The document discusses the process of creating a documentary called "Music, Mind, Mayhem." It describes how the creators conducted research on professional documentaries like "Supersize Me" to understand typical conventions. They applied techniques like rule of thirds framing in interviews and using background music and observations. Feedback was collected on the documentary's understandability, influence, research relevance, enjoyment, sound, and ability to intrigue viewers. The creators also made a double page spread and radio trailer applying conventions of those media.

2. Our documentary; Music, Mind, Mayhem, holds many aspects and
conventions of real media products in many ways. This is because in the run
up to the making of our documentaries, we carried out a substantial amount
of research into what features a typical professional media product contains.
We watched Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Supersize Me’ and also Airline
documentaries. From watching these, we got a practical idea of what our
own documentaries should consist of and what is necessary to be included in
order for it to portray typical conventions of a professional documentary.

3. Music, Mind, Mayhem. Supersize Me.
During our interviews for our documentary; Music, Mind, Mayhem, we
kept in mind typical features of a genuine documentary, such as ‘rule of
thirds’. As demonstrated above, the rule of thirds helps to bring structure
to the screen shot layout. We chose to use a medium close up shot, in
order to add a casual and laid back approach to the image. Usually, during
an interview, the interviewee will either look into the camera lens or at the
interviewer being the camera itself.

4. Music, Mind, Mayhem. Supersize Me.
We chose to use observation to be used in our documentary as it is a
convention of a real media documentary product. As shown on the left hand
image, screen printed from our actual documentary;
Music, Mind, Mayhem, you can see a silhouette of a girl watching a Marilyn
Manson music video, this symbolises the process of someone being influenced
by the explicit rock music of today. Similar in the right hand picture, screen
printed from Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Supersize Me’, you can see him ordering a
McDonalds, this fits in with the theme of their documentary, as the
observation that we used fits in with our theme of documentary; the influence
of rock music.

5. Background music was another convention that we used in our documentary in
order for it to represent a real media product, as it was something that we
found was a pattern that repeated in most documentaries, such as ‘Supersize
Me’ and ‘Airline’. The few background music tracks that we chose had to be
simple yet somewhat related to the two music genres that we were focusing on;
rock and urban, but still not too intense in order for it not to overpower the
sound of the voiceovers, ‘vox-pops’ and general sounds of the documentary. We
used Garage Band to create our background music in order to maintain simple
beats, in order to uphold the conventions of real media documentary products.

6. Radio Times Music Mind Mayhem
As clearly shown above, the double page spread that we created for our documentary holds
many aspects similar to those published daily in magazines such as the Radio Times. After
analysing the Radio Times’ double page spread, we took into consideration what a conventional
double page spread usually looks like and so almost duplicated a real double page spread’s
layout of page, making it relevant to our theme of article. We included a main large image of
Marilyn Manson in order to signify the main theme of our article and his importance to our
chosen subject. We also included a small image relating to the text in order to give a ‘sneak-
peak’ into what our documentary would look and be like. We also used text wrap around our
smaller image in order to make our article hold more aspects of a typical double page spread.

7. Before putting together our radio trailer, we listened
to a few genuine ones in order to get a true
understanding of the aspects that ours must include
in order for it to sound genuine and effective for our
audience to be interested enough to watch our
documentary.

8. OUR TARGET AUDIENCE: Our target audience is anyone who is interested in the
subject, of any age, due to it not pin-pointing any particular target audience to
attract. Our documentary obviously focuses on teenagers and how music effects
them, although this does not necessarily meant that our documentary is aimed at
them. Music, Mind, Mayhem is a informative documentary, warning anyone and/ or
everyone the potential dangers of music’s influence on.
OUR RADIO TRAILER: We used clips of quotes from vox pops taken from our
documentary, and incorporated them into our radio trailer. We felt that this would
help the listeners to get an idea of what the documentary will consist of and how it
talks about the chosen subject of music’s influence on teenagers.
OUR DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD: We created our double page spread, with the theme of
rock music in mind, as it uses mainly blacks and reds and dark colours in order to
connote the dark side of rock music and what it can potentially sometimes cause.
We also incorporated one of the main icons of our documentary (Marilyn
Manson), in order for the audience to know what to expect, as he is a controversial

9. DOCUMENTARY
From this pie chart, we can see that our
documentary; ‘Music, Mind, Mayhem’ was
clear and understandable for our viewers, this
makes our documentary more likely to
represent genuine and professional media
texts.
From these results, we can see that our
documentary was not very influential for our
audience. This tells us that our documentary
should have been filled more with shocking
facts, this would have helped our documentary
to have more of an impact on the viewer’s
thoughts and opinions on the subject.

10. From this feedback, we know that the
research that we carried out related to our
documentary subject was relevant and
necessary to our documentary, we can see
that our viewers have learned something.
From this feedback, we can see
that from 1 to 10 (1 being low
and 10 being high), our
audience did not enjoy it drastic
amounts, although they did not
dislike it.

