Comparative Research and Plan for TV Listings Magazine

I have comparatively deconstructed two more TV listings magazines to understand the genre and style of my product, determine my exhibitor, and plan my own TV listings magazine. I have presented this below using Prezi.

Interview for Audience Feedback

I recently conducted an interview with Mr Mooney to collect feedback on the rough edit of my documentary so far, and have presented and evaluated my findings below using Emaze.

First Edit of my Documentary

Below is the first edit of my documentary production. From this point, I need to add the final name of my documentary to my main title and hashtag, my non-diegetic music from this post, additional footage over the point where I've combined two takes of the definitions of misogyny and sexism to make them audibly usable, and to shorten the duration of my location shots. Overall from this stage, I am pleased with its coherent and flowing structure, and interesting, professional style through my presenter, narration, interview, cinematography and audio quality etc. I also feel that I have met the conventions of my documentary genre and expository documentary sub-genre well through these aspects as planned, and all issues have been easily resolved so far throughout my editing process.

Documentary First Draft from Courtney O'Donnell on Vimeo.

I will begin gathering target audience feedback now that my documentary is at this flowing and in its mostly final state, in order to allow time to apply any possible adjustments and improvements from this point before my final edit and deadline. As my editing has been taking longer than expected despite my proactive approach during my free periods and perhaps due to my perfectionism and unfamiliarity with Final Cut Pro editing software which I've had to research online, I feel that I'm slightly behind in my time management; however I'll continue to dedicate my free periods alongside my lessons to editing my documentary, and produce my ancillary products within this time as well as at home using my own facilities which are appropriate for this area.

Adding my Archive Footage

Following my storyboard, I added archive footage of examples of sexist music videos within my documentary to align with expository documentary conventions and support my narration with evidence. The music videos I added were taken from the most popular suggestions of controversially sexist music videos within my questionnaire, in order to effectively target to my audience through music videos which are relevant to them, and also included sexually explicit music videos which I felt were more sexually liberating rather than sexist to follow the line "Some would say this has liberated modern artists by allowing freedom and pushing the boundaries of creative expression". Therefore the music videos I added are;

• Beyonce 'Partition'
• Nicki Minaj 'Anaconda'
• Miley Cyrus 'Wrecking Ball'
• Lil Wayne 'Love Me'
• Redfoo 'Literally I Can't'

From researching how to download music videos, I tested keepvid.com and savevideo.me, and found that savevideo was the most effective.

Link to post about copyright and permissions.

Next I imported the videos to my Final Cut Pro project, trimmed them, and detached their audio to overlay my voiceover. However as I'm criticising the lyrics of 'Literally I Can't' in an individual section, I left kept this audio and researched ducking tutorials for Final Cut Pro so that the transition between my diegetic/ voiceover narration and the song gradually builds for a clear, smooth and flowing effect, using these resources;


www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2011/10/ducking_audio_in_final_cut_pro_x.php

Ducking my audio by lowering the height of the waveform from at the beginning and end of the clip, creating a fading in/ out audio effect and ducking my voiceover which overlays the quieter fades.

To address possible copyright issues with using this archive footage, I will need to research this area further and add appropriate disclaimer text over the footage - which I will update in a separate post.