This document provides details about a student's media coursework project creating a documentary about smoking. It discusses the decision to focus on smoking given its health impacts. The target audience is identified as 16-26 year olds from socioeconomic classes B, C1, and C2 to be aired on BBC Three at 8:00 PM. The documentary will utilize common documentary conventions like voiceovers, interviews, archive footage, and establishing shots. Montage and exposition techniques will be employed to introduce themes and maintain viewer interest.
The document discusses how the student's media documentary followed conventions of real documentaries. It used proper framing of interviews, title sequences, graphics, cutaways, voiceovers, and sense of movement between scenes. While mostly adhering to codes, it had some anomalies like two sets of vox pops and a female voiceover. Overall, the documentary used documentary conventions to feel professional without challenging established forms.
The document discusses the evaluation of a media student's documentary project. It describes how the student researched conventions of documentaries like Super Size Me to inform their own documentary. They analyzed techniques like camera shots, voiceovers, and interviews. They also created an accompanying radio trailer and magazine spread. Feedback showed the reconstruction scene was effective but the magazine design could have been more engaging. Overall, the student learned how audience research and applying documentary conventions helped the project, but their magazine design may have benefited from more work.
The student created a 5-minute opening for a documentary about underage binge drinking. They also created two ancillary texts - a double page magazine spread and a radio trailer. Feedback from the target audience showed that the documentary reconstruction was successful and shocking. Audience research before production informed choices like using real footage, statistics, and broadcasting on Channel 4. While the double page spread design limited its appeal, images from the documentary helped link it. Overall, the combination of products informed the audience and raised awareness of the topic as intended.
The media product uses conventions of the expository documentary genre, including a voiceover presenting facts, archived footage, and interviews. It is similar to investigative documentaries in the Dispatches series. A variety of shots and angles are used to illustrate points and maintain interest. The combination of the documentary and advertising materials is effective at appealing to both younger and older audiences given the topic of CCTV in schools.
The document discusses the conventions used in the student's documentary and radio trailer project. It examines how they employed typical documentary conventions like voiceovers, interviews, titles/captions, and stock footage. It also analyzed their radio trailer based on conventions from existing radio programs, such as using intro music/sounds to set the topic and a voiceover to convey information. The student aimed to follow real conventions to make their media products seem professional while utilizing the forms and styles of documentary films and radio programs.
Levi Hodge created a five minute documentary called "Breakthrough Mentoring" as part of his Advanced Portfolio. He researched observational and expository documentaries to learn conventions like voiceovers, interviews, and archive footage. Levi interviewed mentors and mentees from Breakthrough Mentoring, which provides support to young people. He filmed interviews using professional equipment and included archive footage from a news story about his own experiences with mentoring. Levi took photos to make his documentary more engaging and narrated parts himself. His documentary aimed to show how mentoring services can help young people through challenges.
The document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media forms and products. Specifically, it examines how the creator's magazine covers elements found in music magazines like Kerrang!, such as headers, plugs, mastheads, barcodes, pull quotes, fonts, and photography style. The document provides examples of how the creator incorporated these elements into their magazine cover and contents page while putting their own unique spin on them and challenging stereotypes around rock music.
This document provides details about a student's media coursework project creating a documentary about smoking. It discusses the decision to focus on smoking given its health impacts. The target audience is identified as 16-26 year olds from socioeconomic classes B, C1, and C2 to be aired on BBC Three at 8:00 PM. The documentary will utilize common documentary conventions like voiceovers, interviews, archive footage, and establishing shots. Montage and exposition techniques will be employed to introduce themes and maintain viewer interest.
The document discusses how the student's media documentary followed conventions of real documentaries. It used proper framing of interviews, title sequences, graphics, cutaways, voiceovers, and sense of movement between scenes. While mostly adhering to codes, it had some anomalies like two sets of vox pops and a female voiceover. Overall, the documentary used documentary conventions to feel professional without challenging established forms.
The document discusses the evaluation of a media student's documentary project. It describes how the student researched conventions of documentaries like Super Size Me to inform their own documentary. They analyzed techniques like camera shots, voiceovers, and interviews. They also created an accompanying radio trailer and magazine spread. Feedback showed the reconstruction scene was effective but the magazine design could have been more engaging. Overall, the student learned how audience research and applying documentary conventions helped the project, but their magazine design may have benefited from more work.
