In what ways does your media product

use, develop or challenge forms and

conventions of real media products?

Our documentary follows quite a few of the conventions of Mixed documentaries. Such as a talking head, rule of thirds shot. As this is one of the most common conventions and can be seen in basically all professional documentaries, it makes the shot look astatically pleasing and is something audiences are used to seeing. You can see an example of this in the documentary ‘In the Teeth of Jaws’

We made sure to include this in our documentary on our main interviews and our Vox pops. Which you can see an example on in the image above of the interview with Malcolm with him being to the side and his head is inline with there the lines cross, this make the shot easy to digest and gives it a professional feel.

Our DocumentaryIn The Teeth of Jaws

Another convention we followed was the use of a voice of god narration this help us give context to the documentary it also helped us to develop the conventions as we keep what was being said in the voice over informal to keep the target audience ofteenagers interested in what was being said. we used a rule of thirds shot which is normal for documentaries to use to introducewho is speaking but we developed it so we didn't just have the name one occupation we made it so that it was in the style of where you type a tweet on twitter. We challenged this as the narrators are usually male but we felt that a female voice would be softer to listen to when we are discussing the more delicate issues such as cyber bullying.

One of the main conventions of documentaries are lower this titles as they give the audience information about the person they can see in the shot. As you can see in the example from The Music biz - Meat Loaf Edition above with how is it telling the audience that it is meat loaf and the name of the song.

Usually they are just very plain we challenged this by making ours in the style of twitter as this is one of the main social networks we talk about in the documentary, as you can see above. We felt that it would be the most visually pleasing for the audience to see. We followed this convention by keeping it on the other side of the screen from the person in the shot.

The Music biz - Meat Loaf EditionOur Documentary

This is another common convention of documentaries as you can then add what ever you want into the background of the shot. As you can see in the back of the Lara Croft documentary (above) they added images and videos of them in the back of the shot to make that shot look more interesting for the audience.

We challenged this by not using one . We use graphics instead like in the Appatized interview (above) as we wanted to hide something in the background since when we where shooting this interview we didn’t have any choose on the room we were filming in. We also did this as at the time of making the interviews we didn’t have access to a green/blue screen to film the interviews.

Our DocumentaryThat Thing - Lara Croft