11. From this feedback, we know that our
sound levels were far from well
managed, although must have not
been too noticeable as some feedback
came back positively.
From this feedback, we understand that our
documentary clip intrigued the audience enough
for them to want to carry on watching the further
potential documentary. This is a positive sign, due
to it telling us that our documentary clip was
interesting enough for people to want to watch
more.

12. DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD
From this feedback, we can see that our
audience thought our page layout was a level
3, 4 or 5 out of 5, this is positive feedback, as
we learn that we have made good use of the
double page that we had to work with, and
this feedback tells us that we did this
correctly and effectively.
From this feedback, we can see that our
audience thought our double page spread
looked at a professional standard as it follows
conventions of a professional article, this may
have been due to the well put together
layout, the colour schemes and the use of
imagery.

13. RADIO TRAILER
From this feedback, we can see and
understand that our audience found our radio
trailer perfectly informative with an ample
amount of information included on our
documentary; ’ Music, Mind, Mayhem, for
them to be able to get a rough understanding
of what it will be about and when and where
it will be on, etc.
From this feedback, we can see and
understand that our audience found our radio
trailer clear and easy to understand. This is
positive and helpful, due to the radio trailer
only having its audio quality to be able to
inform the listeners, and so doing this
correctly is important for the qualities of a
radio trailer.

14. RESEARCH
AND
PLANNING:
First, we
decided which
theme of
documentary
to go for, out
of, these four
options, we
chose ‘Musics
influence, due
to it having the
most to
elaborate on
and more to
research as it is
such a current
concern.

15. I hand drew a brief
storyboard of what we
wanted our
documentary to roughly
look like once it was
PLANNING finished, once we had
an idea of the path we
were heading in, we
could begin to carry out
more in-depth research
into our actual theme
of documentary, such
as statistics and facts...

16. RESEARCH
Once we had chosen our desired topic of our documentary (rock and
urban music’s influence on teenagers), we started our in-depth research
into the subject, investigating statistic s, stories and cases on how this
music has influenced people. We chose to focus on rock and urban
music, as rock music often speaks of killing, Satan and suicide, and urban
music often speaks of gun crime, drugs and violence, and therefore are
most likely to have the most influence on today’s teenagers.

17. FILMING- Documentary.
After the research and planning, we began to make a start on the
filming of our documentary, going by the ideas we had planned on
our storyboards and research, etc. To film our documentary, we
used a Canon HG20 HD Camera.
This camera was useful, as it had suitable
settings and aspects to it, which enabled us to
zoom in and out on chosen filming material, in
order to add some alternating camera angles
and shots, for our documentary to seem
somewhat more interesting to watch.
Whilst filming our documentary material, we used a tripod a
lot, in order for our footage to be completely still and
professional, for it to imitate a real life documentary further.
The tripod especially came in handy whilst filming our
professional interviews , as they were the longest clips of
footage, therefore the tripod gave us the stability for a longer
period of time, which could not be accomplished hand held.

18. For our audio, we used a ‘directional microphone’
in order to record any sound, such as vox-pops or
professional interviews and our script. In order for
us to hear what was being recorded, we plugged
headphones into the camera, which was also
connected to the microphone, this helped us to
check sound levels...
...and ensure that there was not too much
background noise overpowering the initial desired
sounds being recorded, to ensure that there was
no unwanted background noise during the
recording of our script and radio trailer, we
recorded in a quiet room, in order to help us
concentrate on what we wanted recorded.

19. EDITING
Once we were satisfied that we had enough necessary
footage for our documentary, we began with the editing. We
started by uploading all of our clips onto the Apple iMac (we
did this as we went along, as we didn’t want to loose any
footage from our daily filming. This process was somewhat
straightforward as all we needed to do was copy the filed
documentary footage clips into our media drive. Once we
had finished this short and simple process, we began the
actual editing by opening Final Cut Express (Apple iMac
editing software), we used this to edit our entire
documentary. We labelled each of the clips to make it easier
and simpler for ourselves.
As soon as each of our clips were
transferred, we had our entire
documentary footage and sound
all together and ready to edit. As
a group, we experimented with
alternating editing styles.

20. Double Page Spread
To produce our double page magazine article, we used Adobe
InDesign, this program helped us to create our double page spread. We
initially wrote the article on Microsoft Word, in order to copy and paste it
into InDesign, this made the process easier, as it had spell check and was
just an overall easier process of going about writing our article. To create a
suitable theme and image of our article, we kept in mind one of the main
themes of our documentary; Rock music, and so worked our colour scheme
around that topic, we used reds and blacks, although maintained a very
similar layout to the Radio Times article that we had previously analysed.
We made use of the column tool, in order to split the text into two
columns.