The student created a 5-minute opening for a documentary about underage binge drinking. They also created two ancillary texts - a double page magazine spread and a radio trailer. Feedback from the target audience showed that the documentary reconstruction was successful and shocking. Audience research before production informed choices like using real footage, statistics, and broadcasting on Channel 4. While the double page spread design limited its appeal, images from the documentary helped link it. Overall, the combination of products informed the audience and raised awareness of the topic as intended.
The media product uses conventions of the expository documentary genre, including a voiceover presenting facts, archived footage, and interviews. It is similar to investigative documentaries in the Dispatches series. A variety of shots and angles are used to illustrate points and maintain interest. The combination of the documentary and advertising materials is effective at appealing to both younger and older audiences given the topic of CCTV in schools.
The document discusses the conventions used in the student's documentary and radio trailer project. It examines how they employed typical documentary conventions like voiceovers, interviews, titles/captions, and stock footage. It also analyzed their radio trailer based on conventions from existing radio programs, such as using intro music/sounds to set the topic and a voiceover to convey information. The student aimed to follow real conventions to make their media products seem professional while utilizing the forms and styles of documentary films and radio programs.
Levi Hodge created a five minute documentary called "Breakthrough Mentoring" as part of his Advanced Portfolio. He researched observational and expository documentaries to learn conventions like voiceovers, interviews, and archive footage. Levi interviewed mentors and mentees from Breakthrough Mentoring, which provides support to young people. He filmed interviews using professional equipment and included archive footage from a news story about his own experiences with mentoring. Levi took photos to make his documentary more engaging and narrated parts himself. His documentary aimed to show how mentoring services can help young people through challenges.
The document discusses how the media product uses, develops, and challenges conventions of real media forms and products. Specifically, it examines how the creator's magazine covers elements found in music magazines like Kerrang!, such as headers, plugs, mastheads, barcodes, pull quotes, fonts, and photography style. The document provides examples of how the creator incorporated these elements into their magazine cover and contents page while putting their own unique spin on them and challenging stereotypes around rock music.
This document appears to be a draft layout for an advertisement or spread. It includes placeholder text and formatting to mimic the design of an inspirational double page spread used elsewhere as inspiration. The draft layout utilizes similar visual elements and formatting across two facing pages.
- The magazine aims to represent the rap genre through its title, layout, images, and fonts.
- The cover features the artist wearing stereotypical rapper clothing like a baseball jacket and hat, posing in a way commonly seen on rap magazine covers.
- Bold, large fonts are used for headlines to match conventions of rap magazines like Vibe and XXL, with red fonts drawing attention to key information.
- Images and poses of the artist continue representing rap iconography and styles seen in music videos throughout the magazine.
The document discusses the research and planning process for a magazine project. Key influences included i-D magazine's bold covers with minimal text, Wonderland magazine's minimalist double page spreads, and photographers Terry Richardson and Vauthier. Researching the style and conventions of these influences helped determine the design, layout, and aesthetic of the magazine, including a minimalist black and white color scheme and the title "DWNLD" to reflect the music industry. Sample covers and spreads were analyzed to choose a main image that fit the intended indie/alternative genre and band. This process resulted in a magazine that challenged some conventions while achieving a cohesive style across pages.
The document summarizes the creative choices made in developing the opening of a student thriller film project. Some conventions of the thriller genre were challenged, such as not including a typical crime in the opening. The opening was shot in reverse to build intrigue. Various locations around Cambridge were used for a chase scene. Minimal details were provided about the characters to generate questions. Simple titles and fonts were chosen to match the realistic aesthetic. Original music was composed and voiceover was added to provide context. Natural lighting and handheld camerawork aimed to enhance the thriller feel.
This document appears to be a draft layout for an advertisement or spread. It includes elements copied from an inspirational source with the goal of creating a similar double page design. The draft layout utilizes blank lines and spacing to mock up where text, images, and other advertising elements may be placed.
The document discusses conventions of the indie pop music genre and digipak packaging. It notes that indie pop commonly uses darker colors and close-ups while pop uses brighter colors and shots in happy locations. It also lists common digipak conventions like central artist images, titles, and track listings. The document discusses including these conventions, like colors, locations, and packaging elements, in the project to appeal to audiences.
