A2 Media: 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My media product follows the forms and conventions of real media products rather than challenging or developing them.

TITLE SEQUENCE.

For our opening titles, I researched different documentaries and found that they sometimes used a montage of clips, so I decided that would be a good idea for our. We filmed a montage of clips, relevant to our documentary. We used a varied amount of different peoples obsessions, such as ironing, and 'Pokemon' within the titles so that the audience would get an idea of what the programme will include. We used the Pokemon cards both at the start and end of our documentary but we reversed one of them so it completed the opening titles.

We used simple graphics for the Title, and extended the timing so that it was obvious to the audience that it was the title.

INTERVIEWS

I followed all of the forms and conventions of an interview.

The eye line of the interviewee is always one third of the way down the screen and is filmed in medium shot, medium close up and close up .

In this case the interviewee was filmed in medium closeup, as is positioned right of the screen.

Interviews are never filmed with a light source behind the interviewee.For the mice-en-scene we created a collage of Harry Potter related images, as it was relevant to the content of the interview. Just like the professional to the right, He is evidently in an office, as he looks professional.

We also made sure the interviewee never looked at the camera, so in doing so we positioned the interviewer to the left of the camera.

CUTAWAYS

The cutaway, are one of the main details in interviews. They break them up and illustrate what they're talking about and to avoid jump cuts when the questions are edited out, thus we asked them to repeat the question back when answering the question, so it made sense. I used cutaways from a Harry Potter merchandise booklet as she was talking about how her mum dislikes buying her the items.

VOICEOVER

The Voice over holds the narrative together. We chose to have a man who is quite cheerful, and up-beat to match the tone of our Documentary. He speaks in Standard English, and in a calm and clear delivery

GRAPHICS

The graphics always Anchor the person
The second line usually states their relevance to programme
I have followed both of these and have used a bold clear font that does not distract.
The transition of it coming onto the screen is a very quick fade.

ARCHIVE FOOTAGE

We used quite a lot of archive footage in our documentary, however we tried to make it more creative by filming them on angles or panning around or up and down printed out images.

In one of our interviews we used chroma key, thus we used archive footage as our mise-en-scene. Twilight clips, from each movie where cut into the background. Also, in our Justin Bieber interview we inter cut part of his music video with footage that we filmed, with a music bed of his song. It proved to be effective.

VOX POPS

There arne't really any Vox pop conventions, however they are usually placed at the center on the screen and looking at the interviewer and not the camera.

MUSIC

We included quite a lot of music in our documentary such as 'Just Can't Get Enough' by Depeche Mode. We used this as it works extremely well for the opening titles, and the up-beat music goes well with the tone and as it is quite a well known song, the audience are likely to remember it and it will attract them
We also used Justin Bieber music within the Justin Bieber interview as it is relevant and makes it sound like the music may be playing in her bedroom in the background.
During the Harry Potter interview we used the well-known theme tune of Harry Potter as it gives the audience recognition of what the interview is about before the interview.
We had to email the Record Company's of the artists music we had included, however we did not get any response.

CAMERAWORK

For our Documentary we tried to use creative camerawork where possible. Mostly in the opening titles, where we used Panning to left and right, Close up's, extreme close-up's, long shots creative angles, and a Zoom.