CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF RADIO TRAILERS

CODES AND CONVENTIONS OF RADIO TRAILERS:


- voice over: anchors meaning, asks rhetorical questions- relevant to topic, can also be intercut between clips.
- sound effects (sound bed): relevant to topic and content.
- scheduling at end: channel, time and day its will be on and also the title of the documentary.
- gives your a feel about what the documentary is about.
- clips from documentary- gets the audience intrigued.
- language: informal and clear voice.
- 30/40 seconds long.
- includes a sloagn.

In class we looked at various radio trailers to identify the codes and conventions of radio trailer.

This is a picture of my class notes on codes and conventions of radio trailers:

As a class, we listened to many radio trailers to identify and analyse the codes and conventions of them. 

Storyville Season Trailer

It contained;

Sound effects
Voice over
Different sound levels and accents
Clear male voice giving schedule, title and channel at the end 

BBC Weather trailer
It contained;
Sound effects
Voiceover
Humour
Different sound levelsClear female voice giving schedule, title and channel at the end 

SCRIPTING VOICEOVER

Body image is considered to be a massively important factor in a person life whether they are male or female. For girls, makeup is a key ingredient for perfecting the way you look. The beauty industry brings in about 250 million pounds in the UK alone. This is a staggering amount to spend on something you wipe of each night.



On the other hand, weight is also a common problem in everyday life with some cases going to the extreme causing anorexia or obesity. A healthy but time consuming way to lose weight is Weight Watchers. This gives people the stability when wanting to lose weight.



Cosmetic surgery in some cases is a life threatening choice; however, some procedures can only take 20 minutes. Carol Mclaughan tells us about her experience.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDITING

Throughout the editing process, we used the program, Adobe Premiere Pro. This was so that our documentary was to a professional standard. Our group was entitled to many tools on this program that enabled use to create various cuts, graphics and to edit the interviews and cutaways easily. 

The program we used to create our documentary. 

This is an example of our documentary edited on Premiere Pro. Here you can see the time line in which we edited our filming into our finished documentary.

 This tool shows where we have uploaded each clip that we filmed. After uploaded we then drag the selected clip onto the time line where we can play around with it and edit it till seen as a professional piece of film. 

This shows the tool bar that enables you to edit your filming. The selected tool shown was used to cut precisely in the right places. By using this tool, we were enabled to delete certain parts we didn't want. 

This is an example of how we used the title tool to create graphics for our interviews as it is an important convention in documentary as it provides the audience information. The tool also enabled us to choose font and color that was appropriate for our documentary. In addition, it gave us the choice of where to position it on the screen.  

 As you can see, our audio was put into the time line such as our voice over and the various music we used. This was placed separately to the filming so that the music didn't overlap the filming. Again, by using this time line, we were enabled to cut, edit and fade in and out. 

Example of a member of our group editing our documentary. 

EDIT DECISION LIST

Counter Number	Shot Description/ other essential info	Type of Edit
00:08:48:01	Vox Pops: asking the general public about what different celebrities influence their style.	cut
00:00:01:12	Opening Titles	cut
00:00:00:00	Female putting on makeup on	cut
00:06:35:06	Pan of makeup and female putting more makeup on	cut
00:00:00:00	Stupid Girls music video(bathroom scene)	cut
00;00;00;00	Beautiful music video(mirror scene)	cut
00:06:35:06	Female walking up stairs then getting weight (fast speed)	cut
00:06:35:06	Weight watchers archive material	cut
00:00:09:18	Ruth Interview- weight watchers leader talking about weight loss programme	cut
00:00:02:05	Weight Watchers Cutaways: include weight watchers packages and also a person writing down her points	cut
00:00:00:00	Cutaways: Weight watchers food in freezers, cutaways	cut
00:00:42:07	Weight watchers on NHS- archive material	cut
00:03:19:17	Nathan Interview: talking about joining Weight Watchers	cut
00:00:42:07	Cutaways- before and after picture	cut
00:00:42:07	Cutaways- making healthy food	cut
00:00:04:05	Miss Borges Psychology teacher interview re-filmed	cut
	Cutaways of psychology posters	cut
00:00:00:19	Joe Deer  Personal Trainer second interview framed in a total fitness gym	cut
00:03:19:17	Nathan interview- talking about keeping fit	cut
00:11:32:03	Cutaways- Nathan in gym (boxing and weights)	cut
	Stupid Girls music video (cosmetic surgery scene)	cut
00:00:44:21	Carol Interview: talking about cosmetic surgery, framed in front of white background.	cut
00:00:02:05	Cutaways: pictures of Carol before cosmetic surgery	cut
	Archive material of cosmetic surgery	cut
00:00:48:15	Cutaway of Barbra Streisand	cut

PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOGGING

Working togther as a group to edit and log our filiming.

Checking our filming before we upload it on Premiere Pro.

LOGGING SHEET

Counter Number	Shot Description/ other essential info	Shot Length	Good Take? Yes/No
00:00:04:17	Nathan interview: talking about joining weight watchers, showing how to make a protein shake, doing weights and also standing on the scales.	00:24:10	No
00:00:02:23	Carol Interview:  talking about cosmetic surgery, framed in front of mirror	00:02:48:22	No
00:00:44:21	Carol Interview: talking about cosmetic surgery, framed in front of white background.	00:04:03:10	Yes
00:00:07:12	Filmed different types of styles and body images, framed in front white background.	00:00:28:06	No
00:00:38:15	Joe Deer interview: talking about being a personal trainer, framed in a gym standing next to treadmills.	00:01:03:10	No
00:01:42:10	Miss Borges Interview: talking about the psychology behind going on a diet, framed in a classroom.	00:02:57:06	No
00:08:48:01	Vox Pops: asking the general public about what different celebrities influence their style.	00:00:13:21	Yes
00:00:00:00	“	00:01:20:03	Yes
00:00:09:18	Nathan interview re-filmed	00:07:23:22	No
00:00:24:10	Title sequence	00:00:47:06	No
00:00:00:19	Joe Deer  Personal Trainer second interview framed in a total fitness gym	00:04:52:01	Yes
00:00:00:00	Weight watchers food in freezers, cutaways	00:02:04:13	Some footage
00:00:00:00	Miss Borges Psychology teacher interview re-filmed	00:01:46:22	Yes
00:00:02:05	Weight Watchers Cutaways	00:05:07	Yes
00:03:19:17	Nathan Interview re-filmed	00:09:21	Yes
00:00:09:18	Ruth Interview: talking about her weight loss and being a leader of a weight watchers group.		No
00:00:01:12	Title sequence new	00:03:47:13	Yes
00:06:35:06	Female putting makeup on	00:07:43:03	Yes
00:06:35:06	Female being weighed	00:07:43:03	Yes
00:06:35:06	More Weight watchers cutaways	00:07:43:03	Yes
00:00:42:07	More cutaways for Nathan interview (cooking)	00:04:37:16	Yes
00:00:42:07	Nathan before and after picture (pan)	00:04:37:16	Yes
00:00:42:07	NHS article (pan)	00:04:37:16	Yes
00:00:48:15	Carol cutaways picture before cosmetic surgery (pan)	00:03:25:06	Yes
00:00:48:15	Carol cutaways (Barbra Streisand picture) pan	00:03:25:06	Yes
00:00:42:07	Nathan cutaways- before and after	00:04:37:16	Yes