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2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? In addition to creating our documentary we also constructed a 30-second radio trailer and a double page spread from a television listings magazine, the aim of these products were to endorse and advertise our products, these creations had to be eye-catching and persuasive, convincing people not just our target audience but the general television viewing population to tune into our documentary. The overall aim was to create two ancillary products that complimented the main product effortlessly, above all else across the three products needed to work together well and consistency was key. Target Audience: “…Focused on teen, by teens & consumed by teens, too.” Target Audience: Males and Females aged 16-19 years, ranging further to those in their early twenties and beyond. Our primary target audience was teenagers and young adults making their way through the education system, primarily the focus was on teenagers aged sixteen and older due to the fact they would of left school and would currently be experiencing college/university for the first time, naturally we wanted to focus mainly on older teens as our documentaries main focus was after all bullying in higher education and bullying in academia, naturally we wanted to bring attention to an area of bullying that was clearly neglected by education institutions, government and the news media. One of the main reasons why this was such an obvious target audience for us was due to something I have already talked about in question one; ‘New Media’. One of conventions of ‘New Media’ is that the users are also participants, this usually relates to Facebook for example where the users of the site are able to participate in its running, dictating what appears on their page, managing it and making suggestions about future features, in the case of our documentary many of the same principles apply as the people who participate in it (interviewees, students at the college, members of the general public) are also destined to become users of the product (mainly teenagers due to the fact there is a direct correlation between ‘New Media’ and youth as well emerging technologies allowing as much as 24 hour media access) not only watching the documentary but also criticising and praising it, evaluating its message and linking the documentary to the online global conversation about bullying. This is why aiming our bullying documentary at teens makes perfect sense, because they are the ones most likely to spread the word about it so to speak, re-uploading it to various sites video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion and discussing it on forums and above all else because bullying in higher education is relevant to them most they are the ones who can stop it through the use of social media and demanding something be done about it, above all else it matters to them most, to their age group more so than any other older or younger. The aim of the documentary being to raise awareness and ultimately put a stop to bullying then essentially it must connect with the generation of teens who are currently being bullied and doing the bullying higher education. Although this is certainly an issue that lay in the students consciousness and mattered to them most, even if some did not realise it that did not mean that it could not appeal to various other demographics, in fact due to the message being a very important social issue we wanted to make sure as many people saw the documentary as possible. Our secondary target audience would be for example parents of those teenagers at secondary or school level, parents/caregivers/teachers and older members of society were certainly people whom we targeted our documentary at, as they also

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2) How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

In addition to creating our documentary we also constructed a 30-second radio trailer and a double

page spread from a television listings magazine, the aim of these products were to endorse and

advertise our products, these creations had to be eye-catching and persuasive, convincing people –

not just our target audience – but the general television viewing population to tune into our

documentary. The overall aim was to create two ancillary products that complimented the main

product effortlessly, above all else across the three products needed to work together well and

consistency was key.

Target Audience: “…Focused on teen, by teens & consumed by teens, too.”

Target Audience: Males and Females aged 16-19 years, ranging further to those in their early

twenties and beyond.

Our primary target audience was teenagers and young adults making their way through the

education system, primarily the focus was on teenagers aged sixteen and older due to the fact they

would of left school and would currently be experiencing college/university for the first time,

naturally we wanted to focus mainly on older teens as our documentaries main focus was after all

bullying in higher education and bullying in academia, naturally we wanted to bring attention to an

area of bullying that was clearly neglected by education institutions, government and the news

media. One of the main reasons why this was such an obvious target audience for us was due to

something I have already talked about in question one; ‘New Media’. One of conventions of ‘New

Media’ is that the users are also participants, this usually relates to Facebook for example where the

users of the site are able to participate in its running, dictating what appears on their page,

managing it and making suggestions about future features, in the case of our documentary many of

the same principles apply as the people who participate in it (interviewees, students at the college,

members of the general public) are also destined to become users of the product (mainly teenagers

due to the fact there is a direct correlation between ‘New Media’ and youth as well emerging

technologies allowing as much as 24 hour media access) not only watching the documentary but also

criticising and praising it, evaluating its message and linking the documentary to the online global

conversation about bullying. This is why aiming our bullying documentary at teens makes perfect

sense, because they are the ones most likely to spread the word about it so to speak, re-uploading it

to various sites video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion and discussing it on

forums and above all else because bullying in higher education is relevant to them most they are the

ones who can stop it through the use of social media and demanding something be done about it,

above all else it matters to them most, to their age group more so than any other older or younger.

