Monday 30 January 2012

Documentary Analysis

http://www.4docs.org.uk/competition/view/349/Please+%26+Thanks+%28+Best+Version+%29

 The purpose of this documentary is inform you about people's views and opinions of  the  phrases "Please and Thank" and how people respond in public places. It also wants to get you thinking about young people and how they behave when communicating with other people, such as saying please and thank you.       

The main audience is mainly men, women and elderly people in the community.

The mode of this documentary observation, by maintaining the observational mode, the director allowed the subject to forget the presence of the camera and behave more naturally, thereby letting the audience get a better sense of how he/she really feels.

Documentary Analysis

http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/5/King+of+Laughter


The purpose of this documentary is to make people realise that laughter is good medicine, the film maker uses personal example of him using laughter as a way to make himself feel happy during trouble.

This is an Interactive Documentary because it interacts with people, hoping to change something either their views, opinions, feelings and many more. 


The mode of this documentary is participatory, this is because there is direct engagement between film maker and subject. The film maker is also apart of the action and follows the aim of the documentary.

The audience of this documentary is mainly everyone who is not happy, the main audience is Walsall due to it being reported as the unhappiest place in the UK.

Thursday 26 January 2012

Concrete Circus

 This documentary is all about free running, skate boarding and biking it is based in all kinds of terrrain such as mountains, hills, flat ground, factories and many more.

its about a group of athletes, from all places like london, paris, wales and many more. they come together to produce a smashing movie with millions of views.

They are  a lot of camera shots like close ups, medium shots, extreme close up, long shots and many other to interest the audience with a lot of creativity.

They have a narrator who explains their background and life style as youths and how they started to develop their skill in the streets.

Movies, directors and interviews.

way back home= movie 12 milion views

danny mckaskill

hans rey
paul blue joseph

storm volume one= movie
 
mark skaterboarder
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skate regeneration= movie

brett novak

style bicycle= movie

professor longhair= movie

stu thompson

Monday 23 January 2012

Documentary Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djx0OrHHi6E

My documentary is going to be 'Football's greatest'.It's about Ronaldo de Assis Moreira also knows as Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho was born in the city of Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. 

The purpose of the video is educate people of his life style and his skill in football. He has won the FIFA World Player of the Year twice in a role in  both 2004 and 2005.

The codes and convention of this video is the the interviews, camera shots, news reports, images, music and blog posts of the video.

Archive material:
Still images require camera movement to keep the audience interested in the documentary
There is a variety of relevant material: newspapers, photographs, website, video footage.

Narrative voice :
holds the narrative together, standard English, usually calm and clear speech. Gender and age is sometimes relevant depending on the topic.

Camerawork:
Varied shot types and movement to keep the audience interested
Stationary camera (tripod)
Handheld camerawork is used for actuality footage where necessary
Establishing shots are used
Pan and zoom are used when filming still images – slow zoom