Guardain Statistics

I aim use different techniques to illustrate statistics within my documentary to provide an informative sense to my documentary, however finding ways to present information in a creative and eye catching way has posed to be a challenge. I have decided to use this clip below which is of a statistic which I retrieved from an article in the guardian.

I have used 20 students from my year who are applying to university and I have taken the statistic and used the students as a visual aid to display just how the increase in tuition fees will decrease those accepted to university.

 



Documentary Opening.

This clip below is the news reader which I aim to use as not only in instant opening of my documentary but also to highlight the main aim and argument of my production.

I have decided to only use the section commencing 2 seconds into the clip which finished at 10 seconds, as it is the perfect and slightly unconventional opening to my documentary.



This library footage clip however is largely unusable due to the lack of sound and image quality, but it provided me with a sense of what I should include in my documentary.

Analysis Of My Polls.

Analysing my polls has provided me with a clear indication on what I need to include within both my final documentary and my ancillary texts in order to appeal to the majority of my audience. In addition it has shown me who my peers feel about university and how the increase in tuition fees has/hasn’t affected their decision.



Do you think the increase in University Fees is fair?

Only 17% of those who voted on my polls felt that the increase in tuition fees was fair leaving 79% strongly supporting them being unfair and only 1% being unsure of their views on the tuition fees.

Has the increase in tuition fees left you concerned about getting into university?

Shockingly 5% of those who took my online poll said that they wanted to go to university but now simply cannot afford it, this is a shocking statistics as it highlights just how seriously the increase in tuition fees is affecting students lives. However my poll does also illustrate how 32% answered that the increase in fees has not left them concerned about their place at university which provides a counter argument for my documentary.

What do you want within a documentary?

The two most popular responses on my polls in answer to what my target audience want within a documentary were 62% wanting a creative and informative approach in addition to 31% ideally wanting a straight forward and to the point approach. Therefore in response to my audience research I will attempt to find the perfect equilibrium between to two making a documentary that will hopefully appeal to the mass of my target audience.

Money Sequence

This is a clip which I have included in my final documentary; I have created this clip using a series of still images which I have taken of different amounts of money. The aim of this sequence is to act as a visual aid to my telephone conversation with Sam Middlewood, the head of Brunel University Student Union. I have made the sequence of money slowing decreasing to illustrate that for students money doesn't last long and that the increase in fees will mean a decrease in money for the students.

Ancillary Text Newspaper Ad

This is my first attempt at my newpaper advert however I found it turned more into an article rather than an advert. This photo has too much background space which ruins the composition of my overall piece, also the text down the side is far too long and not eye catching enough to grab the attention of my audience.

Images for Ancillary Text

This is the image i have decided to use as a basis for my newspaper advert ancillary text, i have used money over the top of my work to visually represent just how much it will cost students just to gain a decent education.



Statistics On Fees & Graduate Unemployment

These are some more statistics which I have found to hopefully use in my documentary:

The figures showed that graduate unemployment had risen faster - from 10.6% to 20%

One in five UK university leavers who entered the labour market failed to find a job last year, as graduate unemployment reached its highest level since
1995, government figures show.

One in six said they would not have gone to university if they had known how tough the jobs market was going to be, the research by High Fliers found.

Nearly half (45%) of final-year students at the UK's top universities view their career prospects as "very limited", a survey suggests.