Codes&Conventions Documentary

 This is a prezi  showing codes and conventions of a documentary

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Factual Programming

Assignment 1 – Issues in Factual Programming

You must produce a media production textbook chapter on the issues facing producers of factual programming and the impact this has on their work:
You must:

• research the issues facing the producers of factual programming
• accuracy; 

Accuracy is when you research properly as care must be taken over the release of certain contents containing information which may be revealed in the future to be inaccurate, such as medical information or advice, which, if followed, may put people's health at risk.  Where appropriate, the use of context and content information (including, for example, archive branding and labeling) should be considered.

• balance; 

Balance:  is finding the equality of information in certain subjects such as political content in the mass media.
Also balance can be biased in describing a perceived issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence actually supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may even actually suppress information

• impartiality; 

Impartiality is having more of a neutral standing on subjects and not being biased to one side or the other this applies to all output and services such as - television, radio, online.

• objectivity; 

Objectivity is getting your main point across and being open minded about the point being made about the subject at hand
It refers to the prevailing ideology of news gathering and reporting that emphasizes eyewitness accounts of events, corroboration of facts with multiple sources and balance of viewpoints.

• subjectivity; 

Subjectivity is when you are keeping your personal views/feelings out of the issues as this can lead to more of an one sided view on the matter at hand and become more biased.

• opinion; 

Opinion:  Is giving  your view on the subjective belief, or interpretation of facts. An opinion may be supported by an argument, although people may oppose certain Opinions from the same set of facts.

• bias; 

Bias is when an argument is completely one sided and ignores the evidence shown by the other party. Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of all available stories and facts; to report everything selectivity is inevitable. Certain influences on censorship in the media cause many biased views

• representation; 

Representation: Is stereotyping a person/group such as
People, places, objects, events, cultural identities
in a certain way this can be characteristics into certain groups:

• access

• privacy; 

Privacy - Need permission for someone to be in a programmer. You have to respect their privacy when they say they don't want to be seen in the programme but they want to talk about it during the programme as they feel what the programme is all about, is a crucial part of their life.

privacy must be obtained when


Contract with viewer - Stick to the contract written. You have to deliver what is in the contract as that is your deal with the viewers with what exactly they are going to be seeing in the programme.

Mood board!

What's happening today :)

 We are going to put all the footage we have together and start editing we are also going to do some filming in our own time. we are going to 


we are also going to take a camera out for an hour and film some footage of cars passing by for effect.

Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene Includes:

• Clothing
• Props
• Make-up
• Effects
• Room setting 
• Back Drops

The Mise en scene for this documentary won't be set, for example all the clothes and props will already be there because I would be filming natural settings. The make-up will be done on the people who will be in the video . The effects of the video will basically be people walking when we are editing we are going to fast forward the clip and show it in our documentary. The room settings will be making sure that the area is suitable for filming. 
Back drops will be used if necessary and if we need it in our video. All make up will be natural because it will be suitable for our documentary. 
The room lighting will also be important because we want the lighting to be just right so it's suitable for our documentary.

The Mise en scene for this documentary wont be set in any specific way, we are going are doing this because  its a documentary on anorexia and the props will all  ready be there, so we don't need a lot of props. 

Plenary

 27.02.12

 Period 3 -

Today we were put out of our comfort zone & placed into a class of year 8 students who were currently studying English & as part of their work they were told to make a documentary on something that they felt strongly about, were there to help them plan out how they were going to do make this documentary in the time set  by their teacher which was 1 week, so it was difficult at first trying to understand what point they were trying to get across to their target audience. 

Period 1-2

Made up some questions and then we decided to go ask people in our media class what their opinion's where on annorexia.

 

Pre-production (Planing documentary)

                                            Plan

We had some ideas on what are documentary should be about and we came up with a  couple of ideas 

• Anorexia 
• The media shows people size 4-6 , influencing kids, adults and mainly women to become a size six is the best size to be.

• little do people know that with their new size comes a increase in health problems 

Aim- The whole reason why we want to do a documentary on anorexia is to help raise awareness on this on going issue that is affecting many people in the world of today. to also tell the audience that anorexia has increased in the past 10 years.

anorexia does effect an individual but can also effects there friends and family, anorexia can lead to a lot of depression and other various situations that they are faced with.

T.V.- fashion: everyone is influenced one way or another by either what they hear/see or experience, so this affects there whole intake on what they think about anorexia and looking slim is the best possible to look beautiful.

Magazines are also a big impact on why anorexia is increasing, they show pictures of  super slim women posing for the front cover and if they are not on the front cover the pictures are sometimes in the middle of the magazine so either way you come across the pictures,and give articles on looking good. 

The Internet - this is a major part of why anorexia is increasing. adverts on the internet for example Facebook on the side of the web page, they advertise things like "how to become a size 6 in just 6 weeks", this makes people want to know more and because more and more people are weight conscious they click on the advertisement and start to learn new ways of losing weight, don't get me wrong losing weight is not a problem but the amount people lose that is the problem. YouTube also advertises most of its stuff on the videos people watch, it does exactly the same thing Facebook does but in a different way; through video.

Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.

Anorexics have an intense fear of becoming fat. Their dieting habits develop from this fear. Anorexia mainly affects adolescent girls.

Our Final Plan:

Anorexia ------> Basic Facts -----------> Personal ---------> Facts from a professional