“Oh GOSH! Reflecting on Hackteria's Collaborative Practices in a Global Do-It...
1) in what way does your media
1. 1) In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. Quotes These are a great way of giving someone's point-of-view when it is hard to get a hold of them. It's common place in documentaries where experts are hard to get a hold of.
3. Title Credits The title credits are key to giving the audience a sense of what's going on. The fact also that I have used the same picture as the poster allows the audience to recognise the show if they miss the beginning.
4. Walking Shot Past Camera The panning camera shot adds movement to the documentary and can be used to give fluidity to the sense.
5. Talking Directly to Camera This is a convention used to let the audience think you are talking to them directly and make them feel they are involved in the documentary and keeps them watching.
6. Rolling Credits Nearly always used at the end of any BBC show, not just documentaries. Keeps the conventions of not only the genre, but the channel as well.
7. Zoom Shot of Still Picture This is a common technique used in a lot of documentaries as it is more impactful on the audience and creates a strong, emotive atmosphere.
8. Video Montage A video Montague is not used a lot in BBC 3 documentaries due to its lack of relevance to most of the topics they cover, but since this was meant to be one of their more serious outings I felt it would work to show contrast between what is classed as a "normal" game, and what is a "gory" game.
9. Dramatisations/Music A key feature of documentaries that allows the audience to experience what can or has happened in a certain situation without actually taking part, giving a greater scope to the show.
10. Closing Statement to Camera This summing up of the details is used in serious, rather detailed documentaries. Although mine is only 5 minutes long I would like it, if made full length, to take this angle.
11. Anonymous Interview These interview, shot with a filter over the person is a convention I strongly wanted to use so the documentary could become more personal and seem more real, which is the way it is usually used.
