assignment 17 similar products & conventions
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Assignment 17: Similar Products & Conventions
Topic: ‘Question of your documentary’
Name 1Name 2Name 3Name 4
Similar Products (docs I watched)
Individual
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
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
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
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
Inspiration from Similar Products
Individual
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!
Inspiration from Similar ProductsName 1
Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)
Inspiration from Similar ProductsName 2
Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)
Conventions of Documentaries
Individual & group
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
Conventions of DocumentariesName 1
Conventions Example from a documentary(bullet point or image)
Sound bridging to….
Conventions of DocumentariesName 2
Conventions Example from a documentary(bullet point or image)
Sound bridging to….
Similar products & their conventions
Individual
Individual level choiceLevel 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
Who is doing what documentaries?
Name Documentaries
Name 1 Documentary 1Documentary 2
Name 2 Documentary 1Documentary 2Documentary 3
Name 3 Documentary 1Documentary 2Documentary 3
Name 4 Documentary 1
Similar products & their conventionsName 1 – yellow level
Convention Use Develop Challenge Explanation(annotated screen grab or just explanation)
Documentary: ‘Food Unwrapped’ (Channel 4, Series 4, 2013)
Similar products & their conventionsName 2 – green level
Convention Use Develop Challenge Explanation(annotated screen grab or just explanation)
Documentary: ‘The Human Swarm’ (Channel 4, 2013)
Your product (documentary) & conventions
group
Conventions in our documentaryConventions we want to apply
Where in documentary?
Use/develop/or challenge?
Inspirational documentary
(applied similarly to another documentary - you learned from this from other documentary)
How does this relate/connect to mode theory?
Can use more than 1 slide – don’t cram!
Link to evaluation question!