5. Conventions of Documentaries
Convention What is it/ Why its used?
Archival Footage and • ‘old’ images
• newsreel footage
Photographs • shots from fiction films.
Talking head • in their own environment- occupational/home
• sometimes on the road.
“interviewees” • This is used for people views and interpretations on
different ideas.
Jiggly Camera • Form of re-inforcing documentary reality.
Voice over narration • Usually occurs to explain a image or whats
going on in the scene
Re enactments • Stages real event that has already happened.
• Most of the time it uses actors and not the
original characters.
7. Conventions developed.
Instead of archival footage we
We are using fonts of have used archival photos.
popular fast food
restaurants and
supermarkets for our
titles.
10. Preview of next
Introduction of subtopic topic – C. 20
– nearly 1min seconds
Introduction – nearly 2mins Development of subtopic – nearly 2mins
11. Our 5 minutes.
• Introduce series topic – food, what is • Here is where we will talk
healthy and unhealthy. Whether healthy or about the rise in fast food
unhealthy food is more popular today. Does establishments across the
areas condition diets e.g Harlesden has a country. Exploring the reasons
lot of fast food and Notting hill has a lot of why this happened. Pricing?
bistros.
• In this time we will run a test. In this • Interview ‘Mr Tesco’ and
experiment we will try to find the reasons speak to him to try and see if
why fast food is becoming more popular he can lower food prices to be
by seeing what is more expensive and competitive with fast food to
time consuming to cook healthy food or make the country healthier.
to go and get it
12. Episode Two
• INTRO – review of past episode
• Talk about organic food brief intro of it
• Researching where our organic chicken comes from.
• Then looking at where fast food chicken is produced.
• Pricing of organic food, comparing it with normal food.
• Family on a budget, why don’t they buy organic food.
• Preview to the next diet episode
13. Episode Three
• INTRO – review past episodes introduce three
people who all look average size.
• SUBTOPIC INTRO – explain that one is on a
healthy diet, one is anorexic and the other has a
bad diet
• DEVLOPEMENT OF SUBTOPIC – change all three
of their diets to give them and the audience and
insight to have other diets affect people and
what's good and bad
• End of series.