The First Scene:

We decided to look at super size me

before producing our documentary. Just

like super size me, who’s first footage

was of

children singing, we wanted our Documentary to challenge the convention

of starting A documentary with it’s name. So I suggested that we start off

with people saying what they don’t like about their body. I think this worked

very well and fitted in

with the purpose of our

documentary perfectly.

Firstly if the viewer isn’t aware of

what the documentary is about

they get a hint and secondly it will

be relatable to our target

audience, as the people talking

our young.

The Title:

A convention of a documentary is

to include a title. Compared to the

style

of the super size me title our is very simple. This is because we were

aiming for it to get a serious message across to our audience. However

looking back at it now I think we could have added color t our title even

if it was just the outline of the letters. Maybe a red firstly because it’s a

serious

color and a mutual color

between both genders, it

also would help our

documentary link to our

magazine a bit more.

Expert Interview:

Another convention we followed

was including an expert interview.

We used an

Expert to provide the audience opinions from professionals. This further

enforces our point. We also made sure that the expert wasn’t looking

straight into the camera a this is also a convention of documentary’s. we

also included graphics to tell the audience who the expert

was this is also an important

convention of documentaries.

Archival Footage:It was important for us to include archival footage to add information to the

documentary we also used it as evidence. It is a convention to have archival

footage covering the whole screen. We developed this convention

unconsciously by starting of recording an Ipad with the footage and then

using a transition to make it cover the entire screen. We had to do this to

prove that this footage wasn’t ours and we had just recorded it of the internet.

Facts and

Statistics:From research I learnt that having

facts and statistics is an important

convention

of documentaries. As it helps

back up your point and in our case it can make people really realise how

much of an impact social media has on society. We decided to present our

facts on an Ipad as it helps relate to our topic.

Vox Pop:

A vox pop is an opinion from the

public. Using a Vox Pop in a

documentary is key. Just like Super

Size Me we also used a

fair amount of Vox Pop’s, we used vox pop’s to prove to the audience that

social media was having a negative impact on people. By using young adults

it helps the target audience relate to themselves. We also

chose to use a variety of ethnicity’s and

both genders to make sure our research wasn’t biased.

Actuality:

Actuality is footage of

something that is happening

in real life. All documentaries

include this, we used it to

show how involved people

are with social media, they

are constantly on it.