The magazine uses unconventional fonts and imagery to develop its style while maintaining consistency throughout. The "Doonga Slash" font on the cover complements the black and white photo in a casual yet memorable way. Inside, this font and Cooper Black are used consistently for headings, titles, and page numbers to give the magazine a unified theme. Unusual close-up photos add interest for the intended young to middle-aged audience and reflect the contemporary hip-hop genre featured. The artist profile features a relaxed but masked figure, representing the magazine's focus on underground hip-hop artists who value anonymity over commercial branding.
Question 1 in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge co...atkinsh1
Our documentary emulates real documentaries by using codes and conventions from examples like Supersize Me and World's Strictest Parents. We include interviews, graphics with facts, establishing shots, mid shots and captions introducing subjects. We also use techniques like fast-paced editing, close-ups showing expression, blurring for effects, and text overlays. While following conventions, we aim to make our documentary on health and fitness for teenagers feel realistic and professionally produced.
The document examines how the media product uses and develops conventions of real documentaries. It follows conventions like interviews and graphics but also adds new elements. Interviews are conducted on camera with subjects looking at dead space. Graphics include unflattering images of obese individuals. Captions introduce interviewees. A variety of shots are used, such as establishing shots, mid shots, and panning/zooming. The documentary draws from examples like "Supersize Me" and "Fault Lines" to replicate conventions but includes new relevant content for its target audience.
The student was assigned to create a 5 minute documentary introduction along with additional promotional materials. To ensure high quality, they conducted research on documentary conventions by analyzing exemplar documentaries. Their documentary explores body modification and uses conventions like voiceover, interviews, and archival footage to present various views on the topic. They followed conventions from documentaries like SuperSize Me in their shots and interview styles. Their documentary takes an open narrative structure to reflect the ongoing nature of the issues presented.
The document discusses the process of creating a documentary. It explains that the filmmakers researched conventions like formal interviews, vox pops, rule of thirds, and sound used in other documentaries. It also discusses different documentary types and how the filmmakers incorporated editing techniques like adding banners, transitions, and blurring to make their documentary look more professional. The target audience was college students and the documentary focused on health topics like eating and exercise.
The document discusses how the media product challenges and develops documentary conventions. It created a 5-minute documentary on body modification, alongside a radio trailer and magazine spread. It analyzed documentary modes like expository, and strove to educate audiences through facts and multiple perspectives. Care was taken to professionally film interviews in line with conventions, use establishing shots, statistics, and represent experts' professions. The radio trailer and magazine spread similarly followed conventions to effectively promote the documentary.
The media product uses many of the forms and conventions of real documentaries. It follows a serious and pessimistic tone in the opening to set the scene, includes interviews and facts to educate the audience, and uses techniques like voiceover narration, camera shots, editing cuts and music to keep the documentary engaging. Primary and secondary research was conducted to back up points made. The documentary aims to match the realistic and authoritative style of exemplar documentaries like Supersize Me through its use of established documentary codes and conventions.
In what ways does your media product usea2media14f
The document compares the conventions used in the author's documentary to those used in the film "Supersize Me". Some conventions that both documentaries followed include using an opening title, vox pops from the general public, expert interviews in mid shots slightly to one side, facts and statistics, and background music. However, the author notes ways their documentary could be improved, such as making the title more graphic, interviewing a more diverse range of people, and being more creative with sounds. Overall, following conventions helped make their documentary seem professional for their target audience.
The document discusses how documentaries use certain forms and conventions to appear realistic. It analyzes documentaries like "Supersize Me" that use techniques like natural lighting, archived footage, expert interviews, and on-screen text to authenticate the views presented. The discussed documentary follows conventions like camera shots, tripod usage, interview framing and placement, and inclusion of sound through a presenter, narration, and background music to emulate the style of real documentaries.
The document provides an analysis of a student's media coursework which included creating the introductory 5 minutes of a television documentary, a radio trailer, and a double page magazine spread. The student researched conventions of documentaries and used techniques like interviews, facts, music, and shots to develop their documentary. They targeted their content at ages 16-25 and evaluated the effectiveness of their documentary, radio trailer, and magazine spread through feedback questionnaires. The student utilized software like InDesign and GarageBand to construct their ancillary texts and researched conventions by analyzing existing media.
