Wednesday 20th July - Cover lesson

You will be in Y6 so can use the computers to add to your blogs. Please complete the tasks on the Blog Tick List that I gave you last lesson (also on my blog) and make sure that everything is included on your blog in as much detail as possible.

I would also suggest googling other A-level blogs and see if  they have included anything on their blogs that you could use. Type something like 'A2 Documentary Blog' into google and see what you can steal!

I will be checking all your blogs to see how you're getting on. Please email me if you need anything or have any questions.

Good luck! Have a brilliant summer! I'll see you in Year 13!

Codes and Conventions of a Documentary

• ·   People being interviewed, framed in a medium shot, medium close up or close up.
• ·    Interviewees framed to left or right of the screen. To show a range of shots when having more than one interviewee.
• ·   Framing with the rule of thirds. Eyeline is a third of the way down the frame.
• ·   Interviewees looking at the interviewer, not the camera.
• ·   Mise en scene, the background reinforces the content of the interview.
• ·   Interviews are never filmed with the light behind, the light is always in front of the interviewee.
• ·   Questions the interviewees are being asked, are edited out.
• ·   Cutaways are put into interviews for two reasons: 1. To break up the interviewand to illistrate what the interviewee is talking about. 2. To avoid jump cuts when questions are edited out
• ·   Cutaways are either: 1. Archive material 2. Suggested by something said in the interview and therefore filmed after the interview. 3. Sometimes aspects of the interviewee are filmed with another camera, such as extreme close ups of eyes, mouths and hands and used as cutaways
• ·   Graphics are used to anchor who the person on screen is and their relevance to the topic of the document.

Your blog tick list

This list must be completed by the end of the double lesson on Wednesday 20th July

Your ideas

Documentary forms/modes explanation      

500 word proposal for a documentary         

Example documentary ideas                       

     

Documentarians

Louis Theroux research                              

Michael Moore research                              

Ross Kemp research                                  

Nick Broomfield research                            

Countries

Two examples of UK documentaries     

Two examples of U.S. documentaries         

Modes

Reflexive documentary                               

Poetic documentary                                    

Observational documentary                        

Expository documentary                             

Participatory documentary