This document discusses the use of connotations in a documentary. It describes how various shots, images and elements were used to connote feelings of innocence, vulnerability, public opinion, obsession with appearance, and the threats posed by new media and pro-ana websites. It also discusses using experts to comply with documentary rules while potentially contradicting suggestions to be more creative. The document analyzes the connotations created through various production elements and techniques.
2. O P E N I N G SEQUENCE
• We used the opening shot of Facebook to
illustrate immediately that we are dealing
with new media such as the popular ideal of
Facebook and using the ‘status’ connotes the
feelings of an older generation asking the
young what they would like to be?
• We wanted to create the feeling of innocence
for the opening of our documentary, we did
this through the use of modelling a young girls
innocence however portraying her
vulnerability to disruption as she says ‘I want
3. CONNOT A T I ONS
• The vox pops are just the connotation
of the publics opinion of themselves and
to illustrate how much we view ourselves
on our bodies appearance.
• We used the stop motion as a
connotation much like the use of the
dispersion effect. We wanted to
portray an image which is viewed on the
surface as composed, much like we see
people everyday. However, underlying
4. CONNOT A T I ONS
• We used the projected images to
connote the female obsession with
surveying and analysing every aspect of
their body. This also has a second
connotation of new media being
impacted by big media through the
online magazine industry.
• We have used the B-eat
Ambassador, Madz Conway as a way of
showing every girls battles through
5. CONNOTATIONS
• Through the use of an educated media
teacher and the nurse we were
complying to the rules of the expository
genre. This subjected that we had to
use an experts opinion of this topic.
This could contradict the argument
Gauntlet suggested that to be creative
we had to be ‘making and doing’ rather
than a ‘sit back and be told’ culture.
• Through the use of the media teacher
6. CONNOT A T I ONS
• We used pro ana sites to show
explicitly, without the need to use emaciated
models, the harmful contents that online
media can bring through user generated
websites such as Tumblr. We used a screen
capture of scrolling through the pro ana
blog, this is to connote the girl is looking
through the website and to portray a
constant threat and that is seemingly never
ending . We also tried to connote that pro ana
sites are easily accessible as a girl is sitting
using her computer within her room.
• We used many fillers throughout our
7. CONNOT A T I ONS
• We used a montage of film showing the
implications that the internet has had
on our generation. The montage also
helps to enhance the opinion of
bombardment of technical devices such
as iPhones, laptops and tablets.
• The new equilibrium of ‘what can we do’
is in itself the connotation of recovery.
The presentation of the cards
illustrating the text could connote the