The document analyzes the media product's use of documentary conventions. It discusses how the product studied documentaries like "Supersize Me" to understand conventions around camera shots, sound, interviews, facts and statistics. It aimed to use conventions like these while also developing some, such as opening with a montage and using clips from shows. Some conventions were purposefully not used, such as reconstructions, as they did not fit the topic. Overall the document evaluates how the media product successfully utilized many documentary conventions to create an engaging and informative piece.
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 being discussed, similar to other documentaries like "Supersize Me". Cutaways and creative camerawork like panning and zooming were employed to maintain audience interest and make the documentary more engaging.
George Loftus' documentary follows conventions of real documentaries by using a serious tone in the opening 5 minutes to set the scene. It draws from Bill Nichols' documentary modes, particularly the expositional mode which includes voiceover narration and factual information. Key techniques like interviews, establishing shots, and cutaways are used similarly to documentaries like Supersize Me and Airline. Research, both primary and secondary, backs up points to educate viewers. The radio trail and TV listings article employ familiar conventions of their respective mediums to promote the documentary.
The student created a 5-minute opening for a documentary on underage binge drinking that uses conventions common to the documentary genre. These include a voiceover providing facts and statistics, interviews with professionals filmed on location, and a reconstruction scene. For ancillary tasks, the student made a radio trailer featuring extracts from the documentary and a double-page magazine spread using images, quotes, and a style similar to real television magazines. The documentary and accompanying materials aim to inform audiences of the risks of underage binge drinking through factual information and realistic portrayals.
This document appears to be a draft layout for an advertisement or spread. It includes placeholder text and formatting to mimic the design of an inspirational double page spread used elsewhere as inspiration. The draft layout utilizes similar visual elements and formatting across two facing pages.
- The magazine aims to represent the rap genre through its title, layout, images, and fonts.
- The cover features the artist wearing stereotypical rapper clothing like a baseball jacket and hat, posing in a way commonly seen on rap magazine covers.
- Bold, large fonts are used for headlines to match conventions of rap magazines like Vibe and XXL, with red fonts drawing attention to key information.
- Images and poses of the artist continue representing rap iconography and styles seen in music videos throughout the magazine.
The document discusses the research and planning process for a magazine project. Key influences included i-D magazine's bold covers with minimal text, Wonderland magazine's minimalist double page spreads, and photographers Terry Richardson and Vauthier. Researching the style and conventions of these influences helped determine the design, layout, and aesthetic of the magazine, including a minimalist black and white color scheme and the title "DWNLD" to reflect the music industry. Sample covers and spreads were analyzed to choose a main image that fit the intended indie/alternative genre and band. This process resulted in a magazine that challenged some conventions while achieving a cohesive style across pages.
The document summarizes the creative choices made in developing the opening of a student thriller film project. Some conventions of the thriller genre were challenged, such as not including a typical crime in the opening. The opening was shot in reverse to build intrigue. Various locations around Cambridge were used for a chase scene. Minimal details were provided about the characters to generate questions. Simple titles and fonts were chosen to match the realistic aesthetic. Original music was composed and voiceover was added to provide context. Natural lighting and handheld camerawork aimed to enhance the thriller feel.
This document appears to be a draft layout for an advertisement or spread. It includes elements copied from an inspirational source with the goal of creating a similar double page design. The draft layout utilizes blank lines and spacing to mock up where text, images, and other advertising elements may be placed.
The document discusses conventions of the indie pop music genre and digipak packaging. It notes that indie pop commonly uses darker colors and close-ups while pop uses brighter colors and shots in happy locations. It also lists common digipak conventions like central artist images, titles, and track listings. The document discusses including these conventions, like colors, locations, and packaging elements, in the project to appeal to audiences.
The magazine uses unconventional fonts and imagery to develop its style while maintaining consistency throughout. The "Doonga Slash" font on the cover complements the black and white photo in a casual yet memorable way. Inside, this font and Cooper Black are used consistently for headings, titles, and page numbers to give the magazine a unified theme. Unusual close-up photos add interest for the intended young to middle-aged audience and reflect the contemporary hip-hop genre featured. The artist profile features a relaxed but masked figure, representing the magazine's focus on underground hip-hop artists who value anonymity over commercial branding.
