Firstly the surf forecast had to be checked in order to ensure the surf was of a good standard. Once the conditions were right I went down to the beach with my featured surfer Dean Layzell. I found a location to film the surf footage from and set up my tripod and video camera. Shortly after, I started to film Dean and a couple of other people surfing. I also provided a waterproof video camera for another featured surfer to place at the front of his board to film himself. Once the majority of the surf filming had been done I moved onto filming skateboarding and biking. I set up some shots for people to film of me skateboarding as well.
After the clips had been filmed I used some software on a Mac called iMovie. This enabled me to edit all the footage together. All of the clips were uploaded onto iMovie and then the clips I thought were good enough were used in the actual documentary and are placed in the bottom bar on the iMovie application. Like seen in the picture below.
These clips were then edited to the preferred length and arranged in a suitable order. Transitions were used to connect the clips together giving a neat looking outcome.
The clips had all been put in place and it was time to sort out a voice over and non-diegetic sound tracks. Some of the talking was recorded using a hand held recording device and other parts were filmed straight from the camera microphone. Audio tracks also needed to be added. I used two songs that one of my friends band plays as bed tracks and to fill in any silent spaces. An introduction song was made using a program called ‘Garage Band’. This consisted of pre-set instrument parts mixed in with some parts I played using the keyboard as a piano.
This sound file was then exported as an mp3 file, transported to iTunes and used for the introduction sound clip to my Extreme Sports Documentary.
The bed tracks were then inserted along with the voice over, and were put in place. The volume of each sound track was adjusted to ensure one clip did not intefere with another. Once all of the volume clips and footage had been arranged into place transitions were added to give the overall video a professional feel. These transitions were put into place shown in the video below.
A title was then inserted at the beginning of the program where I felt was appropriate. I left the footage to roll through a small bit before doing the master heading as this followed the codes and conventions of other documentaries.
The next step to finishing my documentary was exporting out as a ‘Full DV’ file. To do this you need to go to the top of the page, click on the ‘file’ bar and then scroll down to ‘share’ and export it as the appropriate file type which in my case was both a ‘Full DV’ file and a low quality ‘DV’ file so that it can be uploaded onto the web.
(Finished Documentary)
Making the Double Page Spread
I had a rough plan of what to write after analysing the similar media texts. Using a program called ‘Adobe InDesign’ I inserted a background picture to spread my text around. This was a large picture of someone surfing a wave. I used this photo as I thought the colours were bright and it gave the page a neat and stylish look. The mast head was made using fonts downloaded off the internet, giving the double page spread a bit of originality.
For the layout of the page I followed the codes and conventions of many double page spreads in TV listings magazines. The mast head was placed at the top covering the width of the left hand page. I found that white font stood out very well over the light blue background and also matched in very nicely with the theme of the spread. The text underneath and throughout both single pages was also white and in the same font. The use of bold and italic text allowed me to show the audience important pieces of information about the show. After all of the text had been written the pictures were put in place and a thin white border was used to outline then which made them stand out from the background picture. The colours white and blue were used throughout the whole double page spread to ensure that there were no clashing colours and it gives a sea type feel to the double page spread.
As you can see in this picture the name of the show is underneath the mast head is in white bold letters. The four pink lined boxes run down the double page in quarters. These boxes are to ensure that the text is kept in line with each other.
A toolbar down the left hand side of the screen is the location of each different type of tool that you can use.
Once my double page spread had been completed I had to export it as a JPEG like shown below.
To add the paint splodges I opened the JPEG file in a program called ‘Adobe Photoshop’ which allowed me to download paintbrushes giving the page a stylish and finished looking finish. The picture below shows how I inserted the paint splodges.
On the right hand side of the spread a layers tab can be seen. In order to edit each specific part of the page the layer in which the part you are editing must be selected. The paint brush tool on the left hand side is also selected and the brush and brush size are chosen to fit the contents of the page. As I was sticking to the theme of white and blue I chose to make the paint brush a light blue colour. As it was not a main feature of the page this light blue made it camouflage in with the rest of the spread just giving it that extra feel.
Making of the Newspaper Advert
The newspaper advert was the simplest out of the two other tasks to make. I used ‘Adobe Photoshop’ to produce this whole task. The main picture is of a surfer and give the theme of the documentary away just from this first picture. The photo is bright and very eye catching. A gave the advert a black background in order to make the picture stand out even more and as I thought it gave the page a professional look. The mast head was placed at the top left of the page following the codes and convention of many other newspaper documentary/TV adverts. I used the same font and colour for the mast head which gives an audience more chance of remembering the program as the same unique font is used for the mast heads each time. With this mask head I edited two pairs of scissors and placed them either side of the heading like shown below.
The picture of the surfer was dragged and dropped into place. Then using the cropping tool I cropped the picture at an angle to give it a more interesting look. The line tool on the left hand side of the page enabled me to give a white border around the picture at the same gradient of the picture itself. Using the paint bucket tool I selected the colour I wanted to fill behind the picture and the font which I made as black.
I added a new layer and then used the paint brush to make a splattered paint effect like the one used in the double page spread. In order for the paint to not go over the top of the mast head or any other text I placed it behind the text layers making it the paint look like it’ in the background. A statement from a TV listings magazine was used at the top right of the poster helping both media texts interlink, promoting the documentary even more and helping the TV listings magazine to be advertised at the same time. The writing on the page stuck to specific colours again however different some different fonts were used to make the page look more appealing. Some of the font was in red and the rest in white which I found stands out very well against a black background.
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