What is being done by the soundtrack/ voiceover/ dialogue?
Gives a overview of what is happening in the documentary, highlights every aspect
What sound and visual techniques are used to convey meaning?
She uses iPads and iphones to show that they are common and everyone is using them on a daily basis
What are the denotative meanings and connotations?
Connotation is what the picture or text is and de notation is what it means
What is the significance of the mise-en-scene?
It plays a big aspect because it helps distinguish whats happening on the scence and it creates more of an effect
What are the dominant images and iconography?
The use of social networking logos
What assumptions about the audience are made?
There are many such as some do it for fun and some people are just desperate
Who is the target audience?
Teenagers and Adults
To which genre/s does the text belong?
Reflexive Documentary
Who is being represented?
The teenagers and adults who use social networking to find love
What is being represented?
Websex
Why is the subject being represented in this way?
Because its unusual and not used very often
Are there any stereotypes?
Most Males use it
Is the representation fair and accurate?
No as the documentary shows female use it to
How are these ideas and values put across in the text?
They are put through not in a formal way but it uses some facts to get the point across
How did the institution affect the text?
As its a PSB it has a goal to inform and educate
how has the text been distributed?
Through BBC and the iPlayer
Who owns and controls the institution?
The Goverment and its payed for through the TV license
Is the text a public service or commercial institution
Public Service
Monday 23 January 2012
Thursday 19 January 2012
Documentaries
Expository Documentaries use narrators to address the audience directly and to present an explanation interpreting what is being seen by viewers in the mis-en-scene.
This is done by the use of a narrator or commentator with a ‘Voice of Authority’. This is often used to anchor the meaning of the visual text for the viewer.
In order to make identification easier, film makers tend to use voices of male, white, middleclass narration which would represent the target audience.
Expository documentaries often engage the viewer by creating arguments and conflicting viewpoints. This type of documentary also attempts to persuade viewers.
The typical conventions of an expository documentary include a voiceover, analysis and exposition of a topic and images used alongside voiceovers.
Observational Documentaries
• Observational documentaries follow a person, or an event.
• This form of documentary tells a story of a journey as it unfolds.
• There are very rarely voiceovers and interviews used in this form.
• Takes are relatively long.
• The typical conventions of an observational documentary includes being filmed on-location, direct sound recording (very little use of non-diegetic sound), documentary maker is behind the camera, participant show no acknowledgement that they are being filmed. This is usually because they don’t know they are being filmed and represents a fly-on-the wall perspective of the text.
Reflecxive Documentaries
In a Reflective Documentaries Film maker acknowledges the presence of a film maker and they give a running narrative, Images – The images in the film seem to be subordinate to the voice-over narration. However, the scene with the goat is an example of how these images are subverted in the film. Buñuel uses documentary techniques to call into question the ethics of such forms of documentary filmmaking that we as spectators tend to accept. This is ultimately what reflexive documentaries ask of us. They ask us to see documentaries for what they really are; a construct or representation.
This is done by the use of a narrator or commentator with a ‘Voice of Authority’. This is often used to anchor the meaning of the visual text for the viewer.
In order to make identification easier, film makers tend to use voices of male, white, middleclass narration which would represent the target audience.
Expository documentaries often engage the viewer by creating arguments and conflicting viewpoints. This type of documentary also attempts to persuade viewers.
The typical conventions of an expository documentary include a voiceover, analysis and exposition of a topic and images used alongside voiceovers.
Observational Documentaries
• Observational documentaries follow a person, or an event.
• This form of documentary tells a story of a journey as it unfolds.
• There are very rarely voiceovers and interviews used in this form.
• Takes are relatively long.
• The typical conventions of an observational documentary includes being filmed on-location, direct sound recording (very little use of non-diegetic sound), documentary maker is behind the camera, participant show no acknowledgement that they are being filmed. This is usually because they don’t know they are being filmed and represents a fly-on-the wall perspective of the text.
Reflecxive Documentaries
In a Reflective Documentaries Film maker acknowledges the presence of a film maker and they give a running narrative, Images – The images in the film seem to be subordinate to the voice-over narration. However, the scene with the goat is an example of how these images are subverted in the film. Buñuel uses documentary techniques to call into question the ethics of such forms of documentary filmmaking that we as spectators tend to accept. This is ultimately what reflexive documentaries ask of us. They ask us to see documentaries for what they really are; a construct or representation.
Technophobes
BBC Three is launching a new program called “Technophobes”, following the lives of five people who are afraid of technology.
Complete the following questions on your blog (and make sure you have definitely posted up your blog address here):
a. AUDIENCE: Who would this program appeal to? In your answer include gender, socio-economic status, psychographics and demographics.
I think that it will appeal to 15-25 year olds, as they are the generation who have been brought up during the time that technology was at its growth phase and are bound to be very fluent in the technology talk and all the new gadgets. The socioeconomic groups that are likey to watch this are A to C2 as they are the one who are likely to buy and afford the gadgets.
b. INSTITUTION: What assumptions can you make about this program just from knowing that it will be broadcast on BBC Three?
I think that as its on BBC3 it will not be very serious or formal. It contain a more informal tone, and as its on late it may contain swearing.
c. MEDIA FORMS: What kind of program are you expecting to see when it is broadcast? Include specific ideas about content, along with more broad knowledge of the codes and conventions of this genre.
I think that the overall show many be presented by one or two people. And the people will probably switch between pre recorded segments and the camera will following the person in the 'natural habitat' and will help them overcome phobias and will make fun of old people who may not no how to use the computers or new technology.
d. REPRESENTATION: What kind of position or opinion about these “technophobes” would you expect this documentary to project? Explain why.
I think the programme may be about old people or the 'Silver Surfers' and how they do not no how to use the technology that is around at this present time and how they need help adjust themselves to the technology. This also may project to the target audience to help the old people to use the computers.
Complete the following questions on your blog (and make sure you have definitely posted up your blog address here):
a. AUDIENCE: Who would this program appeal to? In your answer include gender, socio-economic status, psychographics and demographics.
I think that it will appeal to 15-25 year olds, as they are the generation who have been brought up during the time that technology was at its growth phase and are bound to be very fluent in the technology talk and all the new gadgets. The socioeconomic groups that are likey to watch this are A to C2 as they are the one who are likely to buy and afford the gadgets.
b. INSTITUTION: What assumptions can you make about this program just from knowing that it will be broadcast on BBC Three?
I think that as its on BBC3 it will not be very serious or formal. It contain a more informal tone, and as its on late it may contain swearing.
c. MEDIA FORMS: What kind of program are you expecting to see when it is broadcast? Include specific ideas about content, along with more broad knowledge of the codes and conventions of this genre.
I think that the overall show many be presented by one or two people. And the people will probably switch between pre recorded segments and the camera will following the person in the 'natural habitat' and will help them overcome phobias and will make fun of old people who may not no how to use the computers or new technology.
d. REPRESENTATION: What kind of position or opinion about these “technophobes” would you expect this documentary to project? Explain why.
I think the programme may be about old people or the 'Silver Surfers' and how they do not no how to use the technology that is around at this present time and how they need help adjust themselves to the technology. This also may project to the target audience to help the old people to use the computers.
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