The aim of the documentary being to raise awareness and ultimately put a stop to bullying then

essentially it must connect with the generation of teens who are currently being bullied and doing

the bullying higher education.

Although this is certainly an issue that lay in the students consciousness and mattered to them most,

even if some did not realise it that did not mean that it could not appeal to various other

demographics, in fact due to the message being a very important social issue we wanted to make

sure as many people saw the documentary as possible. Our secondary target audience would be for

example parents of those teenagers at secondary or school level, parents/caregivers/teachers and

older members of society were certainly people whom we targeted our documentary at, as they also

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hold the power to impact social issues as the likelihood is being older they wield more power and

influence and have the authority to influence social issues and society positively if issues are brought

to the forefront of their agenda, that is the reasons behind our primary and secondary target

audience although we did go further to involve the broadest amount of people we could by asking

members of the public about focus on bullying when children were younger, this informs and

involves first time parents who may educate their child on the issue from what they learnt from

watching the documentary, this had an extremely positive effect as not only does it teach the next

generation to grow up without having to bully or be the victim of bullying but it also passes the

knowledge on younger children perhaps who are only a short while away from secondary school, still

in primary school but on the cusp of being a teenager meaning it is relevant to them or will be soon

but they might not be able to watch it as it airs at 9:00pm (due to the distressing nature of the

subject matter) being too young they are still able to benefit from it as the information and

knowledge the documentary offers is passed along down the chain. This is ultimately what we

wanted to achieve, we had a clearly defined primary and secondary audience but overall we wanted

to involve as many people as we possibly could.

Further information on Target Audience:

Traditionally under the various demographics society is split according to various different

characteristics, with certain programmes aiming themselves at particular groups in society, this is

not something we wanted to do, we wanted our documentary to be as broad as possible as I have

already outlined, for two main reasons; one, the broader the appeal the more commercial success

the programme will enjoy as the higher the viewing figures the more companies will want to take

out advertising space and as a result more revenue is produced. Secondly, bullying is a problem

based around excluding people or preying on certain minorities, naturally we wanted to discuss the

problem as something that involved the entire society, not by focusing on a specific race, religion or

people with a particular disability. We do however talk about race relations, ethnic diversity and

sexual orientation in our documentary but in a sense relating to why such minorities e.g.

homosexuals often fall victim to bullying. Finally, location was also an important factor, we travelled

to the Sixth Form College, Solihull an area rich in diversity so it was clearly an appropriate location, in

addition to that deprived areas in which there is diversity and problems caused by it such as

animosity between different religious or ethnic groups is somewhere this documentary should be

exhibited in order to defuse the situation.

Ancillary Products:

Judging how both of the ancillary products appeals to the target audiences shows whether all three

products are combined together effectively, as well the question, are the two ancillary tasks selling

the main product (the documentary) effectively enough? One example of how both products clearly

do back up the main product and themselves are consistent as pieces of advertisements can be seen

through the use of clips, excerpts and photos from the documentary in the ancillary tasks.

Radio Trail –

In the radio trail much like how we created the opening montage in the documentary (the

reconstruction of a student in higher education being bullied) we overlapped a series of clips, these

excerpts both from the opening reconstruction in the documentary and extracts from the voiceover

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from various points in the documentary were combined and overlapped in order to get the desired

effect. Many of the extracts from the voiceover are key pieces of narration, memorable and likely to

have been stuck in viewer’s minds from the radio trail when you come to watch the documentary

which is one of the reasons we chose to include them as they combine together so well. The effect

this montage has on a radio listener is that it becomes uneasy to listen, difficult to concentrate on an

individual piece of speech as a single voice is constantly tuning in and out and overlapping the last

statement, making the listener uncomfortable was something that was required as bullying was a

touching and delicate issue to focus on it was important not to let this documentary go to waste so if

shock tactics were required we were willing to use them, making the audience feel uncomfortable

was just one tactic/convention in which we employed to keep their attention and getting them

tuning in once the documentary aired on television. Furthermore the repetition of the words such as

‘Why’ and ‘Bullying’ work to distress the listener further, tugging on their emotions and making

them ask fundamental questions; ‘bullying is clearly happening, but why do we let it go on?’

