My research for my Factual college project

1. FACTUAL RESEARCH.
BENJAMIN LAWRENSON

2. The 6 Different Types Of Documentaries.
There are 6 different types of documentaries that I could possibly do for this product. These are:
1. Poetic mode: A poetic documentary eschews linear continuity in favour of mood, tone, or the
juxtaposition of imagery. Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia is an example of a poetic documentary that focuses
on visuals and artistic style to help reveal an inner truth.
2. Expository mode: Expository documentaries set up a specific point of view or argument about a subject
and often feature “voice of God” style voice-over. For expository documentaries, the cinematographer is
responsible for collecting footage that supports and strengthens the spoken argument of the film,
including stock footage, archival footage, b-roll, or re-enactments of historical events.
3. Participatory mode: Participatory documentaries are defined by the interaction between the
documentary filmmakers and their subject. Therefore, a cinematographer is equally responsible for
capturing the interviewer as he is the interviewee. Participatory documentaries, also known as interactive
documentaries, often present the filmmaker’s version of the truth as “the” truth, focusing on direct
engagement with subjects and capturing real emotional responses and interactions. Many of the
interactions that are captured support the filmmaker’s point of view or prove the film’s intent.

3. The 6 Different Types Of Documentaries.
4. Observational mode: A style of documentary embraced by the cinema verité movement, observational documentaries attempt
to discover the ultimate truth of their subject by acting as a fly-on-the-wall—in other words, observing the subject’s real-life without
interrupting. Cinematographers on observational documentaries will often be asked to be as unobtrusive as possible in order to
capture their subjects in a raw, unguarded state.
5. Reflexive mode: Reflexive documentaries focus on the relationship between the filmmaker and the audience. Since the subject
matter is often the process of documentary filmmaking itself, a cinematographer will shoot behind-the-scenes style footage of the
entire film production process, including editing, interviewing, and post-production.
6. Performative mode: Performative documentaries focus on the filmmaker’s involvement with their subject, using his or her personal
experience or relationship with the subject as a jumping-off point for exploring larger, subjective truths about politics, history, or
groups of people. A cinematographer is often asked to capture the documentary production process, as well as intimate footage
that illustrates the direct and often personal relationship between filmmaker and subject.
After researching and assessing the different types of documentaries, I have decided that the I will want to research expository
styled existing products. This is because this style will fit the idea of my documentary better. I also find that this style of documentary
interests me more which will allow me to use myself as a form of primary research due to knowing who that I will come under my
primary audience.
Finally, this style of documentary includes stock footage and b-roll which both is easy for me to get and it also allows me to break
up scenes and subtopics with small transitions shots. I can also use these shots for any voice overs that I might have planned.

4. Released dangers and secret of the internet.
Over years there have been many disasters on the internet such as hacked social media and
websites.
Hacked social medias:
Event- Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts hacked
Group- OurMine
Date- February the 7th 2020
Event- #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Group- Anonymous
Data- May the 28Th 2020

5. Released dangers and secret of the internet.
These two groups hacked into different kinds of services on the internet. The group ’OurMine’
hacked into both Facebook, twitter and Instagram account, allowing them to steal people's personal
data and causing all three to temporally shut down costing them thousands. This is one of the big
dangers I see on social media. The group quoted on Facebooks account ‘Hi we are Our Mine. Well,
even Facebook is hackable but at least its security is better than twitters’. This was a taunt which
allowed people to know that they have been hacked.
The group anonymous hacked in a different sort of way. They hacked and gathered information
about the killing of George Floyd and used this to blackmail/ threaten the police that they will
release the video that they have. This is a different type of hack but is still the same that there
where able to hack and gather information from people's phones/social media about the subject.
These two subjects are the type of information that I would want to discover in my project. This is
because I find it interesting and important for people to know about.

6. The power of privacy is a documentary about modern threats
to privacy. It briefly covers the history of privacy, showing
how we got to the present day, in terms of technology and
human behaviour. I really like this documentary for many
reasons. Firstly the topic, I find it to be really interesting and
something that lots of people either don’t know about or don’t take any interest in. I like their style of the way they set
different task out in different points. Such as being online stalked, hacked and trying to get leaked documents back. I
also like their style of telling us al of this before the documentary start. This grips the audience from the start. This
would be something that I try to have in my documentary to make it interesting and descriptive at the start to hook the
audience and inform them from the get go. This documentary uses different forms of visuals. They use animated cartoon
to illustrate what they are saying this is creative and a easy way to show what they are saying without having to film or
set up in a location. They also use lot of interviews to get information from people. If possible I will want to try get
some interviews, either public or set up. I like their style of having interviews pre set up as they look a lot more
professional. This way, I they can also plan what will happen in the interview. Lastly, with the interview pre set up, they
can decide on different angles for the cameras to be set up in. The combination of these two types of footages work
well together to separate different scenes and topics. It breaks the video up and keeps the audience focused on what’s
being said. The last type of footage they have is b-roll which they insert on top of voiceovers and in between shots and
scenes.
Existing Product- The Power Of Privacy

