Our documentary, which is in the theme of ‘Attraction’, is similar and uses conventions of real documentaries in many ways.
Firstly through the variety of our Interviews. We used an Expert (physiologist) who answered questions that many people would like to no the answers of and are very interesting points, she comes across very professional with lots of detailed and descriptive answers. She is wearing a red dress and blazer- emphasising her profession and she looks intelligent, the red she is wearing also represents love which is what she is discussing in the interview, The shot we have framed her in, is simple with a computer behind her, making it look as if she is studying now and in her profession.
We also interviewed a variety of couples of all ages and relationship status, showing a variety of people that the audience can relate too. All of our interview shots are of the head and shoulders, there are no distracting backgrounds, and we used simple settings showing a good mise en scene. Nobody was looking at the camera, so when sat on the left hand side of the camera couples were looking to the right, which looks professional and uses the conventions of real media documentaries.
Compared to a real media interview.....
When being interviewed no questions where heard, so all answers in interviews where answered at the start of the question for example ‘I do no believe in love at first site because…’ it all makes sense and is easy understood.
The voiceover we used has conventions of media products because she sounds clear, and is easy to understand, she is well spoken and speaks loudly and in a pace that the audience can hear and think about what she’s saying, the audience feel that she has knowledge about what’s she’s talking about and can relate to her, and her opinions and knowledge are not biased and people can engage with her. Her voice goes up and down in pitch making her more enjoyable and interesting to listen too.
The Lightening we used is all natural light, so gives the audience a sense of realism, no unclear shots, very visible and bold, which makes our documentary seem professional.
Compared to real media vox pops and lighting.....
The use of archive footage that we have put in our documentary was a limit of 30 seconds, we used shots of programmes that our well known e.g. eastenders and skins, which adds further information about our documentary, and is more informative/interesting and entertaining.
We used small amounts of graphics- Text/Font, we chose to have fun, flirty text as it represents our documentary as exciting and fresh, we made our colours red and white to symbol two things, Firstly red symbols love and lust which relates to the theme of our documentary Attraction so everything ties together, and secondly is represents the colours of a magnet suggesting that people fall in love and are attracted to each other like a magnet, which covey’s our message across.
The music- placed at the beginning of our documentary is non diagetic sounds we chose a loud, upbeat song which makes our documentary more fun and exciting but gives information across but in an entertaining way. The lyrics to the song ‘might like you better baby’ are fun and cheeky and work well with our film perfectly.
The rest of the documentary is mainly diagetic sounds of voiceovers, interviewees and vox pops.
In our Print Advert their are also many ways in which our product uses conventions of real media products.
I annotated our Print advert in comparason to a very similar one from channel 4's 'Britians Forgotten children'. We have used many similar codes and conventions of real print adverts, and compared them together. Our print advert represents channel 4 print adverts very well as it looks like it would be seen on a bill board or in a magazine.
For our radio trailer we have also used codes and conventions of real media products today. Fom researching and listening to many radio trailers, i made notes of the conventions of radio trailers this has helped me alot in creating our own, as i knew exacty what to involve on it. Firstly we clearly stated the time, channel and programme name so that as soon as listeing to the trailer the audience know's what it is about and when it's on so they don't miss it. We have also used sound bites taken from our documentary this gives people a brief insight into what our documentary will be about and gives you a taster of it. The voice over that we used was very well spoken and easy understood, she sounds fun, fresh and interesting making people want to watch our documentary as it seems interesting and entertaining. The background music that we used was taken from our documentary, it is a song that has not been in the charts so is quirky and represent our programme-so that when people hear it, they no immediatly what it's from, which engages with the listener.
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