1. In what ways foes your media
product use develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. A roll Footage
In our documentary we followed the convention of the rule of thirds when interviewing people, where the persons
eye line is a quarter of the way down the screen to one side looking into the negative space and not at the camera.
We used a tripod for a still camera image which also conveys real media documentaries. The questions that were
asked by us were edited out and the interviewee said them back in their answer which also follows conventions. In
one of our interviews we had the background noise of the café as well as the ember of staff talking, this was so that it
feels very real to the audience. We used a medium shot when doing out interviews to the mise on scene was in the
background of the shot and was related to the theme of the documentary for example we have interviewed home
cooks in their kitchens expressing home cooking. All the mise en scene that we have used reflects the topic of the
documentary. Also we used different framing for the interviews, e.g. the interviewees are of different sides of the
screen. We also followed the conventions of having graphics on the screen showing the audience the names of the
interviewees and also the graphics were shown on the screen for 5 seconds. We did not use the blue screen for our
documentary as we thought that it wasn’t needed for the type of documentary we were making and it wouldn’t be
useful to us.

3. B roll Footage
In our documentary we have used cutaway shots which have been inserted
to interview footage to show what the interviewee is talking about. We
have used a montage of cutaways at the beginning while the voice over is
speaking so the audience can see what the documentary is about. The
cutaways that we have used all relate to either takeaways or home cooking
depending on what the voice over or interviews are saying. An example
would be when Kathy is being interviewed in her kitchen and then the
camera cuts to a cut away of home cooking while she is still talking, the
cutaway is on for a few seconds and then it cuts back to her interview. This
make it more visual for the audience so they can see what type of food she
is cooking.

4. We also used an establishing shot which conveys
real media products, we used it for the takeaway
sandwich shop ‘Saffy’s’ we used the establishing
shot to show where the camera was going next, this
also conveys real media products, the audience
then know what is going on in the clip. After the
establishing shot the camera cuts inside the shop to
an interview of a member of staff.
What also conveys a real media product is a voice over, which we did use in our documentary to tell the
audience statistics and explains the results from our questionnaire for the target audience research and also
what was is happening in the documentary so the audience knows exactly what is going on. We chose
someone that we thought had a good recording voice and that would be clear. We used a sound track of
‘Food Glorious Food’ from the film Oliver as we thought it was significant as our documentary is about food
and cooking.
Music
Soundtrack

5. We did not feel the need to have archive footage in our
documentary as we had the still images and the voice over for the
facts and statistics, also we had enough footage of our own to
use. We also did not have any vox pops in the 5 minutes of the
documentary but we planned it in the running order for after the
first 5 minutes. We didn’t have a presenter in the documentary
we just had a voice over for the viewers understanding. We used
still photographs from our questionnaire results showing the
audience the statistics of what the general public said.
Still Image
Voice over