Tourettes I Swear I Can't Help It

This clip has been included as i personally watched this program at the time that it was on TV and when considering relevant research sources i immediately thought of this clip as it fits the types of representation and codes and conventions suitable for are production.

This is a program based on a disability known commonly as ' Tourettes' its correct original name being ' Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome'.The program tackles the terrible trouble that the patients have to live with.The way the program is constructs shows the way the disability effects two main individuals.As a audience we witness the issues through there eyes instead of looking at it from a presenters point of view.

The reasons why it is relevant to are studies as it shows the ways a disability can be present.The techniques of how we see the life of a individual can work because it allows you to construct and build a atmosphere for the one certain issue.

The editing and soundtracks used are very successful and would be relevant for are documentary as they build a distress and upsetting feeling for the viewer.

Factors that we would like to take from this example of documentary ?

- Types of Storyline.
- editing and sound
- voice overs

Why Are Thin People Not Fat

Dispatches - The Truth About Your Food

This clip is from a program called 'Dispatches The Truth About Food'.This is a great example of a documentary that follows the typical codes and conventions of a documentary,using simple camera angle and shot.The way the camera focus on the subject matter is by mainly consistently focusing in close ups moods using pans at eye level view.


As you see with lots of documentaries to heighten the expectations of the viewer,the program is edited to begin with.A clever factor that introductions the program including small clips from the program.There is usually accompanied with a soft middle class voice over that produces the impact of whats going on ,The idea is to give a short brief summary on what the program is about.

In this program/episode the theme is aimed to investigate Britons issues surrounding food and the intake by people.There are different aspects involved in this program,one of which is a interview with a family and the goal is to prove and make the family aware of issues surrounding food.

I think the style of this type of documentary follows a much different style to other which we have looked at but equally the techniques and styles shown are of interest to us as they can present different ways of looking at various issues.

Dispatches takes a harsh line in showing to us as the audience, facts and figures in a direct in your face manner.The ways they do this is by including the public,they ask individuals randomly to see how much then know regarding the subject.

Factors that we want to take from this example ?

- The way facts and opinions are presented.
- Including the general public to enhance the documentary theme.
- Editing and sound.
- The way it tackles the same issue but using different styles, E.g. different case studies instead of one example.

Wife Swap UK

I have included this ' Wife swap ' episode produced by channel 4 as it is a very well know TV series that is in a documentary style but also has a entertaining reality TV style which makes it a very interesting example to look at.

The basis idea behind Wife Swap is two wife's swap for a given amount of time.The objective is to show the two wife's in a different household environments.

Each program starts with the same style narrative.They use a voice over explaining the families and the members involved.The voice over is carried out by a male, with a simple monologue. Although the content of theses programs is generally of lower class individuals.This type of viewing experience is very successful with educated working class audience.

The types of Camera shot and angles used are normally set up capturing the actions although the shots are simplistic.They include a range of shots including long shots, medium shots, shots that show the character in there home environment,which is a aspect of mis en scene.

The objective of theses programs is to show the families there bad ways and as a conclusion they have one final talk together to come to a successful result.In the certain program the conclusion is a successful result.

The reasons this is a relevant documentary to are studies is that there is deliberate conventions that present certain atmosphere.The ideas behind this production is to produce entertainment elements and the enthuses is not on presenting facts but to solve issues.The main goal for this style of program is to create drama between each family in stereotypes ways.

What factors we want to take from this example ?

- Entertainment values
- Editing and sound
- The way the program has a fast start to grab the audiences attention.

Reseach Into Conventions - Powerpoint

This powerpoint is a combination of media theroys and conventions.I have included it as we find it very relevent and gives us useful insights to factors involed with creating a documentary.Their are conventions and codes that have a structure.

The powerpoint goes page by pages through the different steps that a tradition piece would follow,the source we gathered this information from is OCR.

Planning - Mood Boards

Planning to build up of are Documentary piece:

In order to develop and uncover what we actually want to produce we carried out some planning consisting of mood boards,Mind maps for our documentary :

Mood board :-

The image below is a initial mood board i produced when thinking of all the relevant and closely linking sources that apply to are documentary.There are screen shots from types of documentaries of interest,channel logos that produce these types of documentary and iconic individuals that have told their story of disability through the camera.


















