QUESTION ONE -

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The video below explains and compares the forms and conventions we have used in our documentary which show how they are similar to a professional documentary. For example, Cutaways, Graphics, Framing, Archive Material, Voxpops and Stop motion animation.

"The codes and conventions all form to real codes and conventions of real media products in my documentary. We used cutaways a lot like real media products do, these were all broken down and edited to fit in with the topic onscreen. They were used to open the sequence and to move one sequence on to another, for example in between interviews.

I have also followed regular forms and conventions in that within the interviews, we have framed it so that either the interviewee is always opposite to the interviewer. Also the interviewee looks not directly at the camera but at the interviewer.

Also onscreen text appears in the bottom left/right hand corner when the interviewee appears, the text introducing them and their occupation, this is a regular code and convention of real media products.

Additionally we used stop frame animation to film our title sequence. This is no used in every documentary however it is a code and convention.

Also when interviewing the mise-en scene has connotations of the subject. We also edited out questions to avoid any jump cuts."

Cutaways

Our Documentary

We have used cutaways a lot throughout our documentary to avoid any jump cuts, like a professional documentary would do. The cutaways were always made relevant to the topic onscreen. This is a regular convention of any documentary.

Graphics

Our Documentary

We used graphics in the edit to introduce the interviewee and their occupation to the auidience. This is also a regular convention of professional documentaries.

Professional Documentary

Framing

Our Documentary

We framed our interviews so that the interviewee was either on the left or the right of the screen, they are also looking not at the camera but at the interviewer, the eye line is also a third of the way down the screen. This is conventional of a professional documentary.

Professional Documentary

Print Advert

Our Print Advert

Above shows an analysis of my print advert in comparrision with a professional print advert for channel 4 below.

Professional Print Advert

Radio Trailer

Above i have analysed my radio trailer script, and shown how i have followed regular forms and conventions of real radio trailers to make my own as professional as possible.