Mood Board

Our Mood Board can be used to help us identify themes in horror and action films so that we can use clips from films that can relate to our topic!

Proposal

Questionnaire Evaluation

Questionnaire

Audio Update

Orgnaising Expert Interviews

Idea 3 - Final idea

Idea 2

Idea 1

Our ideas and collection of images to help us with research

Gatekeeping and Construction of Reality

Reflection

To aid the production of our documentary we have done this research to enable us to identify the different characteristics of a stereotypical documentary.

The different theorists and modes we have identified can help us to structure our documentary when we get to the planning stages. It will also help us to pick a concept and possibly adapt a story line into our documentary to make it more characteristic of a professional documentary. This can lead us to developing a better relationship with the audience in the way that we can connect with them through our filming.

Strengths:

• We have worked well as a team to complete each of our set tasks on time
• We feel like we are adding sufficient detail to each post 

Improvements:

• I feel like we should try and aim to add detail that shows how we can use these posts to help us decide on our documentary style and themes
• More varieties of post software should be used

We believe that our research can help us to plan and create a brilliant documentary :)

Update

Focus group

Focus Group Questions

Discuss:

Would you watch a documentary on Celebrity’s influences on the general public? What would you expect it to be focused on?

Do you think the topic of phobias is interesting? Would you be interested in finding out more about it? Do you think it’s a good idea for our documentary?

Have you ever considered whether there’s an influence on people from horror films or action films? We want to do this for our documentary, would you watch it and do you think it would be gripping enough?

Any extra comments?

Narrative structure continued.

Structure from a2media14e

Narrative Structure

Narrative structure from benmcg

Shot Types

Key Conventions of a Documentary

Types of Documentary (the links made present in the slides are the followed by an embedment of the selected youtube clips)

Documentary Genre

Documentary genre:

A documentary is a nonfictitous film intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record. Documentaries main purpose has been to inform and educate, but in recent years the aspect of entertainment has become more important, especially with maintaining viewership of the documentary.

The term documentary was coined by ‘John Grierson’ in 1926, he coined the term when reviewing Robert Flaherty’s Moana.

Documentaries are now shown through television and there are channels specifically known for showing documentaries as opposed to other shows on their channel.

A problem over recent years that has been linked with more modern documentaries is that of disneyfication.  In Layman's terms, this refers to the dumbing down, of the documentary, or genre as a whole. 

Documentaries can be split into 6-sub categories, these being the following:

·         Poetic documentaires.

·         Expository documentaries

·         Observational documentaires.

·         Participatory documentaries 

·         Reflexive documentaries.

·         Performative documentaries.

Documentaries are not confined to just one of these sub-categories, but can have overlapping elements.

Explaining the Brief

Profile

(Left to right) an Alice sandwich with a Ben filling

This is our A2 media group. Alice and Alice met at AS in the same media group last year. one of the Alice's is currently in the same Film Studies class as Ben, but Alice and Ben have never met.

Roll on A2 Media!