First thing that we looked at is ' Setting'.Which we want to create a realistic life like realism:

UK,set in a tradition British house,a very normal standard home feeling to the setting.With the edition of City and public surroundings to show the full insight to the characters life.

The theme was are next big factors that we wanted to identify:

The theme that we want to create is distress and presenting the character as vulnerable.Through the way we show the character and their life we will use very normal everyday shots such as being in the home environment.The objective is to presents the character as very unhappy and show the disability that they have to be badly effecting their life.

Types of places it would be distributed :

Due to the natural of the Genre and type of moving image we are creating which is documentary the best place that it would be most successful in is through TV programs such as channel 4 documentary series or BBC.Places that people would expect and look to watch this type of viewing material.

Types of characters and behaviours presented:

We want to present one character with a clear strong disability that we can play to are strengths and show the conventional ways of representing disability.We want to show actual visual issues that can be seen by the viewer.For example bad behaviours,struggle and emotional distress.

Types of viewing for example,camera,editing and sound :

We want to use standard camera shots that give a sense of very normal tracking shots that follow the character.Fly on the wall shots to show the characters home life.Editing that overlaps and has a range of voice overs and low level sound.Appropriate sound tracks should be used to enhance the disability theme.

Reseach Into Codes And Conventions

Preparation - Plans for Filming Documentary:

Genre:

The genre of our documentary is going to be based on some sort of Disabilitys,using types of style shown in main stream documentrys.The reason for choosing this is because we're interested in prosention this genre to show this issue to the audeince. I also believe that this genre is aimed for such a large audience that we have the protental to satife a large amount of TV audeinces.I personally have watched this type of viewing content and see so much that i feel i can exspore due to the fact i understand the ways they prosent things in this type of documentary style. I think as a pair we can achieve the conventions needed.

Things needed consist of:

- Realist home and everyday settings.
- suspence surrounding the issues need to have hidden asects.
- issues that have real effects on the audience.
- Action moments to capture the issues.
- entertainment value.

Respentations and conventions related to are product:

The first step in deveopling ideas and gathering reseach is have a idea of what you want to find out.It is important that you actually find out what you need but not gather erelevent imofrmations.This theroy can be appealed when reseaching and deveopling a piece of work.By following some of these conventions then you are covering key elements that make a product be apropate for its audeince.

Blumer and Katz theory:-The key elements are factors such as :


Hypodermic Needle Theory :-

The Hypodermic needle theory is also a very usful way of looking at media and appealing it to your work.

The "Hypodermic Needle Theory"People were assumed to be "uniformly controlled by their biologically based 'instincts' and that they react more or less uniformly to whatever 'stimuli' came along" . Hypodermic theory graphically assumes that the media's message is a bullet fired from the "media gun" into the viewer's "head".Similarly, the "Hypodermic Needle Model" uses the same idea of the "shooting" paradigm. It suggests that the media injects its messages straight into the passive audience .This passive audience is immediately affected by these messages. The public essentially cannot escape from the media's influence, and is therefore considered a "sitting duck" .Both models suggests that the media is vulnerable to the messages shot at them because of the limited communication tools and the studies of the media's effects on the masses at the time.

My Reseach In To The Documentry Of My Intrest And Relevent :-

In order to gain better ideas and a detailed plan of what i want to create within the documentry area of filming i want to garryer a detailed reseach data base to refer.I know that the one factor that i want to keep in my production is a element of reality in peoples lifes.Showing the life style of Indivials.

Reseach Into The Histroy Of Documentry :-

The PowerPoint slide below contains all the relvent Reseach into the Histroy of Documentry and what the actual conaltations of the Genre mean.

