Supporting Pieces - Newspaper Article

This is the final of our newspaper article. We have created questions which we feel will show the overall effort and consideration we have put into the documentary and how we planned the documentary to base it around a balanced argument and that it was not one sided to make our audience want to view the documentary because of our non-biased nature.

Audience Feedback

We showed our documentary to a group of year 12 media students to gain their personal feedback on how the documentary came across to them and whether or no the message was clear.

Prezi Evaluation

For my evaluation I have used both Prezi and Microsoft powerpoint.

The evaluation shows the other documentaries that have inspired our documentary and the documentors who have helped us to make our own decisions of the documentary.

We have also included our supporting pieces with a background to how we planned and developed the pieces.

We have also shown the new equipmentb we have used this year and the differences to last years work.

Voice Over

Charlie: In today's society, television is seen as the gateway to learning, with such shows as family guy do we really know the real effects TV has on children? What do they see? And what do they learn? What's really going on behind the screen?In this documentary we will be investigating the causes and effects these shows have on children.

Kate: From watching TV with friends to family, do we really know if its really acceptable in modern day and if children should actually be watching it?

Charlie: So does TV influence children's behaviour in the classroom?

Kate: But what happened when TV first emerged?

Charlie: With children watching an average of 19 hours and 40 minutes of television per week could it really damage their future lives? Or are programmes educating our children? If so, what shows do children watch?

Kate: In Australia a child spends an average of 18,000 hours watching cartoon. this is the same amount of time spent behind a school desk up to the age of 18. Is this good for education?

Charlie: With exams and tests at school , is TV a bad distraction during revision or does it help to teach important skills?

Kate: There are many shows such as The Simpson's that teach real morals, but what do the children really think of the cartoons?

Experimenting with Word Clouds

Newspaper Advert - Supporting Pieces

This is the new newspaper advert that we will use to show the audience what style of documentary we will show and to put across the message of safety to parents concerning TV.

The poster uses the image of an innocent children with a negative quote, displayed in childish font to make the quote seem a realistic quote from a child, to display both the positive and negative effects of TV.

The image of the child shows that children are naive, promoting the message that children will copy the actions of what they watch including "humorous" fights in cartoons.

This message should prompt the parents to consider their own children and whether or not they are watching sensible cartoons, encouraging morals or cartoons which encourage bad behaviour.

The statement next to this image quotes that the child will watch a cartoon, believe the results will end in humor and act out the watched sequence.

This, along with the image, shows how easily children can copy their TV heroes because of the laughter that they feel when watching the cartoons should be repeated if they act out violent actions.

Poster - Supporting Pieces

This is the new poster that we will use for our supporting pieces.

The poster uses the iconic image of a popular children's' TV show asking the parents if their children show more attention to TV instead of more important topics.

Although this posters may be simple, we feel that a blunt message is being put across to the audience and that they will understand, before hand, the nature that the documentary will take.

The idea of the rhetorical question in the poster is effective to make parents think whether or not their children watch too much or may too little TV.

We have made the poster to include both the positive and the negative effects of TV.

The poster includes a negative suggestion but includes the image of something positive such as the smiling cartoon. The image of the smiling cartoon makes the poster suggestive in a way that parents must think what cartoons they let their children watch and whether they are safe to watch beacause some cartoons could influence their behaviour for either negative, or in this case, positive purposes.