The First Supporting Piece

For the first supporting piece, we thought that we should produce a simplistic design with a bottle of Reggae Reggae Sauce. On the bottle it is split into three sections, red, green and yellow. We thought we would edit these sections allowing us to put the name of the documentary on the top section, a brief description on the middle section and a date, time and channel on the bottom section of the bottle.

I started by taking a picture of the bottle with a white background and then myself and Lauren started to edit the photo using Photoshop. Below are a few screen shots of our first attempt at creating the first supporting piece. If you cannot see the images clearly then please click on the image to enlarge.

Researching Billboards

Here is a simple poster which is still effective that we came accoss whilst we were researching billboards:






























Here are some of the points we liked about this billboard:

• Easy and clear to read and understand
• Play on words used
• very simple design, with white background
• Font colour contrasts with the crisp white background

Supporting Pieces

We thought that it would be best to make a start on our supporting pieces and therefore started researching and planning various posters and billboards for our advertising campaign. We wanted something simple yet effective for one of the billboards.

Documentary Feedback

The overall feedback recieved about our documentary was very positive. Although the majority of the documentary is good, Lauren and myself are not happy about the voiceovers used at the beginning and the end of the documentary as we thought they were too quiet. Therefore we have decided to re-do the two voiceovers to make sure we are thoroughly content with the quality of our work.

Final Documentary

Our final documentary piece, including all of our edited sequences is shown below.

Permission to film in Tesco...

We wanted to film our next sequence at a supermarket and there is a large Tesco in Brooklands, Surrey. I popped in to ask who I need to speak with in order to gain permission to film. I was told to contact the store manager via e-mail and I sent him the following e-mail

Dear Chris,

We are a group of two A-Level students, currently studying Media Studies at Heathside Sixth Form College. As part of the majority of our A2 grade, we are required to construct a short documentary of our choice. Our documentary is about the success of entrepreneur, Levi Roots and after being given the chance to interview him, we are hoping to film a short sequence at Brooklands Tesco next to his sauces. With your approval it would increase our Media Studies A2 Portfolio grade and give us an overall, higher grade to aim for.

There is no budget for this filming sequence, as it is just a coursework project. The footage taken will solely be used for educational purposes and may also be featured on our media studies blogs, which you may feel free to visit at www.achoudhurydocumentary.blogspot.com or alternatively, you may ask our media teacher to find out more, via e-mail at the following the e-mail address, amichael@heathside.surrey.sch.uk.

Please let us know if it would be possible to film this sequence and we look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Amir Choudhury and Lauren Berridge

(A-Level Students)

Unfortunately we received no reply so I decided to pop in again and see if I could talk to him in person. I was very anxious to film in Tesco and Tesco is a two minute walk away from my house so I was very flexible in terms of popping in and asking for the manager. I popped in to find the head of security (Darren) who said he is able to give me permission to film after phoning and confirming it with the store manager. He said we were more than welcome to film at any time before 10pm. We decided to film our sequence a few days after gaining permission so we were able to execute a plan and create a storyboard. Here are some shots from Tesco...

Editing the footage..

To edit our footage from the interview, we had decided to use Microsoft Windows Movie Maker and VideoPad Video Editor which is a product of NCH Software. Both of these programs are designed to be used with Windows and as Myself and Lauren both own windows laptops, it made it more east and convenient for us to use these video editing programs. As well as being quick, easy and convenient to use, these programs are helping us achieve fantastic results.

Here are some screen shots of us using the software for our documentary: