Assignment 17 – similar products and conventions complete

Assignment 17 – Similar products and conventions

Chelsea Fashole LukeRosalin Zein

Marisha InokeRuss Monocillo

SIMILAR PRODUCTSIndividual

Similar ProductsName of documentary

TV or film Genre and mode How much watched

Where/when watched

Date What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary

1. Ladyboys Tv Observational All Sky Living Good use of narrator

2. Come fly with me (mockumentary)

Tv Expository All Watch 23/8/13 Used humour to entertain

3. Americas stoned kids

Tv Participatory All BBC2 24/8/13

4. Hotel of mum and dad

Tv Observational All BBC3 4/11/13

5. Crazy about one direction

4od Observational All Channel 4

6. tiger: spy in the jungle

Tv Observational/expository

All BBC4 24/8/13

7. The culture show: youtube – the future of tv?

Tv Participatory All BBC2 4/9/13

8. City beneath the waves: Pavlopetri

Tv Expository 10 mins BBC4 9/9/13

9. Child of our time

Tv Participatory/observational

All BBC1 9/9/13

Chelsea

Similar ProductsName of documentary

TV or film Genre and mode

How much watched

Where/when watched

Date What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary

10. My tattoo addiction

Channel 4

11. My big fat gypsy wedding

12. Dr J Money and the boy with no penis

BBC2 4/11/13

13. Miley: the movement

MTV 5/10/13

14.

15.

Chelsea

Similar Products

Name of documentary

TV or Film

Genre&Mode

How Much Watched

Where/How Watched

Date What could you apply to your documentary?

1. The Culture Show – YouTube : the future of TV

Online Reflexive All Youtube 01/09/2013 PresenterVoiceoversCredits

2. Don’t Blame Facebook

TV Expository 1 Episode Channel 4 08/09/2013 NarratorCutawaysNon-Diegetic Background Music

3. Food Inc Film Expository All Online 06/06/2013 Use of narrator

4. Catfish TV Relfexive / participatory

All Online October Use of presenterCreditsSense of realism

5. Food Unwrapped

TV Participatory 2 Episodes 4oD 31/08/2013 Use of sound effectsTransitions

6. Never Sorry Film Expository Short Cllp Online October Expert interviewsCase study

7. Breaking the Taboo

Film Expository All Online June Archival footage

Rosalin Zein

Similar Products

Name of documentary

TV or Film

Genre&Mode

How Much Watched

Where/How Watched

Date What could you apply to your documentary?

8. Out There TV Participatory 2 Episodes BBC Iplayer 16/10/2013 Use of presenterCase studies

9. One Born Every Minute

TV Observational 1 Episode TV September Use of narratorCamera shots/angles

10. Educating Yorkshire

TV Observational 30 mins Online 19/10/2013 Expert interviewsCredits

11. The Human Mannequin

TV Observational All Online 4oD 20/10/2013 Sense of realism through natural lighting.

12. We are Legion – story of Hackers

Film Expository Trailer Online October Archival footage

Rosalin Zein

Name Of Documentary

TV or FILM How Much Watched

Where/ How Watched

Date What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary?

I lost My Job Film Documentary Full Film Top Documentary Films/ Online

April 142012

That music needs to match to various shots to create fitting documentary

Future Intelligence

Documentary Film Full Film Top Documentary Films/ Online

January 30 2009 Inspires desires to have physical presence of narrator.

Building Gods Documentary Film Full Film Top Documentary Films/Online

November 4 2011

An animated introduction that uses various sounds images, archived clips or snippets of the film can help grab audience attention.

Google Me Documentary Film Full Film Top Documentary Films/Online

April 25 2008

The constant use of actors are very eye appealing and would help create an more interesting documentary

Technology: World War 2.0

TV Film Documentary

Full Film Top Documentary Films/Online

March 272009

Technologies are useful, having various equipment allows your documentary more information and resources.

Russ

Name Of Documentary

TV or FILM How Much Watched

Where/ How Watched

Date What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary?

Failed Inventions

TV Film Documentary

Entire Film Top Documentary Films/Online

March 192009

Having expert interviews is very important for creating and interesting and informative documentary.

How TV Ruined Your Life

TV Series Documentary

1 Episode Top Documentary Films/Online

January 2011

Editing various clips to fit your subject matter is interesting.

Poor Us: An Animated History – Why Us

Documentary Film 30 Minutes Top Documentary Films/Online

November 202012

That animation can play an effective role in progressing a point of interest.

Russ

INSPIRATION FROM SIMILAR PRODUCTS

Individual

Inspiration from similar productsChelsea

Reflexive mode: cameras are not hidden from view of viewers.Allows audience to see from more than one point of view (the main camera)

Titles: titles and credits fit the theme (social networking) of the documentary and make reading them more fun for the viewers.

Inspiration from similar productsChelsea

Titles in large, bold font, making it eye catching to the viewer

Interviews: throughout the documentary, pieces of Miley’s interview is shown

Expert interviews: musician Pharrel is interviewed about Miley.

Archival footage: images from her twitter page are shown

Inspiration from similar productsRosalin Zein

Expert interviews with YouTubers.

Reflexive mode – as the construction of the documentary is exposed through the cameras and the presenter having direct address with the audience

Archival footage / Found footage: e.g. the footage of the man jumping from space

Inspiration from similar productsRosalin Zein – Don't Blame Facebook

The transitions that are used in this documentary are really unique. The effect resembles a fuzzy TV screen which relates to the topic of the documentary which is social media.

Throughout the documentary there are cutaways to Facebook & Twitter posts as evidence for their case studies. What I liked about this was the way in which their cutaways appeared on the screen and the use of sound effects.