Question 1 in what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge co...atkinsh1
Our documentary emulates real documentaries by using codes and conventions from examples like Supersize Me and World's Strictest Parents. We include interviews, graphics with facts, establishing shots, mid shots and captions introducing subjects. We also use techniques like fast-paced editing, close-ups showing expression, blurring for effects, and text overlays. While following conventions, we aim to make our documentary on health and fitness for teenagers feel realistic and professionally produced.
The document examines how the media product uses and develops conventions of real documentaries. It follows conventions like interviews and graphics but also adds new elements. Interviews are conducted on camera with subjects looking at dead space. Graphics include unflattering images of obese individuals. Captions introduce interviewees. A variety of shots are used, such as establishing shots, mid shots, and panning/zooming. The documentary draws from examples like "Supersize Me" and "Fault Lines" to replicate conventions but includes new relevant content for its target audience.
The student was assigned to create a 5 minute documentary introduction along with additional promotional materials. To ensure high quality, they conducted research on documentary conventions by analyzing exemplar documentaries. Their documentary explores body modification and uses conventions like voiceover, interviews, and archival footage to present various views on the topic. They followed conventions from documentaries like SuperSize Me in their shots and interview styles. Their documentary takes an open narrative structure to reflect the ongoing nature of the issues presented.
The document discusses the process of creating a documentary. It explains that the filmmakers researched conventions like formal interviews, vox pops, rule of thirds, and sound used in other documentaries. It also discusses different documentary types and how the filmmakers incorporated editing techniques like adding banners, transitions, and blurring to make their documentary look more professional. The target audience was college students and the documentary focused on health topics like eating and exercise.
The document discusses how the media product challenges and develops documentary conventions. It created a 5-minute documentary on body modification, alongside a radio trailer and magazine spread. It analyzed documentary modes like expository, and strove to educate audiences through facts and multiple perspectives. Care was taken to professionally film interviews in line with conventions, use establishing shots, statistics, and represent experts' professions. The radio trailer and magazine spread similarly followed conventions to effectively promote the documentary.
The media product uses many of the forms and conventions of real documentaries. It follows a serious and pessimistic tone in the opening to set the scene, includes interviews and facts to educate the audience, and uses techniques like voiceover narration, camera shots, editing cuts and music to keep the documentary engaging. Primary and secondary research was conducted to back up points made. The documentary aims to match the realistic and authoritative style of exemplar documentaries like Supersize Me through its use of established documentary codes and conventions.
In what ways does your media product usea2media14f
The document compares the conventions used in the author's documentary to those used in the film "Supersize Me". Some conventions that both documentaries followed include using an opening title, vox pops from the general public, expert interviews in mid shots slightly to one side, facts and statistics, and background music. However, the author notes ways their documentary could be improved, such as making the title more graphic, interviewing a more diverse range of people, and being more creative with sounds. Overall, following conventions helped make their documentary seem professional for their target audience.
The document discusses how documentaries use certain forms and conventions to appear realistic. It analyzes documentaries like "Supersize Me" that use techniques like natural lighting, archived footage, expert interviews, and on-screen text to authenticate the views presented. The discussed documentary follows conventions like camera shots, tripod usage, interview framing and placement, and inclusion of sound through a presenter, narration, and background music to emulate the style of real documentaries.
The document provides an analysis of a student's media coursework which included creating the introductory 5 minutes of a television documentary, a radio trailer, and a double page magazine spread. The student researched conventions of documentaries and used techniques like interviews, facts, music, and shots to develop their documentary. They targeted their content at ages 16-25 and evaluated the effectiveness of their documentary, radio trailer, and magazine spread through feedback questionnaires. The student utilized software like InDesign and GarageBand to construct their ancillary texts and researched conventions by analyzing existing media.
The document analyzes the media product's use of documentary conventions. It discusses how the product studied documentaries like "Supersize Me" to understand conventions around camera shots, sound, interviews, facts and statistics. It aimed to use conventions like these while also developing some, such as opening with a montage and using clips from shows. Some conventions were purposefully not used, such as reconstructions, as they did not fit the topic. Overall the document evaluates how the media product successfully utilized many documentary conventions to create an engaging and informative piece.
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 being discussed, similar to other documentaries like "Supersize Me". Cutaways and creative camerawork like panning and zooming were employed to maintain audience interest and make the documentary more engaging.
