In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Personally I think my documentary Stadium watch: The Amex uses actual conventions to ensure this while I was doing preparation with  group we watched different types of documentaries so we could see the different ways that they used camera angles, edits, and the way they do an interview. By following these documentaries we have more chance of the documentary being more successful. Our team watched documentaries linking to the topic of football; we did this because it gave me and my team a better understanding on what areas we should cover within Stadium Watch documentary.

The documentary we made has all the common features that you are likely to see in a documentary. Here is a list of the common features we used:

1.  Interviews
2.  Short clips
3.  Voice overs
4.  Opinions
5.  Facts
6.  Statistics
7.  Camera angles
8.  Edits

It was important that we followed the above to make sure we didn’t go off the common documentaries that we have watched within our research. Within the documentary we have 2 interviews from staff and players or Brighton and Hove Albion. We have loads of shorts clips which fit but are short and snappy. This was done so that we could fit as much information/clips as possible in the time we had; which was roughly 5 minutes long. 

Mostly on the shorter clips we used voiceovers this was because it was easier to do mini recording then stand in front of a camera for a few seconds which can look boring at times. Throughout the documentary we ask staff/players their views on the stadium this was helpful as it gave different opinions on the built stadium. When doing research for the documentary we decided to that it would be important to include facts/statistics about The Amex. 

After looking at a lot of documentaries the group noticed that a lot of camera shots/angles were used; this is something I believe we have achieved throughout the 5 minute long video. Shots include: Long shot, zoom, establishing shot, fade, fade to cut, fade to black, focus and many more. We also believed that editing a lot of the documentary could our documentary look fake; so we decided to do small edits such as text over video. This made our documentary look like the typical documentary that you see on TV. We also used Facebook to communicate with our group member, this is one of the most popular social network sites in the world.