Aside from the clips we extracted from the documentary to construct the radio trail, the rest of the

speech the radio trail contained was written specifically for it. We wrote a short script for the radio

trail (which can be found on the blog) and I read it, my voiceover starts and ends the documentary

providing context for the clips heard. When I read the script for the radio trail I decided to go for

quite an enthusiastic tone in order to entice and interest listeners, mentioning the time and channel

twice was another effort to grab listener’s attention and latch onto it earlier in the advertisement. In

addition to that when reading the voiceover for the radio trail in character as a radio disc jockey I

tried to make the character sound concerned when I read the script, lines such as; “It sounds the

touching subject…” creates poignancy and concern for the listener and affirms to them that this is a

serious topic that is going to be discussed in this documentary. A final important factor to note is

apart from my voiceover the only other point in the documentary were one voice isn’t speaking over

the top of another is when the montage falls silent and the question is repeated which was first

asked in the documentary; “So, why is it that an issue as widespread as bullying is so neglected?”

this the perfect extract from the documentary in which to end the montage on as it poses the an

obvious question but one that is increasingly difficult to answer.

Overall I think the radio trail is an effective piece of advertising and works well to sell the

documentary, I feel the radio trails clearly explains albeit briefly what they can expect from our

documentary. The radio trail will be on Capital FM the reasoning behind selecting this radio station

and making sure the primary target audience heard it was something I will now discuss.

Capital FM –

Capital Radio will be the perfect station in which to broadcast our radio trail as it will easily reach the

right target audience for a documentary on Channel 4. Capital is a network of nine stations. The

stations serve an audience of 7.1 million listeners and target a core audience in the 12-20 age group,

this is the perfect demographic as I have already mentioned our primary target audience for our

documentary is teens aged sixteen years and onward, the fact that the station actually targets

younger children sometimes as young as 12 means it will reach other people outside of our primary

target audience, this was good news and presented another good reason for choosing Capital Radio

to exhibit our documentary. Besides the fact that the radio station was popular with the young

demographic there was another important factor which sway us toward selecting Capital Radio, the

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fact they have such a large listenership, with millions as I have already mentioned tuning in

everyday, furthermore the location was also an important factor as Capital reaches out to people all

over the country, airing radio shows in major cities such as Birmingham and Manchester and

London, this is important as the documentary will be able to reach people across the country,

nationwide, something we wouldn’t of been able to achieve if we had selected a smaller station that

didn’t broadcast to as many major cities as Capital does. It was especially important to reach out to

big cities not just because of their large potential viewership but because of their diversity and large

proportions of young people, all of whom are targeted by the documentary and it is essential such

people see it if the issue is ever going to be combatted.

In conclusion, the radio station and television network we selected go together perfectly, attracting

the same target audience and having a large viewership/listenership and the ability to reach people

all over the country meaning as people as possible will see and hear about the documentary and be

able to catch it when it airs on Channel 4. The elements that we put in our radio trailer, such as the

documentary clips, voiceover, background beat and ambient sound (such as the laughter) all help

back up the documentary and combine them both very well together, the selection of Channel 4 and

Capital Radio work to combine the two products even more successfully.

Double Page Spread – Photos

We used screen shots from the

documentary as images in our

television listings double page

spread, this helped create ‘brand

identity’ between the

documentary and double page

spread. The idea of creating

‘brand identity’ across the three

products is seen here for a second

time as we included excerpts from

the documentary in the ancillary

tasks in this case it was images

and in the case of the radio trail it

was sound bites from the voiceover and the opening reconstruction not only does this link the

products together very well but it also showed elements (be it sound or stills) from the documentary

views can expect to see later when the documentary airs. This helps them get a ‘feel’ for the

documentary early on, making them think that they have an inside track as they already have

knowledge about the topic and the documentary’s general message due to reading the double page

spread or either listening to the radio trail.

