Assignment 17 similar products & conventions
- 1. Assignment 17: Similar Products & Conventions Topic: ‘Question of your documentary’ Name 1 Name 2 Name 3 Name 4
- 2. Similar Products (docs I watched) Individual
- 3. Similar Products (Docs I watched) Name 1 NAME OF DOCUMENTARY TV or FILM GENRE & Mode HOW MUCH WATCHED WHERE/HOW WATCHED DATE What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary? 1. 2. 3. All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries
- 4. Similar Products (Docs I watched) Name 2 NAME OF DOCUMENTARY TV or FILM GENRE & Mode HOW MUCH WATCHED WHERE/HOW WATCHED DATE What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary? 1. 2. 3. All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries
- 5. Similar Products (Docs I watched) Name 3 NAME OF DOCUMENTARY TV or FILM GENRE & Mode HOW MUCH WATCHED WHERE/HOW WATCHED DATE What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary? 1. 2. 3. All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries
- 6. Similar Products (Docs I watched) Name 4 NAME OF DOCUMENTARY TV or FILM GENRE & Mode HOW MUCH WATCHED WHERE/HOW WATCHED DATE What did you learn from this documentary that you could apply to your documentary? 1. 2. 3. All must each person should watch and list least 12 TV documentaries Most should - each person should watch and list at least 14 TV documentaries Some could - each person should watch and list at least 16+ or more TV documentaries
- 7. Inspiration from Similar Products Individual
- 8. Annotations could be…. • • • • • • • • • • About presenter Frames/shots/composition Transitions Mode theory (how they do it) Titles/captions Special effects Statistics Use of presenter Expert or public interviews Music & sounds • Anything about construction or conventions!
- 9. Inspiration from Similar Products Name 1 Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)
- 10. Inspiration from Similar Products Name 2 Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)
- 11. Conventions of Documentaries Individual & group
- 12. Conventions • • • • Conventions of narrative structure Conventions of topics Conventions of music/sounds Conventions of editing – • • • • • • • • • Use key term sheet! (cutaways, eyeline match, sound bridging etc) Conventions of shots (or frames/composition) Conventions of locations Conventions of mode theory Conventions of social actors (public & expert interviews) Conventions of titles/captions Conventions of presenter Conventions of narrator Conventions of statistics Archival photos/videos etc Come up with full list and divide equally You should have about 4-5 each
- 13. Conventions of Documentaries Name 1 Conventions Example from a documentary (bullet point or image) Sound bridging to….
- 14. Conventions of Documentaries Name 2 Conventions Example from a documentary (bullet point or image) Sound bridging to….
- 15. Similar products & their conventions Individual
- 16. Individual level choice Level description All must 1 documentary, 2-3 conventions Most should 2 documentaries, 2-3 conventions Some could 3 documentaries, 2-4 conventions Group members cannot do same documentary
- 17. Who is doing what documentaries? Name Documentaries Name 1 Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Name 2 Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Name 3 Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Name 4 Documentary 1
- 18. Similar products & their conventions Name 1 – yellow level Convention Use Develop Challenge Explanation (annotated screen grab or just explanation) Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)
- 19. Similar products & their conventions Name 2 – green level Convention Use Develop Challenge Explanation (annotated screen grab or just explanation) Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)
- 20. Your product (documentary) & conventions group
- 21. Link to evaluation question! Conventions in our documentary Conventions we want to apply Where in documentary? Use/ Inspirational develop/ documentary or another challenge? (applied similarly tolearned documentary - you from this from other documentary) Can use more than 1 slide – don’t cram! How does this relate/connect to mode theory?