Wednesday, 22 September 2010

Codes and conventions of a documentary genre:

  • Interviews
  • Images (moving and still)
  • Voiceover
  • Theme
  • Music
  • archive material
  • Graphics-credits
  • single strand narrative
  • Editing: cut is the most common edit because it then doesnt distract the attention of the interviewee.
  • Voiceover is sometimes relevant depending on the topic-relevant age to the topic-standard english, calm and clear delivery. creative and varied camerawork.- conventional framing on the interviews with camera on a tripod and not hand held.
  • Archive material- still images: CD covers, newspapers, poster etc.
  • camera movement:pan up and down, zoom etc.
  • if chromacy is used it shouldnt distract the audience from the interview.
  • relevant music-doesnt interfere-correct sound levels
  • Graphics-anchor the person, time, places and relevance to the programmes topics-simple and usually two lines wrong.

Television Scheduling

Inheritance- scheduling a programme after a popular programme hoping it will inherit the same audience.

Pre-echo - Audience tunes in before a popular one; catch the end of the popular programme and hopefully tune in next time.

Hammoking- New programme put between two popular programmes which could mean it was expensive to make.

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