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Unit 27 factual programming
- 1. Unit 27 factual programmeproduction
- 2. Documentary • Documentary attemptsto represent the world in a realistic style • Documentaries are still constructed products • Truth vs. construction • Creators opinion and point of view
- 3. Types • The ObservationalMode: leaving the ‘actors’ free to act and the film maker free to record without interacting • The Participatory Mode: film-maker actively engages with the situation they are documenting, asks questions, sharing experiences. Reliant on the honesty of witnesses
- 4. Conventions of a documentary •What are they?
- 5. Documentary conventions • Presenter(particpatory • Voice over (observational and participatory) • Camera work (hand held) • Single strand narrative • Graphics • Interviews, talking heads • Reenactments/dramatizations • Real people
- 6. News conventions • Whatdo we expect to see?
- 7. News conventions • • • • • • • • Studio Outside broadcast Suitson anchors Graphics Bulletin narrative structure Theme tune Multi camera set up Camera shots (mid shots)
- 8. Issues • Accuracy • Bias •Representations
- 9. Accuracy • Situations donot just naturally occur for the camera • Prior to shooting there is planning and preparation • Invasion of the camera will alter peoples reactions • Editing? • Film-makers opinion giving a biased view?
- 10. Positive values offactual programmes • Educate: a variety of point of views. • Inform: issues that the public are unaware of. • Create empathy: urge audience to help • Encourage social/political change: bring the issue to the public arena. • The producers intent may be positive but an oppositional reading will give a negative.
- 11. Negatives • It's notdemonising the poor," McKerrow insists. "It's a very honest and true portrayal of life in Britain and people are frightened of it.”
- 12. • The backlashagainst Benefits Street is on a different scale, with an online petition nearing 20,000 sign (at the time of going to press) calling on Channel 4 to axe it, and a protest being planned on Facebook for outside Love Productions' London office.
- 13. Why? • Some participantsclaimed they had been duped into taking part under the pretence it was a series about community spirit.
- 14. Why? • "These aremarginalised people with complicated situations being exploited for entertainment, and the thousands who have signed my petition agree with me," he said. • Representations?
- 15. Accuracy? • Dramatic footageof a polar bear tending her newborn cubs in the flagship BBC show Frozen Planet was filmed in a Dutch zoo using fake snow. • Reputation?
- 16. Accuracy? • ITV wasthis evening forced to apologise after faking footage on a brand-new flagship show – using clips from a violent video game. • Footage of the 1988 'attack' was shown to viewers on Monday night's premiere show on ITV1, which exposed the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi's links with the IRA.
- 17. assignment • Create aPrezi • explain issues such as bias, representation and privacy that have arisen in the factual programme genre (p1), linking to clips, stills or interviews (m1) and explain how they have affected the programme or participants (d1)
- 18. • explain thecodes and conventions of news programmes such as report structure, outside broadcasts, graphics (p2) giving example of actual footage by linking to clips, stills or interviews to explain why they are used (m2) using correct terminology to explain the examples (d2)
- 19. assignment • Explain whatdifferent forms of documentary there are (observational, dramatization etc) (p2) with examples (clips, stills or interviews) to explain why they are used (m2) using correct terminology to explain the examples (d2)
- 20. Assignment 2 • • • • • Write aproposal Get into groups Start pre production Get filming 24th February is deadline