George Loftus' documentary follows conventions of real documentaries by using a serious tone in the opening 5 minutes to set the scene. It draws from Bill Nichols' documentary modes, particularly the expositional mode which includes voiceover narration and factual information. Key techniques like interviews, establishing shots, and cutaways are used similarly to documentaries like Supersize Me and Airline. Research, both primary and secondary, backs up points to educate viewers. The radio trail and TV listings article employ familiar conventions of their respective mediums to promote the documentary.
The student created a 5-minute opening for a documentary on underage binge drinking that uses conventions common to the documentary genre. These include a voiceover providing facts and statistics, interviews with professionals filmed on location, and a reconstruction scene. For ancillary tasks, the student made a radio trailer featuring extracts from the documentary and a double-page magazine spread using images, quotes, and a style similar to real television magazines. The documentary and accompanying materials aim to inform audiences of the risks of underage binge drinking through factual information and realistic portrayals.
The document discusses a student's television documentary project on binge drinking among young people.
The student researched documentary conventions by watching many examples. The opening 5 minutes of their documentary uses an expositional style with narrative, voiceover, and facts/statistics to set the tone and guide viewers.
Interviews and sound are used conventionally, with professional lighting and positioning. Some conventions like reconstructions are avoided as unnecessary. Overall the documentary effectively uses many real documentary codes and conventions while challenging a few that do not fit its topic or audience.
The document discusses how a student media product followed conventions of real media to seem professional. It used standard interview techniques like filming subjects on the left or right third of the screen. When editing, graphics identifying subjects were placed opposite the interviewee. Cutaways and the editing tool "cut" were used to make the documentary interesting and hide jumps. Camerawork mimicked professionals with varied angles from a tripod. Interviews were filmed in locations relevant to the discussion.
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.
The document discusses how the media producer's documentary, magazine article, and radio trailer used and challenged conventions of real media products. To make the pieces feel realistic and professional, conventions like straight cuts and interviews were followed. However, the documentary did not include an on-screen narrator to fit all the information in the 5 minute runtime. The pieces were also effectively combined by having a similar theme, target audience, voice, and colors to attract younger viewers and tie the products together cohesively.
The document discusses the process of creating a 5-minute documentary introduction, radio trail, and TV listings article as part of an A2 coursework task. It outlines the research and planning done to understand conventions of the documentary genre, including watching examples and analyzing techniques used. Elements like interviews, reconstructions, voiceovers and actual footage were included. Camera shots, sound design, narrative structure, and ensuring pieces followed industry conventions were also focuses of the process.
The document discusses how the student's media product follows conventions of real documentaries while also challenging some conventions. The documentary is in the expository mode and uses techniques like voiceover, statistics on screen, and music to advance its argument. It follows conventions from the documentary "Supersize Me" but challenges some, like using a handheld camera at times and a cube transition. The magazine spread is modeled after Radio Times and uses images and pull quotes but challenges conventions with bright colors. The radio trailer is inspired by Capital FM and uses rhetorical questions to engage listeners within the standard 20-40 second length.
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Our radio trailer was 45 seconds long and included dialogue from the documentary and a mellow piano backing track created in GarageBand. It took several days for the group to learn to use GarageBand but they found it very helpful for producing the trailer. They added broadcast details to give the trailer a professional look and recorded the voiceover separately in a silent room to reduce background noise.
The document discusses how the media product, an indie music magazine, represents particular social groups. It notes that traditionally, indie magazines portrayed white, 16-20 year olds with a stereotypical "indie look" of glasses, tees, chinos and earrings who enjoyed music festivals. However, the summary argues it now challenges this stereotype by representing a wider range of indie music and fans beyond the typical portrayal to be more inclusive.
The document discusses the student's media product magazine and how it uses and develops conventions of real magazines. It describes the layout and design elements used on the front cover, contents page, and double page article spread. The front cover includes a masthead, cover lines, pull quote, footer and other typical elements. The contents page follows a similar color scheme and layout to NME magazine. The double page spread features a large dominant image, band name, pull quote, and column-based article layout like real magazines. Some minor differences from real magazines are also noted.
The document discusses research into the magazine NME that the author would like to base their own magazine on. It provides details on the editor and staff of NME, as well as an overview of the variety of genres and artists that NME features in each issue. It also briefly outlines the publication history of NME and common content styles seen in the magazine.
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Question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge codes and conventions of exisitng media products?
