Question 3

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

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Code/Convention. How I plan to use or avoid it.
Narration I used narration throughout as I had to convey a message about divorce
rates in the UK in order for my documentary to make sense.
Interview I thought it would be best that the interviews I put in are with people who
have a knowledge of the topic, so that is why I asked my Grandma if she
could be interviewed and why I asked Mike as he went through a divorce.
Reconstructions I had an idea to reconstruct the first time my Grandparents first met with the
song that they first danced to. However due to timing I couldn’t fit it in in the
5 minutes I had.
Camera type I used a handheld camera for the interviews to ease the filming process and
mobility.
I used the XF100 to film the archive footage.
Fly-on-the-Wall I was going to film my Grandma sat watching the old footage of her life
while possibly making some comments on some of the videos.
Cinema verite I will be influencing what the interviewees talk about as I will be asking
questions behind the camera, as I will also need to set the scene.
Stereotype/Simplification No stereotypes.
Archive footage I really wanted to be able to play with the audiences emotions, so I thought
it would good if I added in old videos of my Grandparents and their children
growing up to really show the audience what life was like back in the 1960s
onwards.