Link of Relevents into reseach regarding Documentrys :

World War 2 Documentary:

The link below is a great example of a older style documentry that is documenting about World War 2.The reason it is of relevents is due to the fact you can clean see a step backwards in terms of style within the documentry.The way they address their audience is very different to what you would adsect to see in modern documentrys.The editing is much more contained and slower.Rather than using a range of short clips to build up a sence of whats going on which you see in most modern documentrys , they use long hand held visiual more action types shoots.I think the main difference is the way they address the audience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtIybJOWN4&playnext=1&list=PL06F7EC9269455C99

Styles and And different Types Of Documentrys :-

I have looked at the types of documentrys that are Imformentry based.I have initial started first at looking at documentrys that have a opening sqence of action that shows snippits from the actal Program that shows what will unfold.There is usally shots that show the issues that the program is about, so a argument or a interview.

I first looked at a TV documentry program called '' Tourettes I Swear I Can't Help It!!!''.This was a program that i found had a good style within it and showed a very good life refections of a issue that it was showing in the program.The program is all to do with the disablity of Tourettes and how it effects the peoples life that live with it.I have looked at this documentry becuase it convays the sytles that i want to draw out of these types of programs.

This is a link that shows a Highlighted version of the program that shows the key elements of the program that i am looking at.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXPssyYlO0

Identifying A Brief And Choices

A2 Media studies Production Portfolio

Brief Of What Are Task Is:

For are A2 level practical coursework, we are given the task of a choosing a detailed brief from a menu of 10 different options.Each option gives a main task and a choice of three supplementary tasks.

There are a range of different briefs that have a opportunity to exsplore different styles and genres of moving image ranging from Movie Trailers to Music Videos. The main factor that remains the same with each brief is the fact you have to carry out a Moving Image piece of some kind of Genre as well as the supplementary task.

Brief We Chosen:

I have chosen the brief of creating a ''new documentary TV program'' which has to last approximately five minutes.The supplementary task that i have chosen to carry out are a radio trailer for the documentary as well as a double page spread from a listing magazine on the Documentary.
I have chosen this brief instead of the other briefs because i want to explore a more reality life like moving image piece in comparison to the other briefs that involvefictional film content.For AS level i carry out a moving image piece in the genre of action, so i want to explore different genre and styles.

- An extract from a new documentary TV program,lasting approximately five minutes,together with two of the following three options:

- a radio trailer for the documentary:
- a double-page spread from a listing magazine focused on the documentary:
- a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

Group:

I have chosen to work in a group as a pair with a student called Stuart Rush.I feel that being in a pair will allow us to create a fullfilled piece of work that has every elment that is needed to achieve are best protental.We made the choice to carry out this brief as we both have a intrest in this genre and feel we can produce a realist piece of work.

Reason Why I choose this brief :

I have a great interest in watching and reading about reality Media due to the fact you can get a really good sense of what the production is trying to achieve and portray to the audience.When you watch a documentary TV program you can see the reality in the content you are viewing.I like the way simple camera angles and skills are used to create a documentary feel the the product,for example the way you see interviews and action shots of what the focus of the program is builds the suspense of the content is very feel because the shots are not perfect and you have hand held shots within the work.

Task That We Will Fulfill:

Within this brief i want to develop and construct a in depth life like realist 5 minutes of a extract of a Documentary conveying the attitudes and styles of disability.I want to show the life and reality of a given topic.

Hopes And Targets For This Project:

From a group point of view are main ambition is to create a Product/Documtry that altumly produces a very believeable final outcome and fulfills its purpose of repesenting the issue that we finally deside to repesent.

From a Peronal point of view my main goal is to creat a documentry that i would want to watch and actual a visul repestastion of a issue that is close to me.The best way for me to create a realist documetry is by repesenting a issue that i have knoledge about.Also the actual style of the way a documentry produced for example camera angles and editing to create a atmoshepere that fits the issues in the documentry.I think the main challenge will be editing the footage to a standard that could compet with a 21st centry documentrys that a viewer would want to watch.

Factors Of Docmentry That Make Them Recgineable To The Viewer:

The link below is a video i found that i feel is of great help and identifes the factors of which I should be aiming for and is a insight to the types of typical adsects of what i should be incuding behind my thinking towards my product.It exsplains the different elements of the way a documentry is built up, inculding factors such as modes,meaning and the way to put your point across to the audience,this video is of great relevents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxVbP13kLaQ