1. Question 1- In what ways does your
media product use, develop or
challenge codes and conventions of
real media products?
Documentaries
Hayden Atkins
2. Our preliminary work on
documentaries:
SuperSize Me
• Since the start of the A2 media course, we have watched many documentaries in an attempt to grasp the
features that they contain, and use them ourselves, with the final aim of being able to create a
documentary that emulates a real life one.
• It was also important for us to understand the documentary genres, and the features that are specific to
different genres. For example, in Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me, it contains lots of close ups, mainly to
show expression, particularly when Morgan is disgusted with something, or when there is a particular
reaction that he wants us to see.
• For example, here are three mid shots taken directly from the documentary. They are three close ups that
show us the in-your-face nature of the documentary Spurlock is trying to produce. This would be
different, for example, from a documentary that is targeting young children, where the graphic close ups
aren’t needed.
3. Our preliminary work on
documentaries:
Fire + Rescue
• However in Fire and rescue for example, the features to do with editing for example would be different in
comparison to Supersize me, because it is targeting an entirely different audience, in a totally different genre.
In Fire and Rescue, there is a lot of fast paced editing, to replicate the fast paced situations that firemen need
to react to. This also reflects the target audience, fast, high octane action would be targeting a younger age
group, rather than elderly people for example.
For example, here is 5 seconds of
footage, in stills, to see the
montage styled editing that is
very fast paced:
As shown above, in just five seconds of footage, we see a fire engine coming out of the station, back into the
station, and a side on shot of the engine. This reflects the needs of the target audience- by ensuring the editing
is fast paced and exciting.
4. Documentary
• Before starting the making of the documentary, we decided that we wanted to follow codes and
conventions of existing documentaries, whilst also adding in our own features, that we believed we
relevant to our genre and audience- Health and fitness and teenagers between the ages of 16-24.
• By using existing codes and conventions, it would allow us to emulate some of the features used on a real
life documentary. We decided we would add things like interviews , for example, so that our product
looked genuine and professional.
• During our planning and research, we decided that it would be very beneficial to examine existing
documentaries, and look at the features they contain, so that we could include these in our work.
• Prominent examples of existing documentaries that featured on our broadcast channel (BBC 3) was
“World’s strictest parents”. Whilst we also looked in depth at a documentary that looked at the same
genre as us, “Supersize Me”.
• I have looked at various aspects of both of these documentaries, and we have tried to emulate some of
the conventions and codes that they have portrayed, to try and make our product seem as realistic as
possible.
5. Use of graphics/images
• It is a key convention of nearly all health and fitness documentaries to use disturbing, graphical images to
portray the problem of obesity. One of the ways in which documentary producers do this is to use images
of obese people, often combined with facts, showing the risk of obesity. This graphic is used ins supersize
me, to demonstrate the size of the problem. For example, in this photograph, we have a long shot of an
obese man. The long shot allows productors to include all of the mans body, highlighting the obesity in
more detail, providing us with more graphical content.
• However, we also do this. We have used the same effect here in our documentary to obtain the same kind
of shocking effect, like supersize me have done.
Supersize me visual Our visual
6. Use of interview
• It is a key convention of nearly all T.V documentaries to show interviews. Interviews allow the documenter
to involve external views in their documentary, normally through field/industry experts.
• Using the documentary Fault Lines, Fast foods, fat profits, we looked at their use of interview, and the
conventions that are generally associated with them . We saw that whenever an interview was held, the
subject of the interview was looking across the dead space- a key code of all interviews. Because of
this, we decided that this would be a good convention to follow. Here are the results.
Fault lines documentary Our documentary interview
7. Use of interview
Props
Also included in the conventions of interview is the use of props. The use of props is vital in
constructing a realistic, genuine interview with someone from the field that you want to talk about.
They help set up the ambience of the interview, and influence the realness of the interview.
Here is our interview side
by side with an interview
conducted in Supersize me.
As you can see, the use of
props features in both. In
our interview, we have a
pair of boxing gloves and a
health drink, (green tea)
appropriately placed in the
left third of the interview.