Only two of the images on the double page spread are screen shots (the images are clearly labelled

with orange arrows above to designate them from the rest, while the rest were original images) the

reason why we selected to use images is obvious as I have already discussed it aimed to create

‘brand identity’ but the reason behind selecting those two screen shots above all of the images we

could of captured from the documentary is a rather more complex issue. The reason behind

selecting the black and white image in the top right hand corner was mainly because throughout the

Screen Shots

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products we were trying to connote the loneliness and isolation experienced by those who get

bullied this can be seen throughout the documentary during the reconstruction and the title

sequence for example when I (playing the character of a bullied student) appear to be crying on a

bench alone, expressing how those who are considered ‘loners’ are often the ones bullied in the first

place, the harassment and intimidation eventually leads to the victim shutting themselves off from

society even further, this is something we wanted to continue to put across to the audience as we

felt we did it successfully in the documentary, so we chose to include this image in the documentary

to continue to promote the idea of isolation and the ill effects it causes, this can be clearly observed

through the nature of the image my character is walking far ahead alone, nearest the camera so the

emotions of the victim can be clearly seen, three girls can be seen in the background walking a short

distance behind, laughing, the caption reads; “Deflated…John was harassed walking to college,” the

caption clearly highlights what is happening in this image and what the documentary itself is going to

be about, not only is the ‘John’ character experiencing at the very least verbal and emotional abuse

(as the three background characters are laughing at him) he is also totally isolated from friends,

teachers and peers. This is what this image aimed to demonstrate our reason for including this

screen shot in black and white we felt made it more effective as it contributed to the idea of

sadness, depression and misery emotions often experienced by those who are bullied, the black and

white imagery highlights the bleak and gloomy world of bullying victims were there is no laughter,

joy or amusement.

The second image inserted into the double page spread from the documentary highlights an entirely

different concept of bullying, as with many other documentaries produced previous to ours they

focus on physical and verbal confrontation, this is obviously something we too tackled, but our

documentary aimed to paint a broad picture of the bullying issue and when doing this we decided to

include a brief section on cyber-bullying toward the end of the documentary. In the world of bullying

using new technologies to harass and intimidate is an ever increasing problem, one of our aims was

to highlight how through the use of social networking sites bullies are able to pull in large groups and

anonymously meaning the bullying now follows students home, infiltrating the home environment,

the bullies are able to tap into the various number of sites available to them to harass and torment

victims, this is something we tried to present toward the end of our documentary highlighting the

fact that if something isn’t done about the bullying issue it is going to become increasingly worse as

new technologies mean it’s becoming harder and harder to identify who is doing the bullying, this

reason is one of the main motivations behind selecting the image we did, the bully in the photo can

be seen using twitter (one of the many social networking sites available) to post an abuse tweet to

fictional victim John; “I’m going to knock you out when I see you!” when you see the clip in the

documentary in which we show the abusive message being set there is clearly grammatical errors

and excessive use of exclamation marks, we did this to make subtle references toward the fact the

bullying is often ‘forgotten’ or ‘left behind’ by the education system, jealous of others success and

intelligence, feeling cheated they prey on those they are envious of, this is often a defence

mechanism as they themselves are feeling weak and cheated by society as a whole. Furthermore the

fact that the bullies face is obscured in the photograph aimed to highlight the anonymity of it all, as

people are able to get away with bullying those they see in class every day without the victims,

parents or staff ever finding out, the fact they’re face isn’t shown contributes to the idea of them

being cowardly and hiding behind the screen, a sentiment often express by anti-bullying advocates

toward those who cyber-bully peers.

