Critical reflection question 1

1. TOM ROBERTS
CRITICAL REFLECTION 1

2. How do your products use or challenge
conventions and how do they represent
social groups or issues?

3. HOW DO YOUR PRODUCTS
USE OR CHALLENGE
CONVENTIONS?

4. MY GENRE OF DOCUMENTARY
CONTRIBUTOR EXPOSITORYIMPRESSIONISTIC
OBSERVATIONAL REFLEXIVE
FASHION AND I
HYBRID DOCUMENTARY

5. TYPICAL DOCUMENTARY FILMING
TECHNIQUES
MINE
VOICE OVER
DIRECT AND INDIRECT
INTERVIEWS
ACHIVE FOOTAGE
RE-ANACTMENT
MONTAGE
EXPOSITION
SOUND BRIDGE
DIRECT AND
INDIRECT
INTERVIEWS
ACHIVE FOOTAGE
MONTAGE
EXPOSITION
Common techniques
This is allowing my product to be a “safe media product”

6. CONVENTIONS OF AN EXPOSITORY DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWED
TYPICALLY ADDRESSES THE SPECTATORS
peak directly to the viewer, often in the form of an authoritative commentary employing voi

8. Other common
conventions
archive footage- this is important to give the audience an exact feeling of
what the topic is and what happened.

9. “Sound bridges”
“cutaways.”Cutaway - Makes the scene look real and
a movement to be in one motion in different angles,
allows the viewer to get a real understanding of the
topic they are discussing.
Soundbridge, useful when involving an interview, audience are im
Cutaway

10. diegetic sound- sound of studio
creates atmosphere to put the viewer
in a more realistic perspective.
Diegetic sound

11. depth of field, allowing the main topic to be in focus
and others blurred, allowing the audience to be
drawn to this specific item/character.
Depth of field

12. Interviews-Interviews are a key element of
Documentaries, they bring the story together,
usually Talking heads/Interviews with
eyewitnesses, experts and persons related.
Interviews.

13. non dietetic sound, the mellow soundtrack
allows an atmosphere and the sound allows
the viewer to feel something that relates to the
topic.

14. WEBSITE CONVENTIONS
USED
Tool bar, main navigation, link navagtion, button
functionality, standard Icons, visual hierarchy and logo
placement.

15. Main navigation
This is an
example of what
main navigation
looks like.
This is mine I followed the key
conventions and made it as
simple as possible for the user.

16. Link navigation
Web navigation refers to the process
of navigating a network of information
resources in the World Wide Web,
which is organized as hypertext or
hypermedia. The user interface that is
used to do so is called a web browser.

17. Icons
It is incredibly
important to have
icons in a website.
This is my website of links to the
social media, I have used this as
a type of promotion

18. Gallery
To show the documentary
and the work that the
designers have done is a key
part, I have done this to
interest the potential viewer.
This is another gallery
from a fashion
documentary.

19. Logo placement
Users are 89% more likely to remember
logos shown in the traditional top-left than
placed on the right. ... The logo serves as a
landmark that orients users when they first
land on a page and helps them identify the
page they are visiting.

20. Visual hierarchy.
Visual hierarchy-is the order in which a user
processes information on a page; its function in user
interface design is to allow users to understand
information easily.

21. POSTER CONVENTIONS
title, awards, characters, focal point, tag line, release
date, eye catching and defines the films genre.

22. Release date
Every poster should or
does have a release
date to make the
potential customer
aware of when the film
is available.
This is mine

23. Reviews
e important to put in so you can show off to the public that it has been rated by industry pro

24. Characters
he potential viewer to see who is in the film or if they kno

25. Tag line
Tag line-A tag line is a short phrase which the view
can remember.
This specifically
is controversial
hence why it
challenges
conventions

26. Credits
w people who has featured, filmed, produced or even makeup so they can see if any well kn

27. Conclusion
The conclusion is that my media products (poster website and film),
mixes conventions however is controversial. This was intentional as I
wanted to produce three products that were innovate and unique to me
and reflected me. Some of the reasons of why my products of why my
product doesn’t follow the conventions are that my products website is
centrally placed this is because I prefer this look and idea and the name
reflects social groups and issues. Overall I do believe that my product is
niche and it reflects social groups by the name and by the tag line.