In this documentary there would be different angles/shots of a single piece – for example, in this clip the man being interviewed has a long shot and a close up shot.

Inspiration from similar products

statistics

(captions) subtitles are easy to read

Archival footage

Russ Monocillo

CONVENTIONS OF DOCUMENTARIES

Individual

Conventions of Documentaries

Conventions Example from a documentary

Titles/captions My tattoo addiction: tattoo style font in titles and captions

Social actors Crazy about one direction: many fans were interviewed about the band

Mode theory Tiger: spy in the jungle: observational & expository. Watches the lives of a tiger family through secret cameras

Archival photos/videos Dr J Money and the boy with no penis: showed photos and videos from David’s childhood

Narrative structure

Chelsea

Conventions of Documentaries

Conventions Example from a documentary

Presenter Nev Schluman – ‘Catfish’

Found Footage ‘Breaking the Taboo’ – Found footage of news.

Background Music ‘The Woman who woke up chinese’

Statistics ‘Food Inc’

Close up shots ‘Don’t Blame Facebook’

Rosalin Zein

Conventions of documentariesConventions Example from a documentary

Conventions of Narrator Poor Us: An Animated History - Why Us uses animation to set the story for their narration and continue the progress of the documentary.

Archival editing How TV Ruined your life is TV Show Documentary that uses various achieved clips to create sketches on attempts to place the fine line between reality and television.

Convention Of Location A Gift for a Hacker uses locations like buildings , websites and convention for various businesses as well as companies

Convention Of Music/Sounds Google Me uses various comforting music and sounds that fit the setting and set the mood of either the scene or progression towards the next subject.

Russ Monocillo

SIMILAR PRODUCTS AND THEIR CONVENTIONS

Individual

Which documentaries?Name Documentaries

Chelsea • Ladyboys • My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding• Miley: The Movement

Rosalin • ‘Don’t Blame Facebook’• ‘The Culture Show – YouTube : The

future of TV’• ‘Food Unwrapped’

Russ

Marisha

Similar Products and their Conventions

Convention Use Develop Challenge Explanation

Narration ✔ A present is not used, instead a narrator informs the viewers of events which take place.

Case studies ✔ The documentary follows ladyboys living in Thailand and how they deal with issues in their everyday lives.

Professional interviews

✔ Interviews with doctors who perform surgeries and procedures on ladyboys.

Chelsea

Ladyboys



Interviews ✔ Non-formal interviews with gypsies are shown throughout the show

Titles ✔ Titles are shown throughout the documentary, usually adopting the familiar series font

Case study ✔ Follows the case of many gypsy brides to be and their families

Chelsea

My big fat gypsy wedding



Handheld camera

✔ A handheld camera is used to film the whole programme and is evident throughout

Sound bridging ✔ Sound bridging used when sound is continued over a switched scene

Use of music ✔ Music is used when dialogue or sound is not in use

Chelsea

Miley: the movement



Archival footage

✔ Instead of archival footage s they wouldn’t have been able to have this – they have reconstructions of events

Narrator ✔ There is no presenter in this documentary instead they use voiceovers of a narrator

Case Studies ✔ The show is based on the publics experiences with social networking so they have a variety of case studies with different stories.

Rosalin Zein - Green Level

‘Don’t Blame Facebook’ – Channel 4



Expert Interview

✔ They have many expert interviews with YouTubers and people that work within the social media

Presenter ✔ The presenter is very laidback and converses with the cameraman from time to time

Credits ✔ Credits are used to identify the presenter and the various ‘experts’ from the interviews


‘The Culture Show – Youtube : The future of TV’ – Channel 4



Archival footage

✔ Archival footage is not used in the documentary.

Presenter ✔ In the documentary there ae four presenters who do research on different/similar topics e.g in an episode 2 of the presenters researched grapefruits while the other researched yogurt.

Sound Bridging ✔ Sound bridging is used for the voice overs when there are cut aways and also when there is background music.


‘Food Unwrapped’ – Channel 4

Similar products & their conventionConvention Use Develop Challenge Explanation

Conventions of Music/Sound

Usingvarious fitting sounds/music to progress the story and create a setting for each person that shares a similar name around the world.

When the narrator visits his similar named counterpart in Australia, fitting accents, sounds and music were used to fit the setting.

Stand By Statistics

The use of statistics with a plain background that has correct text to strengthen the subject’s material.

In Vanguard the Mayor Of New York states statistics to strengthen his argument that the city is now better due to strict Tobacco laws.

Effects/Transitions

Smoothing out the shift between clips by using various effects and transitions

Vanguard uses sharp cuts of various clips rapidly to create a constant source of new interest content to keep interest.

Documentary: Google Me, April 25, 2008 Top Documentary FilmsVanguard Sex lies and Cigarettes June 28 2011 Top Documentary Films

Russ

YOUR PRODUCT & CONVENTIONSGroup

Conventions in our documentaryConvention Where in

documentary?Use/Develop or Challenge

Inspirational Documentary

How does this relate to Mode theory?

Presenter In the 2 minute intro to episode

USE Catfish Presenter is used in participatory

Voice Overs Montage of whole documentary

USE One born Every minute

Most modes use this

Statistics 2 minute intro to episode

USE Breaking the Taboo Presenting evidence

Public Interviews Within montage of whole episode

USE Food Unwrapped

Background music

Throughout the 5 mins USE Crazy About One direction

Montage Editing 2 Minute montage USE The Human Swarm

Sound Bridging Of voice overs when there is montage editing and background music

USE Miley The Movement

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