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Furthermore the other two main images on the double page spread were original images, with the

smaller image on the right below the black and white image which shows the bullied John character

played by myself sitting in the Foetal Position, this was done to highlight the extreme trauma the

bullied character is going through the Foetal Position is often associated with those who suffer

anxiety attacks, often assuming the position during particularly traumatic episodes, this is an

indication that our victim through the relentless bullying and having nobody to turn to has caused

him to have a breakdown of sorts, we tried to reinforce this not only by the caption; “Isolated…John

was shunned by his peers,” but also the camera shot and angle we employed. We deliberately

included the lockers down the left hand side, as well as taking the shot from a fair distance away, we

did this to create depth to the image, the lockers look as if they run off into the distance giving the

impression that the victim, John is a ‘long way off’ so to speak, this represents his damaged emotion

state, he is lonely, broken down but he may as well be a million miles away as nobody can really see

what is taking place. Overall we felt this image was highly effective, as well as the fact it contributed

to the idea of ‘brand identity’, although this was an original image taken specifically for the double

page spread we used similar camera angles to achieve shots at various points in the documentary

you can see an example of this below:

Another example of the bullied character being found in

the Foetal Position, to represent anxiety as well as the

use of camera angles and positioning to make the

character seem a much further distant away than they

are in reality.

The final image, the main image in fact is an example of an area in which we had problems and had

to make compromises, if you watch the opening title sequence in the documentary you will see a

very similar, almost identical image of the main character John sitting on a bench alone, crying. The

only element that is significant is the lack of snow in the shots on the documentary whilst snow is

present in the main image found on the double page spread, the reason behind this was severe time

constraints and a series of problematic weather conditions forced us to shoot some of our shots in

the snow, this did not affect the documentary but rather the main image of the double page spread,

we did consider the option of using a still from the documentary but when it was blown up to the

appropriate size the quality was often grainy and as we didn’t want to compromise the quality of our

main image being as it is the focal point of the double page spread we decided instead to go with

our image in the snow and adjust the caption accordingly in order to make it work in our favour;

“Left out in the cold…John was bullied for years.” Adjusting the caption in this meant we could use

an otherwise defective image to our advantage as once again we were able to highlight the raw

emotions, with the snow signalling the harsh, bitter winter it had undeniable links with the victim

John’s emotions including feeling alone in the harsh climes both metaphorically and literally as well

as the phrase ‘Left out in the cold..” having an obvious double meaning. Apart from the issue with

the snow there is little else that needs to be said about the image as it is very self-explanatory, in

conclusion we felt it worked well toward the idea of creating a ‘brand identity’, despite the snow the

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viewer will clearly be able to associate the main image from our double page spread to the very

similar image used in our opening sequence.

Further Images –

The final image on the double page spread in which I would like to briefly discuss is the image of the

I-Phone, this image is neither directly original or from our documentary (although the same I-Phone

is used in the documentary the one on the double page spread isn’t a still) firstly, we took a

photograph of an I-phone carefully manipulated the image cutting out the background so the image

stood alone, we then using InDesign created our own message which we doctored onto the original

I-Phone image, the message alert read: “TIPMYSCHOOL Joe Public is beating up John Smith behind

the school.” The idea behind writing this message was to highlight the issue of cyber bullying,

toward the end of our documentary we devote a small segment (although a reasonable portion of

our time considering the documentary is only 5 minutes) to the problem of emerging technologies

and how once possessed by bullies the whole problem becomes a lot harder to stop, as a student

could be getting bullied by someone who sits next to them in class everyday but never know it. In

the case of our image however it is somewhat of a special case as it isn’t anonymous cyber bullying

we present on the message of our I-Phone image rather it is an announcement that our victim ‘John’

is being beaten up, the message aimed to display just how cold hearted bullying really is, that people

will both actively and passively engage in bullying, even if they aren’t themselves performing

physical or verbal abuse on a victim their presence be it observational for entertainment purposes or

their lack of speaking up for vulnerable victims makes them complicit, which is what the message on

the I-Phone aims to promote, that even those who are witness to bullying but chose to do nothing

are partly responsible for the vicious and hurtful activity continuing.

