1. Question One:
In what ways does your media
product us, develop or challenge
forms and conventions of real media
products?

2. • Our media product does not develop
or challenge the forms and
conventions of real media products as
it follows these conventions
presenting our product at a
professional standard.

4. When filming our media product, we made sure
we followed the conventions correctly:
• We filmed all our interviews in the position of the left or right
hand of the screen in either close up, medium close up or
medium shot.
• There eyes in rule of 3rd at all times.
• When editing, we made sure we included graphics displaying
their name and relevance of the interviewee on the opposite
side of the screen

5. • As you can see both interviewees are not
looking directly at the camera, but at the
interviewer. Also the lighting is correct and it is
not too bright or too dark.

6. • Like professional documentaries, we have
used cutaways in order to disguise jump cuts
and to break or some interview as so not to
bore the audience.
The images in the
left shows how a
cutaway is used in
an interview. The
images on the
right shows how
we have used
cutaways in our
documentary to
avoid jump cuts.

7. • Here are some examples of our cutaways
where we used to break up the interviews and
avoid jump cuts:

9. • Cut was the most common edit used as the
questions in the conducted interviews were
cut just as professional products do.
EXAMPLES
OF WHERE
WE HAVE
USED THE
CUT
METHOD
BETWEEN
CLIPS OF
OUR
FILMING.

11. • Like professional products, we used varied camera
work so that our work was as creative as possible.
Like real products, we
filmed on a static tripod
so that our filming would
be steady.

12. • When filming interviews, we made sure our mise-
en-scene was relevant to what the interviewee
was talking about. Images on the left is taken
from a real documentary, with images of our
documentary demonstrating that we used the
codes and conventions of documentaries.

13. • Archive footage was filmed creatively with
movement to make it more exciting etc. For
example, we zoomed, panned
magazines, photographs and news articles as
shown below:

15. • our documentary also included other codes
and conventions of real product:
• Voice over: included throughout, standard
English, very clear. This held the narrative
together being also relevant to what is on the
screen.
• Music Bed: did not interfere with
dialogue, however, made documentary much
more interesting.
• Correct sound levels
• Used a variety of relevant material
throughout.

16. • Overall, we feel that our documentary follows
the codes and conventions of real products
and the examples show that documentary is
to a professional standard.

18. • Like a real product, my print advert is landscape
which means it can versatile so that it can be
scaled to any size and to fit n billboards etc. Also
both contain a main image which anchors
meaning and also is relevant to topic. Like a real
product, my print advert focuses on the image
very well.
Professional Advert
Our Advert

19. • It also includes a slogan anchoring meaning
and giving it some creativity.
Professional product
Our product

20. • Both contain the scheduling and the channel
logo. The logo also gives information and
identity.
Professional product Our product

22. • Like a professional radio trailer, our product contained the following
conventions:
• Voice over intercut throughout
• Intrigues the audience
• Contains clips from documentary
• Music bed throughout(louder at start and end)
• which is relevant to
• topic and maybe featuring in the documentary.
• Also has scheduling and slogan at end
(usually in the order of: Title, Date,
Time and channel).
SEE BELOW FOR CLIPS IN RELATION TO THIS....

23. • Overall, this presentation demonstrates how I
have followed the codes and conventions of
real media products as I have referred to the
conventions throughout the media
production. Because of this, my documentary
is to a professional standard.