3. Conventions of TV Documentaries
Convention What is it/ Why its used?
Archival Footage and Photographs •‘Old’ images
• Newsreel footage
• Shots from fiction films.
Talking head • In their own environment- occupational/home
“interviewees” • Sometimes on the road.
• This is used for people views and interpretations on different ideas.
Jiggly Camera • Form of re-enforcing documentary reality.
Voice over narration • Usually occurs to explain an image or what is going on in the scene
Re-enactments • Stages real event that has already happened.
• Most of the time it uses actors and not the original characters.
Montage/Sequence • It conveys ideas visually by putting them in a specific order in the film.
• Narrative montages involve the planning of sequence of shots used to
indicate changes in time and place. Ideational montages link actions
with words, and are often used in documentaries.
• This visual representation of the characters thoughts helps position
the viewer in the story, and helps the viewer better understand what
the character is saying
4. Conventions developed.
Fonts We are using fonts of
popular fast food
restaurants and
supermarkets for our titles.
Archival Instead of archival footage
Footage/Photographs we have used archival
photos as we do not have
the resources to obtain the
videos.
Voice Over Narration Our narrator/voice of God
will be taking part in the
experiment.
Montage/Sequence We will use montage to
reiterate what the voiceover
will be stating. The montage
will also allow us to show
the experiment to prove our
theory.
5. Conventions Challenged
Before: After:
We are challenging the stereotype of a
presenter, by having it be a black girl, not white
and someone who is young instead of middle
aged.
The voiceovers are viewed as the voice of God and The voiceovers will also be the interviewee,
are not mixed with the interviewees. therefore they will be taking part and also looking
at it from an outside perspective.
8. This is how we presented our first 5 minutes with a
breakdown of what the colours represent on a slide
before.
RIANNA
9. This is how we presented our first 5 minutes with a breakdown of what
the colours represent on a slide before. RIANNA
10. What we did next?
• We spoke with our teacher and understood
we needed to break down our ideas more.
• As a group we brainstormed more and ended
up with new episodes.
• On the following slides are some of our
brainstorms.
RIANNA
12. Information
• Series name: Food for thought (possible title)
• Series length: 3 hours
• Number of episodes: 3
• Episode length: 60 minutes
• Episode names (in order): 1st Ideologies 2nd
Advertising 3rd Capitalism
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13. Episode 1 Ideologies
Subtopic break down
1.) 2.) Sexuality 3.) Presentation of models
Stereotype/Representatio and food
n of food
• Exploring which foods • Exploring what foods • Why is unhealthy food
are seen as fun/boring are sexualized modelled by healthy
and why? E.g. potatoes • How are food sexualized looking people
and chocolates (using e.g the M&S adverts • Why don’t we see the
kids to demonstrate • Reasons behind true representation
this) companies making food • How does this effect the
• Look for the common seem sexy public
factor with the • Products which
fun/boring foods and challenge the idea of
why/how? sexualized e.g the MALE
• What products in aero adverts
challenge this idea?
How E.g. Kellogs Special
K is ‘sexy’ when its
flakes
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14. Episode 2 Advertising
Subtopic break down
1.) Company image 2.) Celebrities 3.) Dream vs Reality
(presentation of food)
• Which adverts are • What celebrities are • British ideal of
more family with what chicken, showing the
friendly/sexy/funny/s supermarket? public a picture of
tore orientated etc Reasons why? cooked chicken and a
• What does each • The connotations advert ‘cooked’
advert tell us about employing each celeb chicken to see what
the store means for the store they pick, why?
• Exploring how • How do celebrities • How is this ideal
celebrities enhance relate to customers made, can we all
company image, do e.g stacey solomon – achieve it as some
they? young mothers ? adverts imply
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15. Episode 3 Capitalism
Subtopic break down
1.) Company information 2.) Sponsorships & 3.) Deals within store (linked to
endorsements advertising)
• Research into the big • What does X celebrity • Do the deals make us
players in the food market being with X store/shop spend more? 3 for 2 when
• Statistics on annual mean for the customer we only needed one?
takings – looking at what • Are sponsorships made • Is the blatant recent
demographic spends with record labels for competitiveness between
more, where they spend examples to coincide with supermarkets good or
more (fruit/alcohol/etc) an album release bad?
