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

2. Documentary
After looking at various examples of professional
documentaries such as ‘The Devil Made Me Do It’, ‘The Amy
Macdonald Story’ and ‘The Music Biz’, We looked at the
codes and convention in which I then followed when
creating my own documentary.
Our group followed the codes and conventions of a typical mixed
documentary. It contained a narrator, archive footage and a variety of
interviews.

3. Editing
Following the codes and
conventions of a
documentary, we cut all
the questions out
leaving just the
interviewee's answers.
Similar to professional
documentaries the most
common edit we used
was a cut resulting in
the audience not being
distracted by what is
being said by the
interviewees.

4. Voiceover
The use of a male voiceover relates to the topic. The age of
the male voiceover is relevant to the target audience of 18
years upwards. Typical to a documentary, the voiceover is
spoken in standard English, is clear and is calm.
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5. Cutaways And Actuality Footage
Throughout our documentary, we follow the codes and
conventions by using a varied amount of cutaways and
actuality footage that is relevant to the topic.
Examples From Our Documentary Examples From Professional Documentary
As with professional
documentaries, a sound
bed accompanies the
visuals in between
interviews

7. Mise-en-scene
The mise-en-scene of the interviews are relevant to the documentary
topic and the interviewee as well. An example of this being the tattoo
artists interviews were undertaken at their tattoo studio’s.
Both the
professional
documentaries
and the
documentary our
group created
have relevant
mise-en-scene.

8. Graphics
The graphics anchor who the person is giving the audience information
on what their name is and what their occupation is. The graphics used in
our documentary follows the codes and conventions as they are only 2
lines and are simple, therefore not distracting the audience from the
interview itself. The graphics are on the opposite side to the interviewee.
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9. Interviews
Interviewee is always framed either to the left or to the right either in
medium close up or close up…
Like professional documentaries, the interviewee doesn’t look at the
camera but at the interviewer…
…with their
eye line in the
top third of
the screen.

10. All interviewees are seated in an ‘immovable’ chair…

11. Newspaper Advertisement

12. Following the codes and conventions, both
channel logo’s are on the right hand side of the
advertisement. This allows the audience to know
what channel the documentary is on.
Our
Professional Advert
Both have a block of colour behind the writing,
scheduling information is given with name of
programme. Both of the slogans anchor the meaning of
the main image and is in the largest font.

13. Both have only one sticking image, this grabs the audience’s
attention making them want to know more about the documentary
Our
Advert
A simple colour scheme is used, consisting of 3 or 4
colours.

14. Radio Trailer
Similar to professional radio trailers, the radio trailer our group created
contains sound clips from the documentary…
…Click to play example…
The script we created followed the codes and conventions by using
direct address, gives the audience information on the programme and is
entertaining…

15. Both a music bed (instrumental) and voiceover is used where
appropriate. The narrator gives the audience more information on the
documentary pushing the narrative forward
The radio trailer ends with the scheduling information, name of
programme, slogan with the channel name being mentioned last…
…Click to play example…