My media product follows the codes & conventions of the documentaries, print adverts and radio trailers in many ways. Firstly I believe the 3 texts do not challenge or develop the codes and conventions, I have tried to follow the codes and conventions of each so that I produce a professional looking text. Firstly I will compare my documentary with a real documentary.
As you can see I have got a screen shot from my documentary (on top) and a professional documentary (The Devil Made Me Do it) from youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkf11iER1Kw&feature=related . This illustrates my use of framing whilst filming my interviews and shows I tried to follow the Codes and Conventions as closely as possible.
• Interviewee eye line upper third of screen.
• Interviewee positioned to 1 side of the camera, interviewer is positioned on the opposite side of the camera to the interviewee. CU or MCU, following rule of thirds.
• Background of interviews – reflects subject or person, as you can see from my interview you can clearly see my interviewee works in a school from the desk, files and suite he is wearing.
Next I will look at the use of Graphics.
The only time I have used on screen graphics is for interviews. I have used the same font size, colour and font throughout my documentary.
• The graphics appear on the opposite side to the interviewee and both the professional production and mine follow this convention.
• My graphic anchors who the person on screen is and the relevance to the subject whereas the professional production doesn’t follow this convention.
• Both productions have used a simple easily recognisable font.
• In my production we have the top line of the graphic as a larger font size than the bottom line and thus following convention.
Finally I will look at my Print Advert.
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