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| What Is A Documentary? | A documentary constitutes a broad category of non-fictional films and TV Broadcasts intended to document some aspect of reality - primarily for the purpose of instruction or maintaining a historical record. |
| How I have conformed to the codes and conventions of documentaries in my main production and ancillary products ... | - Graphics - Archive Footage - Sound - Mise-en-scene - Interviews - Editing - Narrator |
| Graphics: Two lines in a simple font so not to distract the audience from the main image/moving image. Used on screen to inform the audience of the interviewee's name and their relation to the subject matter | I used conformed to this convention of documentaries by using two lines in a simple font similar to C4 font style in the interviews e.g. Hannah Wiley, 15, Student Kelly Parker, Guidance Councillor I felt that it was useful in providing more information for the audience |
| Archive Footage: This is specifically used to show aspects of the subject/topic being explored but on a much wider scale. Most commonly used throughout interviews and at the beginning of a documentary | I used archive footage at the beginning of my documentary by using a series of images/screenshots of newspapers with reports on suicide victims due to cyber bullying - I felt that this helped to give the viewers historical knowledge as well as showing significant consequences of the subject matter |
| Sound: Both diegetic and non-diegetic sound are used in documentaries to represent emotion/to set a mood. - Diegetic: This is any sound presented as originating from inside the film world seen on or off screen. For example voices of characters or sound made by objects in the scene. | - Non-Diegetic: This is any sound whose source is neither visible on screen nor has been implied to be present in the action. For example narrators commentary, sound effects added for dramatic effects, backing track music. |
| Diegetic: Again, I conformed to the conventions of documentary by using diegetic sounds for the interviews where the characters voices are heard with no non-diegetic sound sources. I felt it was important to use this to create a sense of realism and to hear more information about the topic | Non-Diegetic: The types of sound I used in this area were the music sourced for the backing track, as well as the voice over for the narrators commentary; I felt that this gave a desirable realistic effect when analysing existing programmes and so wanted to incorporate it into my work. |
| Mise-en-scene: The use of mise-en-scene must be kept consistent throughout the whole documentary, it can be portrayed through interviews, archive footage, voice overs and camerawork. | Natural lighting is particularly significant in the portrayal of realism and so I conformed to this convention, however I mostly conveyed mise-en-scene in my production through the panning shots of the school, the children and the classrooms. |
| Interviews: The key element of documentaries is the use of an interview with professionals or case study individuals | - Mise-en-scene is portrayed through interviews e.g. topic of cyber bullying being explored amongst young people and so the setting is in a school IT room. - The camera remains static so the audience are not distracted from the interview, sometimes cut aways are edited into an interview to illustrate what they are talking about however I diverted away from this convention and included these shots before and after the interview rather than during |
| Editing: Documentaries include a lot of cuts due to the variation in scenery and shot type e.g. interviews and archive footage Conventional editing answers questions that have not been formally asked so the structure of the shots is edited in such a way that this can be shown. | - I could not show the conventional narrative structure entirely in my production as it is only the opening however if I was to have made a completed documentary then I would have done - I used a variation of cuts, panning shots and shot reverse shots in my production to link information to the right materials |
| Narration: A narrator is important to hold the narrative together as it is used to move the narrative along and to push ideologies on the topic along. The tone of voice, accent and vocabulary of the narrator is all dependent on the target audience | I used a girl from my college with polite received pronunciation to speak as the narrator in my documentary; the script that I wrote included a variation of vocabulary and language to ensure that the narration targeted a middle/upper class audience. |
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