Assignment #4
- 1. Assignment #4 Analysis of a TV Documentary Kauana Labaldi 13V
- 2. Big fat gypsy weddings. Information: • Released on: 18 February 2010 • Created by: Jenny Popplewell • Run time: 49mins • Channel: 4 • Available to watch: www.channel4.com – 4od Target audience: • Age: 15- 30 • Class: middle class • Gender: female • Ethnicity: all
- 3. Conventions of Documentary • Hand held Camera - encoding realism and ‘truth’ • Narrative Voice Over - leading the audience into a preferred reading • Vox Pops and Interviews with experts / witnesses / participants • Often a shorter running time than non-fiction feature films • Intercutting / Parallel Editing linking key scenes • Use of Archive footage to support filmed scenes • Surveillance (information) decoded by audience (e.g. about McDonalds in Supersize Me) • Mediated culture – documentaries select and construct, thus encoding opinion and subjectivity • Selective editing crucial to constructing meaning • Often point of view with encoded ideology, preferred meaning • Use of Establishing Shot and Close Up • Observational, Interactive, Reflexive, Expository in format • 3 act structure, closed investigative narrative • Often single stranded, linear – one subject is often the topic • Exploration of narrative themes, messages and values • Different purposes – to entertain, inform, educate, satirise, shock, satisfy, provide voyeuristic pleasure and for propaganda purposes Characters are often hyper real, exaggerated stereotypes
- 4. Conventions used: • Side shot to show people and include the place • Mid angle • Establishing shot • High angle • Showing the place • Close up angle
- 5. Conventions used: • Side shot • To show bride • Mid angle • Interview • Mid shot • Rule of third