Supporting Pieces

Each group member had to make their own supporting ancillary piece, and then we all made one as a group.

As a group we originally planned to do an advertising pack. This advertising pack would include an advert for a magazine, billboard and bus stop. After we made the magazine advert as a group on the programme 'Fireworks' I then made the bus stop advert. Another group me

mber, Asia, made the third part of the pack - the billboard. We weren't happy with the way the advertising pack looked as it was very unprofessional looking and you could tell we hadn't spent as

much time gaining the skills we needed to produce good graphics. We then decided we weren't going to use these images anymore and planned to make a radio advert. We started by mind-mapping a few ideas on how to inform of a date and time that the documentary was on television without it being boring. Our final idea we feel is simple yet effective and was inspired by an army advert on the television. We wrote the script really quickly and got a group of people together in a quiet room to record it on GarageBand with the Yeti microphone. After recording a few times we were happy with the final result. It was then time to edit and add a backing track. We found the backing track on GarageBand along with a mechanical noise which sounds like a CCTV camera moving. We sped up some voices and changed the pitc

h of others. The idea was to make each voice sound different. The echo was added to emphasise the phrase 'they're always watching'. By emphasising this and after the words from the script the audience will be wondering what it is all about and ultimately watch it on television.

Making part of the advertising pack we used Microsoft Paint and FireWorks. I faded the flag to give it a more vintage look.

I chose to write a review for my personal ancillary piece. As I had never written a review before about anything, writing a review about a documentary I had made was quite challenging. After reading other reviews and understanding the main criteria needed, I produced a double-page spread review for a hypothetical magazine. I used the graphics that I made originally for the advertising pack that we didn't use to make the double page spread look more exciting. I also used a picture of a CCTV camera taken on the HD pocket camcorder and some stars as a rating system from the internet.