7. The Netflix documentary ‘The Great Hack’ focuses on social
media and the data that your building up. It focuses on the
privacy that people actually have online and how all you online
movements make a database about yourself. I like this
documentary as it makes you think about what data people could get about you if any of your social
medias got hacked into. I like this documentary’s style of being factual tell people information such as
personal data being more valuable than oil. This is the kind of data I would want to tell people in my
documentary as then it is an eye opener and will make people rethink how much of there data they put
online. This documentary has a mix of interviews, b-roll and still which work well together. I like this style as
it keeps the focus on what is important. They include narration which I find makes it more interesting so there
isn’t lots of face to camera scenes and so that they can use b-roll to add illustrations to match what they are
saying. I'm looking at this documentary as it shows me things that I didn’t know about the internet. It gives
me information of how people can get your information and what is most at risk. They also use a mix of
interviews and voice overs, which is a convention that I will try use as it helps to break up the video.
Existing Product- The Great Hack

8. The documentary ‘Terms And Conditions May Apply ’ focuses
on things that you accept online that you don’t necessarily
know about. Terms And Conditions May Apply examines the
cost of so-called 'free' services and the continuing
disappearance of online privacy. People may think they know
what they give up when they click 'I Agree' on companies like Facebook and Google. This part of
information for my documentary would be a big part that I would want to focus on as you could be
agreeing to anything. For this I could set up a Facebook, read the terms and conditions to see if there is
anything you wouldn’t normally want anyone to have access to. This kind of documentary takes my interest
more as it has some humour elements to it which break up the documentary from the serious parts, helping
the audience to keep entertained, focused and educated. Finally, I chose this product to research as it is
firstly an easily accessible documentary on YouTube, which is what I intend. It is also clear what it is on
about and their illustrations are creative and engaging. They also use a mix of interviews and voice overs,
which is a convention that I will try use as it helps to break up the video.
Existing Product- Terms And Conditions May Apply

9. The documentary ‘The effects of social media’ is a short documentary
focusing on how social media has effects the lives of the maker of
the short documentary and people that he interview. This creator
uses a different type of interview style. As this is a less professional
product the creator doesn’t have as much equipment. They use lots of interviews with only one angle. This is
simple but effective, this gives the person being interview a specific angle to look towards. This
documentary has a style where you can hear them ask a question to the first person then have an overlay
where all the people answer it one after another. This is a style and convention that I really like and works
well. I have chosen this documentary specifically because it is short. This allowed me to see how other
creators got all their information into the documentary in a short space of time. I also chose this short
documentary as they have also used techniques and styles which I find interesting and that give me
inspiration to collaborate into my product. Finally, I chose this documentary as it is the closets form of
product that I will be making. The other documentary's I have researched are long or in series for Netflix or
national television, whereas this is short and for YouTube which is what I will be aiming for mine which will
allow me to see how they have portrayed it and set it out.
Existing Product- The Effects Of Social Media

10. Research summary:
In summary, I have researched products that are mainly all about the internet, social medias
and the dangers that they are hiding in plane site. I feel that this is a interesting and important
topic that I would love to explore into more. Researching these products I have been able to
gather new ideas for subtopics to research into, different things to include such as b-roll. I
have also realised which style of interview interview. I would prefer the interview to be set up
with different camera angle than to be in public. This is so that the interview is more
controlled and that I know the people I am interviewing a bit more.
The most/all of the existing products use interviews in some way or form. This is done via a
voice over/call or a face to face interview. This a big inspiration for my product. This will be a
key part which I can use to ask people a chosen question to get information to inform or build
data for a point.

11. Research summary:
I have also learnt about the dangers that the internet have. Having to much information about
yourself creates a social databank about yourself. This is built up of anything you do online
such as Facebook and Instagram posts, YouTube videos, online reviews and many more. If
someone hacked into your data bank then they can steal all of this data about you. From this
they can start profiling you to sell to other hackers.
Peoples online personal data has been ranked more valuable then oil. This is shocking to say
as oil is one of the worlds most valuable resources. Personally I find this to be uncomfortable
to know that my information is out there making people money and being built in a data bank

12. Bibliography:
• BBC (2020) Our Mine - Website
• Carrie budge(2016) The Power of Privacy- Documentary
• Cullen Hoback (2013) Terms and conditions may apply- Documentary
• Jezza Visuals (2019) The effects of social media- Short documentary
• Karim Amer (2019) The Great Hack – Documentary
• Master Class (2020) 6 Different Types Of Documentaries –Website
• Wikipedia (2020) Anonymous- Website.