Furthermore, the use of ‘John’ being beaten up helped create consistency as we followed this

victim’s story, as we see this character so often portrayed in the same fashion – alone, distressed,

nervous etc. – we begin to empathise with him more and more as well as understand the characters

story, we’ve seen him being bullied (images of it are included on the double page spread, a

reconstruction in the documentary) and even when the focus switches away from him it turns out

those who are perpetrators of cyber bullying are attacking this victim also, the continual focus on

‘John’ worked not only to help the audience become emotionally invested in the character but also

his mention becomes repetitive in a sense working to strengthen the idea of the all-encompassing

nature of bullying and how today if your bullied at school, in college or the workplace the bullying

can follow you home through abuse texts, social networking sites and posting videos of the bullying

taking place online.

Again, ‘brand identity’ was important here; the use of the character John as well as the cyber

bullying theme is something that helped forge a closer relationship between the documentary and

the double page spread, as well as strengthening the back-story to our documentary, something I

will discuss in more detail when I move onto the article.

The Article –

It is possible some minor criticisms could be levelled against the article written for the double page

spread as it perhaps doesn’t appeal to the target audience as much as the radio trail does for

example, the reason for this is because its written to a high standard, with complex language and

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above all else is generally long and complex. We decided to go ahead with a complex article for the

article had a professional finish for a serious topic. However this did cause some problems,

traditionally speaking we chose a radio station (Capital) which would play our radio trail because for

lack of a better word it is considered a ‘young’ radio station, this obviously gelled perfectly with our

product, however in regard to the double page spread we felt T.V. listings magazines that had a

predominantly younger readership were too ‘tacky and unprofessional’ such as ‘TV Easy’ and ‘TV

Choice’ with many of them lacking the in depth articles (many substituting them for large coloured

blocks with only snippets of text) we felt we needed to express the reality of the topic in detail, this

put us in somewhat of a predicament as the types of listings magazines that suited our target

audience did not necessarily suit our double page spread, specifically the article.

Despite the possibility of not maximizing on our target audience we proceeded with a more

traditional double page spread layout, we felt on the whole it was worth the sacrifice as the article

was a fundamental piece of writing and it was essential we didn’t ‘dumb it down’ for any other

listings magazine which is why in the end we selected the more conventional and traditional radio

times.

Readership – The Radio Times

“The latest circulation figure (July–December 2009) for the Radio Times is 1,000,648 making

it third in the TV listings magazine market behind TV Choice (1,302,382) and What's on TV

(1,243,933)”

Although early on there were some minor issues with the target audience not being met, it should

be noted however the problem ceased to exist once we had finished extensive research into the

radio times as our concerns began to fade away once we realised that although the magazine didn’t

necessarily fit our target audience to the same level that say Capital Radio did. It did however

provide us with much faith once we found out the latest circulation figures, with it being the third

largest listings magazines (behind TV Choice & What’s on TV, both of which we ruled out) as well as

the fact that the radio times was predominantly read by those considered our secondary target

audience, not so much teens and young adults but rather professionals such as; teachers, social

workers, lecturers, community organisers as well as parents of those currently in schools, colleges

and universities.

The result of this was not only is there a high chance the radio times primary readership will likely

pass on the message about such a documentary and the anti-bullying message in general to

teenager sons or daughters, students or other adults but there was also the chance of the magazine

going into ‘circulation’ this means when for example an middle aged parent buys a magazine it is

often read by others in the house this will include teenage sons or daughters:

“On average between 2003 and 2010, each copy of the Radio Times has 2.3 – 2.9 readers.”

This means that although the radio time’s primary readership may not be our primary target

audience once the article and double page spread goes into circulation there is a strong chance it

will fall into the hands of many teens and young adults who inadvertently stumbled upon a product

that was designed with them in mind originally.

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The radio times includes many different articles from those ranging with a target audience of BBC 2

viewers to articles, stories and other promotions aimed at a much younger audience who watch

Channel 4 or BBC three, although significantly less is focused on teens there is still a clear attempt by

the publishers and editors to add the younger generation to its pre-existing predominantly older

readership. As there radio times often includes articles on a diverse range of topics for a variety of

different age/social groups including a double page spread on a serious topic like bullying is

uncommon. Therefore I can say with confidence the radio times remained appropriate for our

double page spread to be printed in. However, if anything did let us down in terms of association

and combinations between the ancillary tasks this was it, as perhaps the radio times differed too

significantly from Capital, meaning although ‘brand identity’ wasn’t compromised maybe market

penetration was.

