PPT-Conventions of Documentaries

By Michelle AsafuAdjaye Conventions Handheld camera This is used to make the documentary more realistic and also because its easier and cheaper to follow the action with a handheld camera. Unit 27 . Documentary Formats . An expository documentary is a documentary that exposes a person or a topic. . The codes and conventions of an expository are:. A voice over . Rhetorical questions . Facts and figures . (of a news programme). Studio News Readers, . Field Reporters, . Links To Studio, . Mode Of Address To Viewer. ,. . Interviewing, . Experts And Witnesses, . Report Structure, . Actuality Footage. Studio News Presenters. By Michael . Gomersall. Studio News Readers. ‘Anchor’ the show. Speak clearly. Formal presentation. . - What they wear. . - How they speak. Don’t show emotion. Not Biased. Talk directly to camera. Connor . McCallion. News. Codes and Conventions. Studio news readers. Field reporters. Links to studio. Mode of address to viewer. Interviewing. Experts and witnesses. Report structure. Actuality footage. Codes and Conventions for factual programming. News readers and field reporters. These are the people who present the news to the audience, news readers will typically be dressed in a formal attire and speak in a very clear and eloquent matter, this is to make the news reader seem like a reliable source of information.. Factual programming LO2 . Documentary Formats . E. xpository. An expository documentary is a documentary that exposes a person or a topic. . The codes and conventions of an expository are:. A voice over . : Factual Programme Production Techniques for Television. Intro. Factual TV is a very prevalent genre in TV programming.. . Various different sub genres of television fall under the . overall genre . “The creativity of actuality” . -John Grierson (1926). The aim of a documentary is to report something with evidence.. Documentaries can use narration to anchor meaning.. Have to based on fact and real events. By . Emer. Rooney . Introduction . In the following presentation I am going to speak about the codes and conventions involved in factual programming.. I am splitting this presentation into two parts the first part being based on news programmes and the second being documentary programmes.. Conventions of a Television . Commercial. When creating your . commercial, . there are lots of things that you need to consider and make choices about:. Form:. Narrative or Direct Address.. Style:. Humourous, Dramatic, Parodic (i.e. a parody of something else).. By Eoin Kenny. What are codes and conventions. These are rules that media organisations must follow when making factual programmes.. Visual codes, for example, how the presenter looks, this will include that they must have a suit, shaved and neat haircut. They must have good communications skills, knowledge of the topic being reported and have a string sense of professional ethics.. The Documentary Genre. Origins & Style. Types . and styles . of documentaries. Origins. John Grierson, a key figure in the British documentary school, is thought to have been the first to use the term to describe a film by Robert Flaherty in 1926, which he described as having “documentary value.”. Red, White, and Blue:. The Story of the American Flag. Day 1. Writing Conventions. Red, White, and Blue:. The Story of the American Flag. Journals . Conventions. March 14, 2016. Dear Journal,. . I am the . Tara and . Tiree. , Fearless Friends . Day 1. Writing Conventions. Tara and . Tiree. , Fearless Friends . Common Nouns . Conventions. Conventions. Journals . Conventions. When playing outside one day, you find a hat that, when placed on your head, gives you magical powers. What kind of powers would it give you? What would you do with your powers? .