Similarly, in the background
of the supersize me
interview, there is some
stationary
equipment, things you
would expect to se in the
office of a professor. The
Use of props props enhance the Use of props
authenticity of the person
working in their respective
8. Use of Interview
Costume
Here is our field expert dressed in
costume that you would associate with
his job- sports In our documentary, we ensured that our field
experts that we interviewed were dressed in
clothing that our audience would associate them
in on a day to day basis. There was no point in
interviewing the P.E specialist if he was dressed as
a clown, there is no relevance. This is an
important code of all documentaries, as it is
something that the viewer looks for in an attempt
to easily identify the field that the person works
in.
Here is an example from the existing
documentary, Supersize me. The field expert is
dressed in a lab coat, and this instantly makes
him recognisable as a doctor or something in the
medical field. It increases the authenticity of the
interview.
9. Use of Interview
Vox Pops
Vox Pops are otherwise know as “street
interviews” and are designed to give short
snippets of interviews, normally to give a brief
opinion on something. They are often
casual, and don’t observe rule of
thirds, costume or props- they normally just
give an unbiased opinion
Vox Pop from our
documentary, the fitness
Supersize Me Vox Pop and health crisis
10. Use of text
• Another key component of many interviews conducted in T.V documentaries is the use of
captions, primarily to introduce the interviewee. They give an easy on screen visual to interview the
person, and are a very handy tool in the interview. As shown in the example below, the caption introduces
the interviewees name, and normally their profession. In our documentary we use captions to introduce
our two interviewees, fitness instructor Harriett Fowler, and PE teacher Gavin Sheaperd.
Fault Lines documentary Our documentary caption
11. Typical filming components
• In hundreds of documentaries, there are examples of different shots used whilst filming. We included
these types of shots in our documentary:
• Establishing shot:
• Mid shot
• Long shot Mid Shot
• Use of pan
• Use of Zoom
Use of pan
12. Use of special effects
• Special effects were something that we wanted to include in our documentary. Having looked in particular
at the use of blur, in existing documentaries, we thought that the use of blur was effective in slightly
distorting the footage so that the target audience focus on the voiceover. Also we thought that blur was
effective in blurring the background so that the viewers focus more on the people.
Here are two uses of blur in our documentary. The first is a
blurred panoramic shot of Solihull. We have sped it up by 100
to emulate the effects of a busy town. This is useful for
discussing facts in the voiceover, as it gives the audience
something visually to see, and it also gives them an
impression of the place where we are filming our
documentary.
The second use of blur is right at the end of the documentary.
Blur can also be used to “finish” something. We used the blur
in the last shot of the college as almost an ending
note, something that we found effective.
13. Use of the rule of thirds
In our documentary, we decided to use the
convention of rule of thirds, especially during the
conduction of our interviews.
As you can see, our conducted interview
observes the rule of thirds, to an extent. It
is not perfect, but our interviewee is
situated more or less in the left third
whilst the appropriately placed mise-en-
scene is in the right two thirds, so she is
looking across the space, another
convention observed in documentary.
14. Codes and Conventions that we chose
not to follow:
Archival Footage
There were a number of codes and conventions that we chose not to follow in our
documentary, but this does not mean we haven’t researched them. For example archival footage.
It is a big feature found in many existing documentaries, and we chose not to follow it for a number
of reasons.
• Firstly, we found that we did not need found footage. Found footage is often used in
documentaries when you can't film something yourself. For example, in the documentary “102
minutes that changed America”, there is found footage of the aeroplane hitting the
towers, because it is an event that cannot be found now. In our documentary, we found that all
of our footage covered the themes and ideas we wanted to discuss, and we are happy with the
outcome without the found footage.
The footage of the 9/11
attacks is archival footage
that obviously cannot be
recorded
15. Summary
• Overall, we were very happy with the outcomes of our documentary. I believe that we
followed existing codes and conventions constructively, and have created a genuine looking
product.
• There are a number of reasons why I think we have accomplished this. The first is because of
our in-depth research and planning. We spent many hours looking at existing products, and
observing the features they use. We looked at documentaries such as Fire and
Rescue, World’s strictest Parents and Supersize Me in an attempt to gain good knowledge on
codes and conventions that these directors have used when filming to create a genuine
product
• Secondly I think we accomplished the task by bearing in mind these features whilst filming. It
is one thing to research these techniques and say we are going to use them, but actually
considering them whilst filming is something we did well. We said to ourselves during the
interviews, “is the use of props right” and “is the rule of thirds being observed here?”. I think
through answering these questions whilst filming, we followed the codes and conventions of
existing products to a good standard.