Evaluation

Documentary Evaluation

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Combination of main task and ancillary tasks

Overall my ancillary tasks and main task link really well. The theme is clearly represented through the newspaper advert, double page magazine spread and main task. I kept the colour scheme of red, yellow and white through out as it represents typical fast food restaurant colours. Even for our documentary we used white text. For both ancillary tasks I used the same font to show that they are linked and show they are advertising the same documentary. The images of the fast food in both ancillary tasks are the same objects that we used in our documentary. In the documentary we incorporated different fast food, mainly from McDonalds. We then photographed them and used them in our ancillary tasks. I also incorporated dialogue from our documentary in to the ancillary tasks, which were mainly facts on fast food. This gives the viewers an insight in to what is in the documentary. Also in the double page magazine spread we incorporated a section of the interview with Debra Brown from our documentary, which again gives viewers an insight in to the documentary.           

Audience Feedback

We asked a variety of people to watch our documentary and give their feedback and opinions on it. The audience feedback is really important as it allows us to see the most successful parts of our documentary and parts we could have improved on.

Improvements which the audience suggested:

• 'Compare more kids meals from different restaurants' - We could have looked at the children's meals from other popular fast food chains like KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.
• 'Could have had shots of children eating fast food in restaurants' - This is something we tried to capture, however due to legal reasons we were unable to film inside a fast food restaurant.
•   'One of the scenes had background noise from a van, so you could'nt hear the voices as well' - Unfortunately we were filming in a busy town as this is where the fast food chains were located, so we had background noise from vehicles and pedestrian's.
• 'More variety with the archive footage' - We could have included other archive footage instead of it all being quite similar.

Successful parts of our documentary suggested by the audience:

• 'All the music related to what you were talking about'
• 'Some humorous music, makes it more light-hearted'
• 'Engaging, and you could enjoy what you were watching'
• 'Interesting'
• 'Very informative and interesting'
• 'You (documentary makers) were in quite a few scenes which made it more engaging'
• 'Music was really good as it was to do with the topic'
• 'Statistics were used which made it suitable for adults and parents'
• 'Aimed for older audience and parents'

Overall we were really happy with the feedback given to us by the audience. The successful feedback is all the factors we were trying to cover through our documentary, including making it engaging and informative. The improvements suggested have helped us realise mistakes we could have improved on.

Word cloud for audience feedback

Final Documentary

This is our final documentary which we also published on to YouTube.

Editing

For the editing process we used imovie on an Apple Macbook as it is simple to use and it has a variety of different ways to edit a movie, using transitions, text, images and music. Although we worked well on imovie, it did not allow us to create a split screen which is something we were originally planning on doing.

Music:
For our documentary we tried to to find music which related well to our theme. We used Youtube to find the music for our documentary. We chose the 'Fast Food Song' to go at the beginning of our documentary so it was clear to the audience the theme of the documentary, we then used another part of this song half way through our documentary. It is quite humorous so gives a slight light-hearted effect to the documentary. We used a song from the film 'Oliver Twist', called 'Food, Glorious Food', at the end of our documentary before the advert break would start. We thought these two choices of songs work well with our documentary as they both include lyrics about food. We used two other instrumental songs including 'Shelter' and 'Skinny Love' by Birdy, which we used while filming people walking in and out of the fast food restaurant and when we looked inside the childrens Mcdonald's Happy Meal.  

Transitions:
We used a variety of transitions throughout our documentary including fades, wipes and dissolves. The transitions allowed our documentary to run smoothly. This is a screen shot of our documentary during the editing process, showing all the transitions we included.

Voiceovers:

This voiceover was over the top of the scenes where the people are walking in
and out of the restaurant. It invloves one of the documentary makers talking
about fast food and obesity facts.

In our documentary we used two main voiceovers, both 'voice of God'.

This voiceover is placed over the top of the images of fast food chains. The
documentary maker spoke about how there is lots of fast food chains
available and the impact its having. The voices relate to the visuals.  

Text:

We used text at the beginning of our documentary which includes the title. We made it so it would scroll upwards with the screen as we thought this created an exciting effect. We also used text at the bottom of the screen when we were doing interviews, to show the interviewee's name and occupation. While the people were walking in and out of the fast food restaurant we put facts on the screen so the visuals match the voiceover. Again we used the scrolling effect on a question which we put around half way in to our documentary, we also used text which came on from the sides, to almost answer the question. We then used white text for the title again at the end of our documentary. All the text we used throughout our documentary was white as we wanted to keep the colour scheme consistent throughout, also it stands out well.

Scripting

Thes are the facts we read out during the voiceover which played over the top of the people walking in
and out of the fast food restaurant. We collected these facts from health websites and news websites. 

These are the questions we asked Debra Brown during the interview.

This is the script for the voiceover which we played over the top of the shots of the fast food restaurants.