Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Structure of Documentaries

Visuals- Television is a visual medium, programme needs to be visually stimulating and maintain audience interest
Archive material- Stock footage, Eg- street scenes, open countryside, motorways, city scapes

Historical footage- Extracts from other tv, film, and radio, newspaper front pages

Interviews- Most important part of a documentary, can be held anywhere but mise-en-scene is important in relating the interview to the topic/issue

VOX POPS- (Vox populis) voice of the people, ask one question to lots of people then choose the most interesting or entertaining to use in a programme, it can get a good cross section of the audience 

Voice over- Can affect or alter meaning. It anchors the meaning of the visuals, a voiceover acts as glue, holding the narrative together

Gate keeping- Selection and rejection of information. For inclusion in the text

Construction of reality- By editing and gatekeeping media producers construct an artificial picture of reality

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