Mail cover evaluation

What was the task you were given and who was your target audience?

Our task was to write and publish the breaking news of daily mail newspaper regarding the hold off
of the royal marriage of Meghan Markel and prince harry, Due to Meghan Markel dirty ongoing love
affair with a man called Brett Carpenter. The target audience is anyone interesting in reading the daily
newspaper and their social demographic is b, c1, c2 also people that support the conservatives.


2) What research did you undertake and what did you find were some of the typical conventions of
 a Daily Mail front cover - layout, types of stories, fonts
For the  research for this task, I looked at previous daily mail front covers to select a layout I thought
looked best to display the information. Daily mail newspapers as a whole use bold large front as their
 headlines ensuring it's their main eye attraction on a page. They use at least one photo to attract and
 engage their audience to inform as much information as possible. Also, due to their main audience
 too much writing wont attract the people they want. This aside the large use of color not only for
 their stories however for their advertisement usually positioned above the daily mail headline story.


3) Which Daily Mail cover did you use as your main source? Insert. What are your observations from
this source?


I used this daily mail front cover as It clearly shows the people involved or victims of the murder,
having a little information underneath the images about the murder giving a quick insight to their
 readers. Has advertisement up in the right-hand corner this is gaining the daily mail more money.
 underneath that it has another story to engage their readers, that story may be more well-known
might have been present on other newspapers. Then under that we have our main headline story
 ‘MURDERERS’ This would obviously attract their readers. I thought this would fit perfectly with
my story as I was able to show the people involved by using the layout. A bold singular word to
show power and intensity then a little information to engage the readers just from the front cove.

4) Which areas did you find most challenging?

At the beginning, what I found challenging was ensuring everything was the right size, the text
 was the correct font, and the text was long or short enough to fit with the layout of the daily mail
 paper I was recreating. And so, making sure the front cover matched as accurate and realistic as it
could possibly be.


5) What was your initial feedback? What did others say about your production? How successful was
do you think it is?

My classmates and teacher said they liked how realistic it looked to my focus daily mail paper.
They said how clear and easy to understand from one look. They liked the ‘TRAITOR’
 bold headline they said how it attracts your eye instantly. However, they said that could try and match
 the font exactly the same as the real one to make it even better. Also, the positing on certain
 text boxes could be rearranged slightly to fit perfectly corresponding with the original.


6) Identify what went well and with hindsight what you do to improve/do differently.

7) In the exam, you will be analysing newspaper front covers. In producing this cover, are
there any areas that you hadn't noticed before? What have you learnt from completing this task?

Assessment A1

Club advert remake

1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
I was happily put into a group working with Niamh, Holly, Jen and Olivia. We all worked really well together, Jen took control of the filming I helped directing, and the others acted. To finalise our advert me and holly edited ensuring the correct timing with the music and other elements to make sure the advert fits perfectly for the remake.

2. How did you plan your sequence? what processes did you use?
To ensure a good attempted remake we played the advert and filmed at the same time to make sure camera angles and timing was correct. before filming we did screenshot of the main camera shots and sectioned the last 17 seconds of the advert.

3. What theorists do you think you could apply to your task?
The theorists that we took inspiration wen recreating the advert is Albert Bandura due to the Media Effects. the reason why Albert would it perfectly is because he focuses o how media can implant ideas in the mind of his particular audience and how it can change behaviors of certain people. This can be seen in our video because the Club Bar gives a strong impression of joy an excitement convincing the audience to buy their product.

4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting an editing? 
The main factors we ad to take into account were the props, main actors, surroundings and effects including the last shot of the club advert.  Also we needed to consider how many people were in the shots and who needs to be the main focus of each scene. lastly we also need to consider the lighting, weather and time in which we need to shoot it as it wouldn't match to the original.

5. How successful was your sequence? Please identify what worked well and with hindsight what would you improve/ do differently? 
I think overall it went very well because we all took in turns to talk and presents ideas that would work best for the remake. Even better if we focused more the camera shots as some wasn't precise. secondly finding a real duck instead of an image on the computer. Thirdly  a real baby to stick as close to the original as possible. 

6. What did others say about our production? 
"i like the way we transitioned from each shot- good editing. It was in time with the advert." 
"i like how everyone played the role really well, and how it looked like the original. would be better i there more people in the park."
"Take more time to plan in creating the scenes for example get more people in 'busy scene' to show it being for lively so it looks similar to the advert. and get a real duck. and don't make the last bit green"

7. What have you learnt from completing this task?
I have learnt what to consider when i need to film an advert eg what props i would need, types of actors that would it the role, lastly knowing the right surroundings eg time, weather, light etc in order to remake an advert. Also more practice with the editing. 

8. Looking ahead, how will this leaning be significant when completing your future productions? 
It will help me to know peoples strengths and weaknesses in my group also including myself. also how planning is the most important to ensure everone knows where and what they should be doing.