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Evaluation Question 1
In what
ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of
real media products?
In order to use, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products, the first thing that my partner and I had to do was
actually identify what these conventions are through research. We began this
research by watching a wide selection of documentaries in order for us to
identify any general trends between the documentaries. We noticed several
trends within these documentaries, but this is a very general media form which
has many variations in genre and style, therefore we needed to look more
specifically at the type of documentary that we had planned on creating and the
genre that it would be. I looked on the internet to find a reliable source that
provided me with the information on categories or genres for documentaries and
found that a theorist named Bill Nichols had made a model that distinguished
these types of documentary named ‘The six modes of documentary’ This allowed us
to identify which of these six modes our planned documentary would be
categorised in, meaning that we could research the forms and conventions of
this specific documentary type. This research concluded that forms and
conventions was a lot more common for some aspects of the documentary than
others. The main one being shots. Because of this we tried to adapt some of our
camera shots so that they could follow this common convention as closely as
possible, but there were barriers that stopped us from doing so, meaning that
not featuring some of the shots that were common within this genre caused us to
challenge these conventions. As we were creating an observational documentary
with a fly-on-the-wall style, the documentaries that we researched such as
Educating Essex, Educating Yorkshire and Big Brother all featured high angled
shots that through CCTV style cameras which we could not provide or budget.
This meant that unfortunately we could not feature all of the typical forms and
conventions of our specific genre of documentary, but we still elaborated on
this to keep it as realistic as possible for our chosen genre. We did this by
using shots that were similar to other camera shots, angles and movements that
were used throughout the similar documentaries that we researched. These
include the medium close up shots that we used for the interviews of the
students and teachers, as well as the high and low angled shots of the teacher
and the students in the lesson. This technique used for the common convention
that we found from our research signifies representation as it makes the
teacher look far more superior to the students. There were some shots that we
originally took but when editing the video that we realised we had to redo
slightly different so that they followed the conventions a bit closer as they
did not fit in properly. This allowed us to fit with our chosen genre a lot
better. Although this does not reference away from the genre, one convention
that is noticeably challenged in comparison with the main documentaries that we
researched, is that we actually featured a countertype of the typical school
students behaviour and attitude as we allowed them to appear interested and
motivated, as opposed to in Educating Essex and Educating Yorkshire where they
clearly showed a bad attitude towards the teachers and their education. We
deliberately featured this countertype as we felt that it would be a good way
of attracting an audience as we thought that they may be getting bored of the
common stereotypes portrayed in these types of programmes. We thought that it
would be a good idea to differentiate it in this way.
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