Our documentary follows the codes and conventions of professional documentaries by using a mixed style with interviews, narration, archive footage and cutaways. It focuses on the single topic of healthy eating through themes of cooking, shopping, exercising and meal planning. We included simple graphics positioned unobtrusively and used mise-en-scene with backgrounds and clothing relevant to health to reinforce the messages of interviews, mirroring other documentaries like "Supersize Me". Cutaways and creative camerawork like panning and zooming were used to maintain audience interest and remove jump cuts. Our print ad and radio trailer also adopted the styles of real media to promote the documentary.

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

2. The Documentary that we made is a
mixed documentary this is because it
contains many observations from Archive
footage, Cutaways, Interviews and a voice
over with a narrator. This is also mirrored
by other professional documentaries such
as “supersize me” as this documentary is
about obesity and staying healthy and
includes a combination of Interviews and
narrations which is what we have tried to
follow.

3. All Documentaries have their own unique style which delivers
content to the audience and is defined what it features. Our
Documentary features themes that are relevant to our subject
matter which is Healthy Eating. For example our Documentary
includes Cooking, Shopping, Exercising and meal planning. It
has a single stranded storyline as it follows one particular
subject and the industry around it. Most documentary can be
single stranded but often have a variety of different themes
running through out.

4. In our documentary we followed the codes and conventions
of a professional documentary as we included graphics.
When using these graphics we made sure that they were
simple and contained little visual Detail, in order for them
not to take any focus away from our interviewee. The
graphics used in our documentary are positioned in the
bottom corner on the opposite side of the interviewee the
type of font we used was Adobe Arabic, and the font style is
regular. The title was 160.0 and the subtitle was the same
family and style but the sixe was 110.0 .Having graphics
anchors who they are and how they are related to the topic.
Here being a general practitioner.

5. The mise-en-scene of our documentary uses the codes and
conventions as the background and clothing links and relates
to the topic or is involved of the topic of Healthy eating as it
would be seen in a professional documentary. This is an
important convention to follow as it helps to anchor the
meaning between what is being said and the role that the
interviewee plays in the documentary for example in
supersize me there is an interview with a GP and in the
background you can see the doctors room and has a
stethoscope around his/her neck so in our documentary we
have tried to mirror this and have done the exact same thing
to make it look as professional. This shows the location of a
doctors which relates to the theme of health and wellbeing.

6. Cutaways are another way in which our documentary has
used the codes and conventions as they help to make the
documentary look more professional as they can be used to
remove any jump cuts. We also used cutaways to reinforce
what is being spoken about as they can link to the topic,
making them relevant. Also using cutaways in our
documentary helped to keep our audience entertained as just
watching an interview without any cutaways or anything to
watch might make them loose there focus.

7. The editing of our documentary follows the codes and conventions by only using
cuts by expanding and condensing images and clips. We also used creative camera
work like other professional documentaries as this is an essential factor when
making your documentary look more interesting. We used shots like Panning and
zoom in and zoom out. So it looks more exciting with the audience we also made
sure that when using the rule of third are audience where looking diagonally to the
interviewee rather than looking at the camera like other professional
documentaries

8. For our print advert we also made sure this followed all of the codes and
conventions for a professional print advert when creating this we tried to mirror it
up to a channel four print advert. We followed the same gestures and used the
same dynamics. Making sure we followed what they had done using a short cover
line and information including the date title and time
When creating our radio trailer we also had to ensure we where doing the same
thing to challenge real media product we had to make sure we had a sound bed,
sound bites and lastly a voice over to make sure the radio trailer matched up to the
documentary and print advert.