Production

This is the first cut of our documentary:

We decided some changes needed to be made as the sound quality for the interview with Simon Ashdown was unfortunately not very clear. We also thought that the use of Simon Ashdown's picture displayed on the screen throughout the interview looked unprofessional.

This is our second cut of our documentary:

We tackled the issue of poor sound quality in the Simon Ashdown interview by adding in subtitles, so that the audience can easily understand what is being said. However, we thought that having the subtitles on a black screen looked too dull.

This is our third cut of our documentary:

We decided to use clips from EastEnders (a TV show that Simon Ashdown has written for) when interviewing Mr Ashdown in order to show the audience examples of violence in the media. We noticed however that our documentary was too long so we needed to cut down some of the interviews.

This is the fourth cut of our documentary:

We cut down the interview with Sarah Bowen as we felt that some of what she was saying had already been covered in the interview with Louise Anstead, this also enabled us to make our documentary fit the requirements time wise. 

We noticed that although the voice over introduced Simon Ashdown and explained who he was, there was no indication of his name and title on screen, whereas for all of the other interviews there was. This was therefore something we made sure we added in for the final documentary.

This is our final documentary cut:

We were really pleased with our final documentary as it conforms with the usual style of an expository documentary, by using the typical conventions such as: interviews, a voice over, facts, statistics, archive footage, and processionals views. We are happy that our documentary appears professional due to our use of a variety of camera angles and movements, along with our creative yet smooth editing. We believe that our documentary is appealing to our target audience of both teenagers and adults, due to our young sounding voice over, the range of people interviewed, the range of opinions, and the expository content of the documentary.

Overall we were really pleased with our documentary, however if we were to do it again I would choose to improve the mise-en-scene in the interview with psychology teacher Mrs Bolson. Unfortunately when we interviewed Mrs Bolson she was wearing casual gym clothes, and was not in her place of work, however if I could do it again I would have ensured that Mrs Bolson was wearing her usual formal clothing and was in her office (so the audience could see her in her usual professional working environment). This would alter the interview style from casual to formal, which would therefore be a big improvement as formal interviews are a typical convention of a documentary.