trying to get the council to build places for young teens to go to, to work on their talent and learn more instead of spraying walls. Graffiti has been around for many years even the Romans wrote on walls. Graffiti started when people first started to put their names on posts however it has fully advanced from then and is now considered a form of art and expression. Graffiti is images or lettering that is scratched, scrawled, painted or sprayed in any piece of property some see it as art but most see it as unwanted damage. When researching graffiti online you can hire out graffiti artists. They spray for live art events, TV shows, video shoots, bedrooms, private functions and much more. There are different sections within graffiti, such as traditional graffiti, photorealism, wildlife/nature graffiti, stencil art, organic graffiti, marker pen art, scences and abstract graffiti. Many big companies such as microsoft, diesel, BBC, paramount, red bull, virign, and kiss sponser there graffiti artists. The ED Hardy store paid a graffiti company to graffiti the walls in its store creating the right atmosphere, 'their ability to take ED Hardy's orginal designs and replicate it flawlessly was astounding! We could be more happy with the outocme.' - Says John V- ED Hardy founder.

Second documentary analysis

A cutaway of a fingerprint is used cleverly here as the documentary is about serial killers. This a good technique as the audience have an idea about the documentary before it have even started.  

What was interesting about this documentary was that the interviewees pictures came up with there names next to them before their interview was played. This breaking common documentary codes but it works well for the documentary.

This cutaway is fantastic it is a recording of someone getting kidnapped, it fits in completely to the documentaries topic and is very captivating for the audience. 

Although with this interview the name is featured at the side of the interviewee whilst the interview is playing. This is the common set up of a documentary and what we will be basing our documentary on. 

Texted is used in the documentary it makes a statement as the reader is expecting to see more cutaways and further interviewees it makes a change in the documentary.

Old photographs of serial killers and reinactments are used within the documentary they work well as they aim to show the audience what it was like for the victims and to give them a further insight into what went on. 

A fade is used in the documentary it is a transition that is probably the most common. It signifies that something new is about to be spoken about, it add an entertaining factor.

A pan is used when focusing on the house in the print screen above the music changes to an eery tone and the pan goes slowly from the left side to the right side of the house at this part of the documentary, hey are talking about a serial killer and this was where they were said to have lived.  

First documentary analysis

This documentary is on fashion show plus sizes. The style of the documentary is formal, with a narrator and interviews.

This transition was used right at the start of the documentary. The blur is used just before me meet the main speaker of the documentary, it blurs from a young women dressed smarlty to the speaker. It sets the tone for the start of the documentary.

A prop is used early on in the documentary. The prop is a microphone it suggests to the audience that they are watching a documentary and that perhaps there will be interviews later on in the documentary however i do think i would have looked better if the main speaker was wearing a microphone rather than holding one. 

Three shots are placed side by side here, it backs up what is being said in the documentary at the time by the narrator. It is empahzing the point that plus woman can be models too.

A zoom is used in the documentary to add and create effect, also later we find out that the woman who had been zoomed in on is the woman being interviewed so this was done to start a building point in the viewers mind just before the interview. 

In the picture above you can clearly see the differences in costume between the model and the narrotor of the documentary. The model is wearing a nice dress and she looks like she just stepped off the catwalk and the narrator is just in smart/casual clothing. 

Lighting is used here jsut behind the models to emphasis them as they first step out on to the catwalk looking lovely.

The main speaker, talks in a formal tone with a light hearted warm feel. She uses standard English and precieved pronunciation. Also this is the perfect way to frame an interview and the interviewee is also talking in a formal tone.

The logo for the documentary comes up at the end of it, the colour scheme is blue and white. There are pulsing graffics behind the logo (BBC radio) and the font is big and bold with capital letters for the words 'newsbeat.'

Documentary Proposal

“ Is graffiti an expression of art or just another form of vandalism?”

 In this topic, we plan to explore the very controversial idea of graffiti, and whether it seen as an artist portraying a message through the expression of art or just seen as vandalism of the streets in London today.

We will look at both, for positive arguments of graffiti and the negative argument as well. And look at both perspectives of the too sides.

A source shows that it’s a common view that graffiti is frowned upon in society. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1637000/1637333.stm)

“Graffiti is disgusting and gets people into bad habits, wherever people find a blank space they scribble all over it.”

Although there are many schemes and project that have been set up to remove graffiti. People still show hostility towards it.

Project’s like ‘orange rock corps’ have been set up to remove graffiti, and because it nation wide it covers a wide regional area and these projects have been strongly backed by the government.

In order to finding conclusion to the debate that is graffiti, we will be interviewing people that support graffiti and people that don’t mind it, as well as people who are strongly against graffiti. We also believe that there no better way to see how the artist themselves feel about it so will we also interviewing them and finding there perspectives on what they do. We also intend to interview some public figures to show what they feel about the graffiti. Additionally, we will speak to other general members of the public that hold their own and find out whether they feel the media influences these ideas.

We plan to have cut-always of piece of art that have been produced as well as people doing graffiti. As well as these we plan to show the length that people go through just to “get up” (graffiti) photo’s of black books (Were people design there pieces of work before they put paint to wall)

For a list of speakers I would like to interview 2 graffiti artist’s (one that’s big, and a up and coming one). I would also like to interview people that work on the projects at orange rock corps. As well interviewing companies that remove graffiti them selves, some people that are the general public and authority figures that deal with graffiti.

For this our group roles are:

Philip – Editor

Sustika – Sound

Anju – Camera works
Lauren - Director 

Group role and production brief

My group and i decided on our roles easily and quickly. I asked if anyone would mind if i was the director as i did that last year and felt that that is where i could work to my best abililty. The group did not have a problem with that so for my A2 media coursework this year i will be the director. I understand that my role is to make sure everything is working well, the filming, editing and research and to make sure that everyone is happy and getting along as a group. I will be a big part of the decision making and the paper work side of the courseowrk. Sustika decided to be the sound person. Anju decided to be the camera person and Phillip was happy to be the editor. We have been asked to work in a group to create a documentary on any chosen topic. Within the documentary interviews are expected so we will be conducting interviews throughout the coursework that are relevant to our topic. Also we have been asked to create a blog which contains a number of things that will help with the planning and research into the documentary and our topic. Along with a personal blog that will contain our ancillary tasks and evaluation of the coursework. The ancillary tasks are a newspaper advertisement and a radio trailer that will both promote our documentary. We came up with a lot of different topics before coming to an untied decision within the group.  We chose to do graffiti as our topic as we felt it was a controversial topic that we could take to many different directions also it is a topic that not many others have explored so it was not an obvious subject and was something new for us to do.