PPT-Introduction to Documentaries

Documentaries t ake us where we often do not cannot or even do not want to go they present the lives of people or subjects with whom we may have little in common knowledge about or interest in. AND NATURE. CCGL9012: Media, Politics and the Environment.  .  . A chronology….. Since early… documentaries occupy a fuzzy middle ground between entertainment, education, art and voyeurism . Early film depictions of nature. OUNT WHEN TLY FROM BY 3/31/14. A A \r\f\nreading for those outside the academy, including average ‘foodies.’” WAYNE STATE NEW BOO D. ocumentary. : . a non-fiction . film or TV . program which presents information, ideas or issues constructed for a variety of purposes. Documentaries focus on the real world and usually aim to instruct or to reveal some factual truth about it.. 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 Michelle Asafu-Adjaye. Conventions. Hand-held camera: . This is used to make the documentary more realistic and also because its easier and cheaper to follow the action with a hand-held camera.. Task 2 Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming. By Natasha Curry. Codes and Conventions of News Programmes. Studio News Readers. A studio news readers image must be professional, this means they must be dressed formally.. 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. documentaries, and jazz ensembles; director of musical theatre, opera “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.. By . Nisha. and Liam . Documentary . A documentary is a movie or television or radio program that provides a factual record or report.. “Just as in literature, as the taste has moved from fiction to nonfiction, I think it’s going to happen in film as well. In a way you’re on a serendipitous journey, a journey which is more akin to the life experience… So for that period of time, as you watch the film, you are, in effect, in the shoes of another individual. What a privilege to have that experience.”. 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.”.