The Article – ‘Brand Identity’

I would like to briefly discuss how the article written for the double page spread creates a strong

sense of ‘brand identity’ between it and the main task, the documentary. The idea behind the

double page spread was to represent two areas of the documentary; the first as I have already

explained was done through the images as they continued the victimisation of John – the storyline

we began in the documentary through the reconstruction is a central theme and we continued this

with the images used for the double page spread either having John in them or being about John,

the effect this had was help people associate between the two products, if they had read the double

page before watching the documentary they have an idea of a backstory, as well as being reassured

early on they are watching the right thing as the reconstruction featuring John is in the very opening

of the documentary, alerting people early on to the association between the two products,

furthermore the article itself aimed to create association through strengthening and solidifying the

backstory of how the documentary came to be.

The idea of using the double page spread’s article as a platform to express the story behind the

filmmakers who made the documentary was a revelation we felt by telling their story it made the

documentary more personal and allowed the reader/viewer to empathise further with the subject

matter as these filmmakers had been bullied and they were simply trying to act upon experience and

do there bit to stop an age old problem. The result of this was not only was there ‘brand identity’,

the association when deeper than that, the use of a detailed backstory created depth, meaning and

solidarity with the viewer, as they are ‘everyday guys’, something that couldn’t of been achieved if it

had been produced by one of the ‘big six’ – 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount

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Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures- the idea of this being a

personal project or a project of passion would have been compromised if it was produced in any

other way than independently.

Conclusion:

Combination of three products – Documentary, Double Page Spread, Radio Trail.

Overall we felt the combination between our three products was very good, we felt all three

successfully combine to promote the three products. Our extensive use of common elements such

as images from the documentary on the double page spread or sound bites from the documentary

used in the radio trailer strengthened the ‘brand’ we ended up creating for these products. They are

cleared banded together by their common elements, unity in the message they promote and

cohesion in their distinct style, feel and overall look.

Promotion –

I feel the two ancillary products work exceptionally well together to advertise and promote the

documentary, the clear target audience we set out to reach was clearly well advised and ideal for

our product, our products nonetheless retained the ability to appeal to a wide range of different age

groups as I have talked about earlier secured their place in print media and radio. The winning

combination of stylized editing techniques, consistent images, a detailed backstory, empathetic and

personal characters as well as controversial and thought provoking subject matter and many more

elements created a winning formula, were just one small element (nevertheless, an important one)

‘brand identity’ helped create an effective combination between the main product and ancillary

texts.

Early notes on various aspects

relating to the double page article.

Page 11: Question 2

The article john’s brand association

Combination paragraph and promotion paragraph

John bullying consistency

TWO MAIN PRIORITIES:

GET STARTED ON QUESTION 3

TAKE SCREENIES

And read stickie notes

Iphone is a special case

Created consistency with john being bullied

We edited an iphone, the idea was lockers made him seem a long way off emotionally distant.

A problem was the snow that was something we had to overcome, be frank but we made it work,

left out in the cold.

They were original images but taken to promote inspiration, modelled after the doc. But still original

- Paragraph on images

- Paragraph on article

- Screenies Friday morning break

- Upload Friday afternoon 1 & 2

- Work on question 4 when get home, Friday, sat and sun. also reupload prezi’s sat/sun?

We didn’t just do radio we targeted print media too

I didn’t feel they did this with have to cut tom’s segment from doc but it had to stay in dps.

Creation of backstory also the dps used a different mode to expository

Here you need to look at how effectively your 3 texts combine. You need to consider how issues

such as how effectively they all target the same audience and to what extent you feel that you

have created a clear ‘brand identity’ for your 3 texts. You also need to consider how effectively

you feel your radio trailer and your magazine article promote your documentary. Be honest and

reflective here. Again, use examples from your texts to support the points that you make here.

VERY IMPORTANT

Double Page Spread Article.

Page 12: Question 2

Discuss the beat – do at home can’t listen at college.

Overall it it a good advertisement, why?

Fail at brain identity – PROMOTE