• Are the prices fair and • Weird sponsorships – • Are we being tricked?
relative McDONALDS – OLYMPICS Prices being raised higher
• EXAMPLE: if KFC and • Should fast food be 2wks before to be
SAMS get their meat from associated with the ‘lowered’ when they were
the same place why is biggest sporting event cheaper 3wks ago?
there such a big difference ever? • Are we now buying for no
in cost? reason?
• Deals to good to be true?
– sell by dates etc
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16. Information on the 5 minutes
• Taken from which episode? Episode 1 –
Subtopic 2
• Brief reason why? – As a group we wanted to
ascertain why food is being sexualised and
opinion on it
• Continued on next slide
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17. What do you hope the audience will gain from the 5
minutes?
• Rianna: An understanding that food is sexualised
for us to be more attracted to it and in turn buy
more.
• Tiara: insight to how products are advertised and
why
• Shahna: more knowledge on sexualisation and
showing them differing opinions on it
• Nkechi: make the audience aware of techniques
use to glamourize (in reference to food)
18. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• Montage shots of hyper sexualised food
• Voiceover while this is happening
• Mid shot of the presenter talking
• Cross back to the montage shots
• Voiceover again
• Cut to statistics about food expenditure on
average/family case study on how the
economic climate has effected their spending
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19. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• Presenter introduces the store we will be
focusing on
• Presenter questions the public ‘describe
Marks & Spencer in 3 words’
• We see 3/4 groups of people answer
• Statistics and information on the store
• Presenter shows what we are now buying
more of and less of (relation to our economic
climate)
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20. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• Presenter tells the audience that we are still
our there shopping so what is it down to?
• Have peoples reactions to some M&S adverts
• The audience do not see the advert, just the
reaction to it
• Set up of an old style kitchen and presenter
questions how food and cooking has gone
from the set up shown to being described as
this
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21. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• * this being the public opinion of what Marks
and Spencer is like
• * the set up will be cuts of cake mix being
whisked/full baking tin put in the oven/cake
cooking/being taken out/decorated/sliced
• What we are hoping to show next is from a
member of the public a negative opinion of
how sexy the adverts/food has become
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22. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• * this being the public opinion of what Marks
and Spencer is like
• * the set up will be cuts of cake mix being
whisked/full baking tin put in the oven/cake
cooking/being taken out/decorated/sliced
• What we are hoping to show next is from a
member of the public a negative opinion of
how sexy the adverts/food has become
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23. Details of the 5 minutes
what will happen
• Present our own findings from the public
• This part is mainly voiceover heavy with props
showing our results and Voice of Authority saying
the questions
• These results will then lead up to question
experts.
• So far in mind we have sociologists/possibly M&S
worker/manager/student who studies
gastronomy/Chef/food tech teacher
• Ending on Presentation of models and food
introduction
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24. Preview of next
Introduction of subtopic topic – C. 20
– nearly 1min seconds
Introduction – nearly 2mins Development of subtopic – nearly 2mins
25. • Montage shots of hyper sexualised food
• Mid shot of the presenter talking about hyper
sexualised food
• Cross back to the montage shots
• Statistics
26. • Presenter introduces the store we will be
focusing on
• Public opinion on Marks and Spencer
• Statistics on the store
• Reaction to Marks and Spencer adverts from
‘actors’
• Set up in kitchen to question the change in
food representation
27. • Public opinion of Marks and Spencer’s adverts
positive and negative
• Present findings from our own case study
• These results will then lead up to question
experts.
• So far in mind we have sociologists/possibly
M&S worker/manager/student who studies
gastronomy/Chef/food tech teacher
28. • Voiceover asking why are products like this
being advertised by the attractive healthy
model if it makes you like this
• Clips of the male Abercrombie and Fitch
models
• Clips of falling chocolate
• Clips of ‘large’ people walking
