Evaluation Question one

Documentary

By watching different documentaries at the beginning of the year this gave me and my group a clear understanding of what to include and what documentaries should look like when watching them we watched....

The Devil Made Me Do It “The Music Bizz”:Meatloaf That thing Lara Croft

I then did some research myself and watched another two documentaries to see if they were any different and I watched The Bat Man Shooting and Girl Modal these two documentaries also included the same codes and conventions as the others three.

Chosen theme

• Our documentary used allot of conflict to keep the audience thinking and to get them evolved for example we said sweets are very popular and keep people happy and allot of people love them but the we also had someone who told us how bad sweets were for you and your teeth and how we shouldn't really eat to many ,an example of this would be in the bat man shooting documentary when Americans love using guns for gun festivals, protection etc and they can be bought over a counter but the government are trying to put a ban on them for all the bad shootings that have taken place so this shows conflict ad keeps the audience interested.

Our documentary is a mixed documentary because it includes a range of different things such as observation,interviews,archive material, graphics we made our interviews observational as we made sure that the person we were interviewing looked at the person asking the questions instead of at the camera as we noticed that's what happens in most documentaries we also decided to use some archive footage from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory as we wanted to relate our documentary in with another well known topic. We also used a range of different shots and cutter ways so it did not get boring as well as using a narrator who was known as the “Voice of God” because there heard but not seen.

Type of our documentary

Graphics

Depending on what side the person is sitting on depends on what side the graphics do for example “Greg” the dentist is sitting on the right so the graphics will go on the right hand side at the bottom and in the batman shooting picture the graphics are on the bottom right hand side because he is sitting on the left the graphics usually last up to a few seconds and only appear the first time that person is seen. The same font and size will always appear throughout and will not change it is very important that the font stands out.

Construction of an interview

As a group we discovered that all interviews are framed in a medium close up and they are usually a third down the screen. To the right is an interview from That Thing Lara Croft he is in a medium close up and he is a third down the screen he is looking towards the left and not to the camera this is observation so to the left is an interview from our product of a trampolinist she is also a third down the screen and she is sitting on the right looking over to the left so again its observation this is were it looks like the camera isn't there and someone's just watching it.

Archive footage is used in most documentaries so we decided to use it in ours we used some from Wily Wonka and the chocolate factory we used it because it was good to add to the conflict of chocolate being really good! It also helped add depth. We chose Wily wonka as its a well known film for both adults and children and as soon as people here about it the think sweets.

Archive from our productArchive from a professional documentary

Marlin Manson the devil made me do it fan pulling two fingers up to the camera shows the audience how his fans aren't very nice people witch creates conflict

Sound

• Our documentary had a “voice of god” witch was done by a woman that fitted our target audience as she had a good clear formal voice she also sounded professional and new what she was talking about.

We used a music bed for the opening titles to anchor the audience in we chose lollypop by mica this was because it is a well known song and as soon as you think of it, it brings sweets to mind