Research for the Supporting Pieces

After looking at real media examples at adverts for my billboard bus stop and magazine adverts, I have noticed a difference in each of them.

Magazine Adverts



Magazine adverts tend to be more detailed than those seen on billboards. This means that I need to make sure that my magazine advert contains the most information as readers will have more time to take it all in, something they would be unable to do passing by a bus stop or billboard advert.

Bus Stop Adverts



Bus stop adverts tend to have varying amounts of information on them. Although some have quite a lot of word on them, as seen in the above pictures, some have barely any writing. Despite this, they are still less detailed than magazine adverts. I thought that the most effective bus stop adverts that I saw during my research were those that had less writing and detail on them. For this reason I'm going to keep the information and detail on my bus stop advert limited.

Billboard Adverts



Billboard adverts have hardly any writing on them. Generally, one of the main focuses seems to be the channel on which the documentary will play. These adverts consist of big pictures with limited text and for this reason, I will use a limited amount of text with big pictures. Any text I do use will be large so that it is clear and noticeable.

Thank You Letter

Here is the thank you letter that we sent to Kenneth Clarke:

Kenneth Clarke Interview

We travelled to Nottingham where Kenneth Clarke's political surgery takes place. We took three camera's including George's HD SLR camera. We thought that the high definition would make our documentary look more professional, however, as not all of our documentary is shot in this high quality, we do not know if it will stand out too much. My role was to interview Kenneth Clarke asking him questions that our group had previously decided on. George used the SLR camera to film the main interview and one camera was left on a tripod recording me asking the questions. Finally, Calum used a smaller, lower quality camera to film fill shots such as hand movements.



Unfortunately we were unable to upload the whole interview with Kenneth Clarke to Youtube as we agreed that it's content would only be used for our documentary.

Music

Here are some samples of some of the music we have been thinking about using for our documentary. As our documentary deals with conspiracy theories such as Julian Assange's sexual assault charges being created in order to silence him, we have chosen a dark and intense theme for our documentary. We felt that this would help to create drama and suspense for our audience.

Examples of this can be found by following the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iid7uu6MNt8


'FarhanK501' will be our main source of music as, throughout all of his youtube pieces, he uses a dark theme of music that we feel will engage our viewer.

News Reports

We wanted to make our documentary engaging for the audience and decided that news montages would be a good way to do this. The Wikileaks website has recently had a lot of involvement in many news stories so this footage has not been hard to find. Furthermore, we have added some reports from American news channels that imply that Julian Assange should be put to death. This will show our audience the major effect of the Wikileaks news story and the serious implications that it has had for some governments in a dramatic and engaging way.

This news montage can be found below:

London Interviews

Here are some of the interviews with passers by in London:

Kenneth Clarke

As part of our documentary we wanted to interview a well known politician to make our documentary more engaging and interesting for the audience. We have managed to get an interview with Kenneth Clarke, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice during one of his political surgeries. We have agreed to use the interview as part of our A Level coursework only and therefore are unable to upload it to youtube.



Kenneth Clarke has been in politics for just over 40 years and has held the following roles during his time:

MP for Rushcliffe, 1970 -
PPS to the Solicitor-General, January 1971 - April 1972
Assistant Government Whip, April 1972 - February 1974
Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, January 1974 - February 1974
Opposition Social Security Front Bench Spokesman, June 1974 - November 1976
Opposition Industry Spokesman, November 1976 - May 1979
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Transport, May 1979 - March 1982
Minister for Health, March 1982 - September 1985
Entered Cabinet as Paymaster General and Minister for Employment, September 1985 - June 1987
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for Trade & Industry, June 1987 - July 1988
Secretary of State for Health, July 1988 - November 1990
Secretary of State for Education and Science, November 1990 - April 1992
Home Secretary, April 1992 - May 1993
Chancellor of the Exchequer, May 1993 - May 1997
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, January 2009 - May 2010
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, May 2010

We thought that Kenneth Clarke was a good choice for the politician we would use in our documentary as he has had a lot of experience within the government and currently specialises in the justice system. This would allow us to ask questions about Julian Assange's sexual assault charges as well as the availability of the internet in prisons.